Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
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Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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I often times wish I could go back to the past and start life over. I'd have the tremendous advantage of knowing all the mistakes I made in the previous life.
😂🤣😂🤣 I never, and I repeat, never want to go back to any point in time of my life, and live any of it over again. Especially not with the knowledge that I have now. I’m 60 now, I’m over the hump, and I am ready to move on, and be with Jesus.
Sometimes I do also. I feel like my many mistakes have made me who I am today. I’m the type that has to learn the hard truth from personal experiences. If given the chance I’d probably eat healthier starting way back in my twenties and get physically active. Not just exercise but hiking and enjoying nature in the fresh air. Most have the mentality they won’t grow old and have physical ailments. Boy if I knew what I know now. I believe people like me ruined ourselves by being sedentary. My grandparents didn’t get to the place they couldn’t do physical labor or hiking etc till the late 70s. Mid 70s you wouldn’t be surprised to see my grandma lifting cinder blocks moving around the yard (southern choice of landscaping border). That generation never got soft.
Or you can start over from the present !
I’m trying little by little 😄
It's mainly the physical injuries I want to undo. All I'd have to do is go back to around 1995 before the first injury.
I know how you feel. Like when i wrenched my back about 10 years ago, and soon after that I tore a ligament or something in my right hand, giving me trigger finger. But even more than that, for this past year I have reflected greatly on my life, about the joys and heartbreaks I had. And the heartbreaks endured outnumbered the joys while I was growing up. If I could be allowed to live life over, as like a presence in my young mind that could take control when necessary and cause me to be more mature, I could have been a better person to others, and perhaps kept friendships I wanted to keep.
Same with me. Careless falls and especially chronic pain was my downfall. If I could I’d of started working out in my twenties.