What would you change about your past

[instormdrains]

If you could what age would you time travel back to and from there what would you change about your life. Is there anything you could change so you would be less suicidal. I would go back to a young child and manage my relationships better be less cringy. Be more outgoing and prevent my parents from being divorced. I matured and grew a lot from my mistakes but I wish I never made them id like to be who I am now without messing so many things up.

 

[ScaredCutter]

id change who i was back in elementary school. broaden my range of who i talk with, hang out with others, stop jumping to conclusions. i would change how i looked at a situation between me and 2 others, i wish i didnt say anything about what happened as it was just, til this day, nothing burger. i would tell my dad to not go to work to prevent him from getting PTSD too.

 

[SoulCage]

Difficult to say.
This proverb comes to my mind:
"The grass is always greener on the other side."
There are many decisions that lead to my current suffering.. now my brain tries to convince me with images of a better life that certain decisions were bad. But those images are just imagination... It's impossible to know if it would have been better this way.

For example... I was living in another country, with a lot of pros and cons. I decided to move back to my home country because I the cons made me extremely unhappy. Now back in my home country I despise all the cons from here and wish I would have never returned. But what if I have stayed in the other place and remained thinking that returning home is the better choice?
Now with lots of work I could return to the country that I left, but would I be able to live with the cons again?
Feels like always choosing between shitty circumstances and I guess staying is the lesser evil.

My point is... Maybe you could have ended up in better situation... But you don't know for sure. Your mind is playing tricks on you. Ultimately, I think we can never make the right decision. There will always be something that we see as "this could have been better".
What do you think about my opinion?

 

[instormdrains]

What do you think about my opinion?

I think this is the best and most productive way to look at things. If I went back and changed everything I might get into a new variety of trouble. Its better to look to what you can do now instead of past hypotheticals. If I was homeless id want a dollar and if I was a millionaire id want a billion. No matter what life we live we'd probably have regrets and desire more then what we have.

 

[Forever Sleep]

My Mum wouldn't die when I was 3. I'd be fascinated to know how that life would have turned out.

 

[FuneralCry]

The only thing I want is to make it so it's like I never suffered in this dreadful, torturous existence at all, to be enslaved in this evil world filled with endless cruelty and torture is a punishment to me and all I see as beautiful is the peace of non-existence, I see so much beauty in being permanently unconscious where this existence I just always saw as a mistake is all gone and forgotten, I see it as an abomination to be enslaved in this existence where there is no limit as to how much one can be tortured, it's agonising to think of suffering for decades longer just to face the agony of old age, all I want is true peace, I wish for no more pain and no more suffering.

 

[LonelyPrince]

If you could what age would you time travel back to and from there what would you change about your life. Is there anything you could change so you would be less suicidal. I would go back to a young child and manage my relationships better be less cringy. Be more outgoing and prevent my parents from being divorced. I matured and grew a lot from my mistakes but I wish I never made them id like to be who I am now without messing so many things up.

Honestly I'd just go back as a child and call cps on my parents.