The Ultimate Vampire Resource and Directory

If you can change past, would you do it? And what parts of your life would you change?

Just been thinkin' a lot about this...
So, I would like to hear what all of you have to say

Thanks

i am who i am today due to events in the past... change those events and you change yourself...

i wouldn't want to change anything because i'm perfectly happy with who i am now... and i wouldn't be who i was without a few previous experiences

great example of change... Ace Rimmer ;)

The past is the past.I have made it why change it.

I would change the past in a heartbeat. I'd change the "friends" I've made, people I've been with, and people I've hurt. I've made a lot of mistakes in my life... You can't dwell on the past though, only learn from it....

there are things that i would want to change, i think everyone does but as people have been saying if u change the past u change who u r today, which for some people might be an acceptable risk, but even though im not happy with myself, i would not do it

Well since its really not possible this is slightly meaningless

So with that said

Yes if I were to go back and change but one thing it would be to have spent the money on what I needed to do at age 18 instead of how others wanted me to spend it.
The cascade effect of that is quite impossible to imagine though

MEW

Part of me would like to say yes to this question, I would, I would make it so I never lost my mother, and that I didn't have the physical problems( IE. messed up heart,, ears, and back) I was born with. Maybe some of the decisions I've made through life.

But another part of me says that no I wouldn't like to go back, because I've come to realize that everything, good or bad that I've been through in life has made me the person I am today. Someone who can laugh about things when they aren't looking so good, who can laugh AT themself for the crazy and sometimes stupid things she does. Someone who's learned to live with and bear the pain she does have, and much more.

I've often wondered, as I'm sure many others too, the same thing, but all in all I'd have to say that I lived and learned and for it I'm still glad that I am here on this earth. >;^}

no....never... i would not be where i am today or think the thoughts i think today if it were not for the past no matter how harsh it was.

Luv u Dami :x

For me, there is a few things that i would change esp knowing what i do now. I think things would have been different but seeing how i can't change the past, i have to settle for how things are now until i can change them again.

i used to think about changing it but now i realize everything i want to change has happened for a reason. Now i wouldn't change a thing. I found my soul mate and nothing is gonna change that.

I would not change my past... I make sure I learn from it and I use that knowledge to make my present and future a little brighter!

It's almost unfathomable to imagine how a minute change in the past would greatly affect every other aspect of my life. It would be a domino affect which i may not enjoy.

I am a malleable piece of clay, each event, person, and situation of my past have molded me into who I am.

I think i'd change a lot.. The way my life is at the moment sucks, and there's not much I can do about it.
Perhaps if some things in the past did change, my life would be better.. Or worse. Well, can't change the past, so I just have to keep on living this way.. Waiting for it to end..

Yes. There is one thing I would change. Just one moment, one breath in time. Everything else I would keep the same, and hope that one moment made the difference it was supposed to.

The past has made me who I am today.
Even if I could change it, I don't think I would.........there are very bad things there, and to change some, might not change them all. And also I might not be the person I am now.

I transformed myself because of my past, thats why I am the phoenix now.

No... my past is part of me and i wouldn't change it for the world, even though it wasn't the best of lives, i learnt from it and grow to be the person i am now, which im quite happy with...

changing the past is pointless...
changing it would change you and the present...
and not only 4 good...
did u see the 'butterfly effect' movie, with ashton kutcher?
i could change details, he hope 4 good and discovers he or his friends becomes asshole or get crippled or get cancer...
so: no, i wouldn't change past...

i have a wonderful girlfriend. strangely enough i met her through a friend who's known her a long time. over 5 years. a friend who i've known for longer than that too.

me and my girlfriend both went to the same college. i used to see her around and think she was gorgeous, and my mate would stop to talk to her and i'd think "oh hurry up stu..."

if somebody had told me she was to be my girlfriend two years down the line, i'd have told them to get lost...

if i'd have talked to my girlfriend two years ago and started this relationship then. it'd be entirely different. we both have had experiences in those two years that make us who we are today. without those experiences that relationship may never have worked then.

me and my girlfriend have talked about this. and came to the conclusion that:

this is the way it's happened, there's nothing we can do but live it.

things might have been done differently, but that would change the outcome of more things than you can imagine

don't linger on the past, otherwise, you don't know what you might miss in the future.

Yes I totally agree with you.. But who knows?! Maybe would be better, maybe not...
You never know what's going to happen tomorrow...

And 'butterfly effect' is a great movie; made me think

And sorry for my English... :-/

i would never change the past for the past is what makes us who we are today. and why change that, to change it would be cheating and erasing so much of you. just accept who you are and whats happend in your life.

i agree with lenore, the past made us, so, if we like who we are now, why change it? for all we know, we would all be watching PBS and singing barney songs *feels like puking for mentioning it*

the past has made me who i am today. good or bad, all those experiences have served a purpose. i have grown and learned, so why would i want to change something that made me the person i am today?

i wouldn't change it for anything in the world.

no regrets.

the things I have lived are who I am....if I were to change any part I may change who I am and where my life has gone.....
I think I would stay as i am....

Well I would like to be like most and say I would ni change anything but I can't. I would love to change hitting a van at 45mph head on. Other then that what has happen to me in the past has made me who I am some good and bad.

If you changed the past things would still happen in the future that you want to change. It would destroy everything if everyone could just keep changing it. Say I was fishing, and I didn't catch anything, I'd change the past so I'd catch hundreds of fish, but if I could do that I think fishing would really start to get boring. I know some of you prolly think it already is though lol

I've learned from everything I did in my past so I wouldn't change a thing.

I dont think so. Even though I had some bad experiences and so, I dont want to change nothing, because it all taught me something and influenced me in a special way. Im completely satysfied with the person Im now.
Except of my new haitcut....its so awful.
Ok now, Im gonna kill that bitch who did this to me =(

the past is the past let dead dogs lye,,learn from the past its who defines who we are

I dont know i think i would like to change somethings ( save someone ) But if i did how different would i be? how different would my life be?

i dont see any point in dwelling on somthing to the point of wanting to change it the past is the past

that didnt sound right

why did i say that

god that was stupid

what the hell was i thinking

RIGHT

I'd retract my statements

Dear try to save space, at first make up your mind and then write it to one post !!!

Thera he was making a point about not going back to change the past. If you read those again you will understand, that with each post he made a decission, then in each post made a retracting statement about going back and changing his mind.

Thanks Dami....
You know Im sitting in school for 8 hours now...Im going a bit stupid lol
*wiinks*

i would love to change the past but you can't so i don't worry about it.

exactly

Changing the past would be a selfish act. If I changed my past it would affect everyone's future from that moment, and that would be too big responsibility for me. And if I changed my past maybe you would never find out this site!. ;)

...and *to diamon* in this case you didn't try to change yor past, you tried to change your post! lol

After all the shit the heartache the pain the despair and SLIGHT lil deprssion I had I would not change the past ever it makes me who I am today and I love who i am I am proud :)

I believe int he idea of parallel universes for different decisions that we make in our lives, and although when I look back I think "if I had done this or that instead, then I would be better than I am."

However, thats not necessarily true, as if I changed one thing I could end up someone totally different, or as Gorey said, Ace Rimmer (the last person Id EVER want to be!)

Good point Zlee :)))

And thanks again ;)

but Ace was soooo much better than the Rimmer we all knew...

unless you mean, you would hate to meet a more succesful version of yourself. i'd hate that. would probably drive me mad

i'm me... there is no other me... and changing things in the past would change me and i wouldn't be the me that i am now, and i'm pretty happy being me and happy with those that like me...

so there :P

ha ha diamon,... no [edit] in here :)

and if I could change my past and change some things in life that I think I did bad, nobody gives me a guarantee that I wont fuck up something else, though it would be cool if you could just save your position, like in games!

i would try to stop my uncles death thats what messed me up alot and still hurts me when i think of it...i would gladly give up my life for him

Hold On!!!!!!

If you change the past.. then you would not know about the presant you live in now or the past that you know of now... Changing your past, would wipe out anything you are today and know.... So if you did, you would not know about what you had done before... So all of you saying i would not want to change who i am now.. thats just a little odd.. jumping on the band wagon of respectfulness even.. come on own up.. i know you are out there.. cowering behind the elders!!!! So the people who say they would not change anything.. must of had perfect lives, for them not to want to change it... I find that hard to swallow.. I say it loud and i say it proud !! I WOULD CHANGE THE PAST.. at the end of the day.. if you are metn to do something or meet someone IT WILL HAPPen no matter what you do to not make it happen FATE!! (deep breaths)

Totally agree with you Dhampir
I'm saying it once more, you'll never know what will happen....
Maybe good, maybe bad, but you will never know is it better or not cuz you cannot tell how it was before
Kisses Dhamp

hmmm that is really true once y ou actusualy think abbout it

I would really have to say no cause it could mess things up now. What might seam like a good idea probaly wouldnt be.

If you change the past you would change you so you wouldn't be you anymore, but who can say that you could change to a better person then you are now? And at one moment that new you probably wouldn't be satisfied with all the things he did in his past so he would change the past again and so on... ? Show me one person that is completely satisfied with his past!

if i could change the past i would change sooo much. on questions i had 2 options on i would pick the opposite and on some events i would change what i did or what i didnt do. but yes is would change to past if i had a chance to.

right..the past defines us...so while im not exactly happy now, and i wouldnt trade my past heartaches just to feel at least the illusion of happiness..ill get over them...i think...
that didnt sound right...
the past is like vagas for me...what happens there stays there...you cant change the past and thats all there is to it. all you can do is deal with the present and hope your future will be better..
there, that sounds better.. i hope it helps..

ahhh Dhampir... you say if we don't want to change anything that must mean we lead perfect lives... not neccessarily.

maybe we are afraid we 'd go back and screw things up. if we were shown the consequences an action would take it might help. but i personally wouldn't want to change something knowing it'd make me worse. but to change something you'd have to (by common sense and crazy time physics laws) forget what you are now to go back and edit yourself. but then you wouldn't know what you were and you'd just live it out... probably doing the same thing as you did.

Personally, i think perfect is an under-used word. one could argue that because your life isn't the greatest, it is perfect because it is your ONLY life. maybe we are living perfect lives?

come on. where would we be if bad things NEVER happened. we'd never learn anything about other people, we wouldn't learn about each other. we wouldn't fear.

i would change the past, if i was shown the outcome and that outcome was good... and even then i wouldn't be so sure because i may miss out on a learning experience that has taught me so much...

Bad things will always be there, you cannot live without them..
And again you couldn't posiblly know, if things are screwed or not, maybe now you're afraid but...
But there's 2 options:
If you (somehow) know that you're changing past you would definitelly make some things right..
And if you don't you would posiblly live the same as you did before.. But again, who knows?!

And what means PERFECT?

new i should have bought those stocks in microsoft and apple .....

well, do you consider us idiots? try something less obvious! ;)

yes i would. i would change everything i have done since i was 13. there is alot i regret and wish i could make better.

didnt butterfly effect show how much fun changes things can be?

i am the sum total of everything EVERYTHING that has and will happen to me

so i will stay me

i would change soo very much and to hell with the consequences......i would love to see an alternative to this life ..but knowing me i would end up in the exact same place ...LOL

Who can say that I already didn't changed my past, affected you and fucked up some parts of your and my life? Huh?! It would be whole another life so you wouldn't know that you changed something at all...

if you change the past then you may not be where you are now, you can't change the past it is what has made you to who you are today

No.