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Offline Cman

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If I knew everything I know now ten years ago, I would embark on a storied ten-year career as the world's greatest sports bettor.

Didn't you see Back to the Future 2?

And I would be the world's greatest stock trader...
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Offline WeMadeIt17

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Well i am only 19 cant say 10 years but i wish, I would have taken High School more seriously and Basketball. Quit my junior year after my most productive year of shooting 50% from beyond the Arc and 95% from the Free Throw line, I averaged 13 points coming off the bench. I quit because i felt like the coach had a personal vendetta out of me. So dumb but what can you do.

Offline RAcker

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I hate this game..I play it every time I drive past a high school football practice.
I think the same thing about HS basketball.  With what I know now, I would have hit the weights more in the offseason and would probably have averaged a triple double.   ;D

I would have also avoided associations with certain people that I knew would not be a part of my future...but I digress.

Offline boscel33

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cmon, i'm in my mid forties!  can i have twenty years back?  if so, i stay in the NAVY and be retired by now!
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Offline Reyquila

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Ten years back again? The only thing that would help is that I would be able to hit my golf ball a little farther. lol
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Offline nickagneta

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Ahhhhh. Personal reflection.


Personally, I like to look back to learn from my experiences and to learn what I can do differently to make my next ten years better. I find looking back and wondering what I could have done differently to have made my current situation better, counter productive. But that's just me.

Offline PaulPierce34G

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Let's see...I'd be 15 if I'd gotten 10 years back... I'd definiely have taken high school a bit more seriously...wouldn't have gotten arrested in 2002...wouldn't have dated my first girlfriend & lastly would have gone to medical school after i was accepted, only to give it up for a chick I dated for a yr and a half because she said she couldn't wait for me...

Offline pearljammer10

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Tens years back...Would have started playing the guitar three years earlier... But the biggest thing I would have done...

Create Facebook and Youtube.

Offline Roy Hobbs

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Hmm...  ten years ago I was in my senior year of college, about to enter law school.  I would have probably went to BU over BC Law, since they were offering me $45k more in money.  I chose the higher ranked school, only to see BU move up the rankings and eventually surpass BC.

On a sad note, I would have spent as much time as possible being good to my mother, as she only had five months left before passing away.

I wouldn't have wasted six years of my life on my ex-girlfriend.

To lighten things up, I would have put a substantial wager down on the Celtics' championship chances in 2008, when there were something like 75-to-1 odds.

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Offline GreenFaith1819

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What would you do differently?

Wow..good discussion. My wife and I have these kinds of discussions from time to time. We came to the agreement that we are happy for whatever has happened to us - good or bad or otherwise. We say this because we've been married a little over 10 years now, and Any little course change prior to that time and we both agreed that we'd have Never met....

As for myself, looking back I would have loved to learn to play the Sax...maybe taken Music class in High School? I probably would've been really good at it..would've received a scholarship to attend college because of it...if I went to college I would've never joined the Navy..never met my wife.

I suppose I can still learn to play it, though.

All the other stuff I wouldn't change, because it's made me wiser, but not perfect though.

Offline blake

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I'm 26 now so that would put me back at age 16.

In High School I would actually take a different track than most...I would have realized my physical limitations in HS and not cared about sports.  I could have spent those countless hours of training on learning accounting/finance.  I started a lawn mowing company in HS but if I would have given it the same time effort as sports, there is no telling where it would be.  That is just an example of many different businesses that I could have started up.

In College:   I would have partied a lot more.  I partied quite a bit, but I would have partied a lot more knowing that some required Anthropology class would be a waste of money and time for a Financial Advisor.  I could have spent less time preparing for an exam trying to get an A, and partied more and taken the B.

Post college:  I wouldn't change anything.  Married a wonderful gal.  I work for myself in a great career.  Great friends.

So maybe I wouldn't change anything.  If I worked all that time at my lawn business and didn't play sports I might not have hung out with the same people and ended up in a different fraternity or no fraternity at all.  I met my wife at the fraternity house.  Met most all of my good friends at the fraternity house. 

Offline Bahku

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I would move to someplace WARM!

I would put every bit of my energies into my music, (and very little else), instead of trying to please others by being something that I wasn't meant to be.

I would spend more time on the ocean sailing ... just me and the sea.

I would invest in a very large telescope.

I would make the most of every moment spent with my loved ones who have passed away, and seek out more time with them.

I would not waste eight years of my life with a woman who values monetary gain over true abiding love.

Instead of running from the rain, I would turn my face to the heavens and feel it's sting ... and thank God for the opportunity.

I would take my best friend seriously when he told me he would kill himself if his life didn't improve.

Sorry ... can't think anymore.

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Offline Kwhit10

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Well there are things I would change but then changing that would have subsequent consequences.  Such as, I would of gone to a cheaper undergraduate school, but if I had done that I would never have met my future wife.

I probably would have definitely spent less money on my car endeavors.  Yes it was a lot of fun having a very fast car, but looking back I'd rather have saved all that money for more important things.

Other than that I'm not the one to regret things.

Offline houseonfire09

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I'd be 9 years old. (sigh)

I'd try my best to stop 9/11, but I doubt an 11 year old would be taken seriously.
I would have stayed up to watch game 4 of the '04 ALCS because I would know that I would be going to game 5 after school the next day.
Would have tried to not be as hopelessly shy around girls.
Would have gotten my dad to place $1000 on the Pats winning the Super Bowl after Bledsoe got hurt.

Other than that, I'm OK with what happened the past decade, although not everything was changeable.
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Offline Brickowski

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I would be a billionaire.