If you could return to any period of your life, what would it be? Or is the current phase the best?

[marmar]

My reason for the exercise in esoterica: I'm having one of those days when I so long to be in college again......

[mike_c]

1. I simply stayed in college...

...by crossing to the other side of the lectern. And no, I wouldn't trade my current life for any earlier portions, frankly.

[EFerrari]

5. That was my plan but life disagreed.

I like this time. It's less anxious, more productive and has a better sense of humor.

[MercutioATC]

2. Can I move a year or so into the future instead?

Starting a new business on top of a full-time job and a younger girlfriend has me worn kinda thin. I figure things should calm down a bit in a year or so.

Returning to an earlier time? Not on your life. Things are better than ever :)

[BOSSHOG]

3. My Freshman Year in High School

was probably my best year ever. I lived in a Dorm, fell hard in love for the first time, had a great bunch of friends and all this was in England. This was before I met my wife which I dearly love but that Freshman Year was awesome.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. I wouldn't return to any other period of my life

except maybe my hippie days, which really were a good time. But I'm happy now being 63 with a husband who loves me and treats me well, my kids grown and living their own lives, and my life relatively comfortable. I don't take any of this for granted, but for the time being life is pretty good.

[fizzgig]

6. i'm pretty happy with where my life is now

there was a two month period back in 2002 that was fantastic, but i would only want to go back to it if i had my husband with me :)

[sinkingfeeling]

7. I'll go for 1966 at this place. This time I'll skip getting married and giving up my scholarship.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. "Youth is wasted on the young." Mark Twain

[timeforpeace]

9. College, definitely. Best 27 years of my life.

[virgogal]

10. My early working years---post college,pre marriage.

[dustbunnie]

11. I'd go back to childhood if it meant I could do it all over again.

Plus, I know exactly where my SO grew up and lived, so I could find him even sooner than I did.

But college was an excellent time. It was deliriously excellent in fact. I'd live in that time period for about 20 years or so. :)

[AlienGirl]

12. Summer of 1998

Married, with a toddler and a new baby, healthy, spent most of the summer playing...the period from then through 1999 was the last good time.

Tucker

[PM Martin]

29. Yoy have had no good times since then?

[Occulus]

13. I'd go back to when I was 19 so I could avoid the tragic mess things have been ever since.

Sorry to piss on your thread, but I have some rather heartbreaking regrets.

[asjr]

20. OMG I wish I could go with you!!!

[PJPhreak]

14. I think I'd go back to 1977....

I'd like to be this guy again.



With one difference...I want to drive this again.

[LaydeeBug]

15. I would go back to my senior year in high school and RUN THE OTHER WAY from the guy I was dating

anybody dating someone ten yrs younger than him has a serious problem anyway, but I was too lovestruck to know any better.

[MercutioATC]

19. That's a pretty broad-brush statement.

I'm sure some do, but I certainly wouldn't put them all in that category.

[LaydeeBug]

25. Let's do the math, Mercutio...I said I would go back to my senior year in high school

and run the other way from dating a guy that was ten years older than me. It was a huge mistake on my part. It is legally RAPE on his. And although the 17 yr old girl would have argued at the time, when I turned 27, I took a look at some high schoolers and realized the unvarnished truth. I *had* been raped. It's just that simple.

If you find it permissible for a minor to screw around with someone much older, you might benefit from another forum.

[MercutioATC]

30. That wasn't your statement. The exact quote with which I take issue is :

"anybody dating someone ten yrs younger than him has a serious problem anyway"

[Odin2005]

36. A good friend of mine, 20, has been dating a guy 11 yrs older than her since she was a senior in HS

perfectly wonderful couple.

[CTyankee]

16. I went BACK to college after many, many years and it was the best time in many ways.

I was stimulated intellectually, my little grandkids were at that adorable age, my mother and brother were still alive and functioning well. That was a brief moment in time...soon after I finished two degrees, my grandkids got older and things started to fall apart with my brother and my mother's health. And my job situation turned very sour...

[Scout]

17. 5th grade, age 10

and i'd stop there.

if i couldn't stop there and had to do it all again, i wouldn't, i'd stay where i'm at.

[orleans]

18. two months ago--when my mom was still alive. n/t

[Rebubula]

22. I know the feeling...

:hug:

[Brickbat]

21. If I *had* to, at this point, I'd go back to age 20-25. Awesome years.

But I'm happy where I am now.

[Cleita]

23. I would like to go back to the sixties.

I was in my twenties. I had a great job. I met my future husband. The music was great. The times were exciting because there was so much change going on. Women threw off their bras, shortened their skirts and demanded equal rights and pay. The hippie movement was in it's prime. Our Presidents were real Democrats. There was no DLC Republican Lites then. Really, those were the good old days.

Then we got Richard Nixon, who ruined it all. :-(

[laughingliberal]

24. I would once have said I would not want to go back to any other time in my life

Now, I would say any period of my life from after I was able to get away from my parents up until 2 years ago would be preferable to today.

[williesgirl]

26. The part where my husband was still alive.

[RedCloud]

27. Hours before any major lotto drawing!

[Incitatus]

28. I'm tempted to say late teens/early 20s, but I'd have to say I like where I am now.

I had a lot of fun back then, but I really had no direction. When I look back, I'm lucky I'm alive and not in jail.

I'm engaged now and will most likely be having kids in the next few years. Sometimes I long for those days again, but I realize I have to move on.

[dysfunctional press]

31. do i get to know then what i know now...?

if so- take me back to toddlerdom...

[pruple]

32. Go Blue

I came back to Ann Arbor to relive my college life through my kids. Got my son in UM and my daughter on her way.

[dixiegrrrrl]

33. Of all the chapters in my life, this is the most relaxing and most financially secure.

The 70's in college in Seattle were great. I get very nostalgic for that decade.
The last 11 years with Mr. D. have been what I was always wanting, I will "choose" the present.
It just gets better in that regard.
On the national front, things seem pretty bad. I will always worry about my grown sons in this
corporate climate.

[RagAss]

34. 8 1/2

Summer lasted for 20 years .... and Santa was real !

[Odin2005]

35. 1999. 7th/8th grade. The year before the world fell off the rails.