If you could go back in your own timeline

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If you could go back in your timeline and change a personality characteristic or talent would you do it?

[This question has been edited and may yet still not be acceptable to many. It was meant more to be a philosophical question, I suppose.]
 
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too personal a question.
Plus we look forward.
Regret profits no one.
 
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Maybe you should start this off and answer for yourself first. 😉

If it is a personality or talent, there is always the possibility that it can still be changed. I was thinking of saying that I wish I was less of a procrastinator, I could have accomplished a lot more than I have. Still, it’s not too late, (looking forward) to change that.
 
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Question not acceptable? Too personal? Looks okay to me. 🤷

I would go back in time and be kinder, more respectful, and more attentive to others.

However, then I would be a totally different person. It seems that my errors make me who I am. This is strange.
 
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Hmmm. Nope. I’ll trust what I was given.

There have been many science fiction plots with exactly that premise. As Random points out, you end up being not you.
 
May be if you were to re-word your question and ask which time line would you prefer to live in?
 
If there was a red button in front of me to change X at the time I was 5, 10, 15, or 20 or whatever the age may be…I would be greatly tempted to hit that button and see what happens. It’s possible that it could cause very great changes in the outcome of our lives where we sit now.

But doing that action is basically saying, I don’t like, or I really doubt, or think I know better than divine providence. Maybe I’m just having one of those days.

Take a personality trait, for example, such as shyness that I and many people had since we were children, I think not having that trait would make giant changes in where we are now.
 
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I substantially altered the original question after a valid critique.
 
And sometimes that is exactly what we want to be. Truth be told.
 
Hmmm, I guess I am the only one that would change anything then. :hugs:
 
I don’t think so. I think we benefit from our strengths and weaknesses. Partly because we grow in the sense that we turn weaknesses to strengths - this gives us more complexity, humanity, but that our weaknesses are fundamentally part of our personality, who we are. Introversion vs. extroversion, etc. Just deal with the hand you were given. I think we get it for a reason. I can’t tell you how many times I realized (sometimes years later) that some weakness or failure ironically led to or sustained good, strong elements in me or my life as well.
 
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I have recently been watching a television series called “Timeless”. And it came to mind to ask a related question.

The pilot was a trip in time back to just before the Hindernburg went up in flames on May 6, 1937, killing 36 people, and what the ramifications of intervention would mean for the present in people’s individual lives as well as the grand scheme of things.
 
I think the problem might be too many lives could be affected by changing the course our own life has taken…a ripple effect that would go on till the end of time 😉
 
Well, I suppose that movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life” with Jimmy Stewart will always be a classic in old movies.
 
Yes.I think every human interaction is of great importance,I realised some years back I’d never want to undo all that has happen because only God knows the importance of where we are and at right now?
 
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