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Z3ni · 18th Oct 2009, 11:46 AM

Ok.. If you could change time and go back into ANY time in your life, what when would it be..

For me it would be primary school so .. I could redo everything, save my dad and be happy today :P
But then again I probably won't have found EC.

mattypants · 18th Oct 2009, 11:49 AM

i always wanted to see what it would be like if i hadnt seen a certain automobile on a particular day... no, its probly not what youre thinking

GhostDog · 18th Oct 2009, 12:02 PM

Hmm. Freshman year of college, I think. For 2 reasons:

Make myself not stay in that stinky athletic dorm just because it had single-occupant rooms - suck it up, stay in the artsy dorm (even if it does mean, GASP, a roommate!), and actually effin' SOCIALIZE. So I might not have ended up having nightly panic attacks and moving back home a semester later. -.-

Also, I remember walking through that sea of student organization booths on the "Hey Freshmen! Join our clubs!" day, when I longingly stared at the GLAD booth and debated going over there but decided against it since I was kind of walking with people (and I "wasn't sure" about myself anyway, even though I kinda was >.>). Shoulda just said to hell with it and gone over to say hi. =P

Though, if I were going to time machine myself back anywhere and live through it all again, with all of my current knowledge and experiences in tact? I'd probably go back to just after I'd finished puberty (because who the hell wants to do that twice?) so I could get in another few good years of youthful craziness before Responsibility set in. =P

x2x2x2x2y2 · 18th Oct 2009, 12:05 PM

I would tell my dad to go to the docters and get checked. He died of an anurism(sorry I can't spell it) when I was 11.

Black Cat · 18th Oct 2009, 12:18 PM

I'd destroy it, or hang my laundry on it like a treadmill. I fully believe that every single thing that happened to me over the years has happened for a reason. I may not know why or how some of the things that have occurred in my lifetime will help me later, but I wouldn't change anything.

I guess for the sake of the conversation though I'd go back to between the ages of 8-11 and try much harder to prevent my mother from letting my step father move in with her. Either that or I'd go back to age 6, so I could spend some more time with my grandmother before she passed away.

Étoile · 18th Oct 2009, 12:36 PM

I'd go back to when I was 8. I'd try to be more social than I was growing up, play a sport, and enter a few clubs. Maybe I wouldn't be so lonely now.

starfish · 18th Oct 2009, 02:00 PM

Would I want to go back and relive a certain period of my life? There were good times and bad bad times. I have lots of great memories and generally enjoyed it, but I wouldn't go back and do it again.

Now I would like to live in a different era. I would love to go back to the mid 70's and catch the microcomputer revolution. That is my my old west.

haelmarie · 18th Oct 2009, 02:05 PM

It sounds cheesy, but I wouldn't change anything. Everything I have done has is some way made me a stronger person.

AtomicCafe · 18th Oct 2009, 02:13 PM

I wish I could say I wouldn't change anything since I'm happy with where I am now, but... I would.

I'd go back to when I was a little kid and first saw a friend being abused. I'd have ended it there.

18th Oct 2009, 03:04 PM

Go back to when I was 11 when I first thought about men and said to my self you are gay. I think I would be a better person as I would be my self instead of this fake and have so many failed relationships with girls! plus I would of got support from my mum before she died in 2006 as I really don't have an adult that I can go and speak to.

Apocalypte · 18th Oct 2009, 03:04 PM

I'd go back about 3 years and stop myself from ever deciding to play World of Warcraft... I never thought it was possible to get that addicted to a game until I played that.

littledinosaurs · 18th Oct 2009, 03:30 PM

I wouldn't change anything.
I like where I am, I don't regret what's happened.

carrie90 · 18th Oct 2009, 03:31 PM

I'd go back to when I was 15 and tell myself not to date that psycho boy (he who shall not be named) I wouldn't change anything else about my life though

Jack2009 · 18th Oct 2009, 07:12 PM

No regrets so far

But if I must... Go to year 2003, and be open about my sexuality. That make me around 11.

ZachO · 18th Oct 2009, 07:20 PM

I would go back and spend more time with my dad when he lived near me.

That is probably my one regret in life, that I wasted the opportunity to spend time with him, and now we are more distant than we should be.

Greggers · 18th Oct 2009, 07:34 PM

I would go back to grade 6 and choose NEVER TO FUCKING ATTEND THAT DAMN PIECE OF SHIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL and go to public school instead, no matter how mad my parents would have gotten over that.

18th Oct 2009, 07:45 PM

I would do 2 things:

1. Spend a day with my father so I would have gotten to know him.

2. (shallowish) I would have touched the cowboy back everyday in 10th grade insted of telling him to stop out of my own insecurities. ugh.

djt820 · 18th Oct 2009, 07:50 PM

I would of been nicer to alot more people.

18th Oct 2009, 07:56 PM

In reality, there's only one thing I'd be able to change and be willing to do so, but I'm gonna keep that to myself. I really don't think humans should mess with time in real life. For the sake of the thread, I'll say that I'd go back to my eight-year-old-self and tell me what it means to be gay. And then tell me to hold onto my friends. I think those two things would have helped me immensely, as I really didn't even know that there was another option besides liking girls.

ok455 · 18th Oct 2009, 10:37 PM

I would go back to my senior year in 2007 and went to college when high school ended instead of working at shitty dead end jobs.

18th Oct 2009, 11:46 AM	#1
Z3ni Ec's ADD Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gayish Out Status: My Twin Location: England, Manchester Posts: 3,080 Join Date: Oct 2008	Time Machine Ok.. If you could change time and go back into ANY time in your life, what when would it be.. For me it would be primary school so .. I could redo everything, save my dad and be happy today :P But then again I probably won't have found EC. __________________ Through pain, lies success.

18th Oct 2009, 11:49 AM	#2
mattypants Chacun à son goût Full Member Gender: male/garçon/hombre Orientation: Gay Out Status: Some friends Some family and the lesbians Location: Los angeles, Ca Posts: 2,733 Join Date: Oct 2008	Re: Time Machine i always wanted to see what it would be like if i hadnt seen a certain automobile on a particular day... no, its probly not what youre thinking __________________

18th Oct 2009, 12:02 PM	#3
GhostDog is Spartacus. Full Member Gender: Female Orientation: MAGICAL. Out Status: The hiiills are aliiive with the sound of muuusic! Location: DFW area, Texas Age: 24 Posts: 2,503 Join Date: Apr 2009	Re: Time Machine Hmm. Freshman year of college, I think. For 2 reasons: Make myself not stay in that stinky athletic dorm just because it had single-occupant rooms - suck it up, stay in the artsy dorm (even if it does mean, GASP, a roommate!), and actually effin' SOCIALIZE. So I might not have ended up having nightly panic attacks and moving back home a semester later. -.- Also, I remember walking through that sea of student organization booths on the "Hey Freshmen! Join our clubs!" day, when I longingly stared at the GLAD booth and debated going over there but decided against it since I was kind of walking with people (and I "wasn't sure" about myself anyway, even though I kinda was >.>). Shoulda just said to hell with it and gone over to say hi. =P Though, if I were going to time machine myself back anywhere and live through it all again, with all of my current knowledge and experiences in tact? I'd probably go back to just after I'd finished puberty (because who the hell wants to do that twice?) so I could get in another few good years of youthful craziness before Responsibility set in. =P __________________ <3 Kirah, who may or may not be made of delicious candy (and the lesbians)

18th Oct 2009, 12:05 PM	#4
x2x2x2x2y2 PARAWHORE!!!!!! Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: ~I like guys~ Out Status: Everyone, pretty much. Location: Wonderland (and California, USA) Age: 18 Posts: 3,971 Join Date: Oct 2009	Re: Time Machine I would tell my dad to go to the docters and get checked. He died of an anurism(sorry I can't spell it) when I was 11. __________________ "THINGS ARE LOOKING UP, OH FINALLY!!" "I believe that there's hope buried beneath it all and...Hiding beneath it all and... GROWING beneath it all!!" -Paramore ...and the lesbians

18th Oct 2009, 12:18 PM	#5
Black Cat As Seen On Hoarders... Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: This cat is out of the bag - I mean closet Location: Pennsylvania, with the cows Age: 21 Posts: 2,391 Join Date: Jun 2009	Re: Time Machine I'd destroy it, or hang my laundry on it like a treadmill. I fully believe that every single thing that happened to me over the years has happened for a reason. I may not know why or how some of the things that have occurred in my lifetime will help me later, but I wouldn't change anything. I guess for the sake of the conversation though I'd go back to between the ages of 8-11 and try much harder to prevent my mother from letting my step father move in with her. Either that or I'd go back to age 6, so I could spend some more time with my grandmother before she passed away. __________________ "Your life is an occasion. Rise to it." - Mr. Magorium

18th Oct 2009, 12:36 PM	#6
Étoile He ate my heart Full Member Gender: Garçon Orientation: 95% Gay, 5% Cheesecake Out Status: Out to everyone Location: The Peach State Age: 20 Posts: 1,575 Join Date: Nov 2007	Re: Time Machine I'd go back to when I was 8. I'd try to be more social than I was growing up, play a sport, and enter a few clubs. Maybe I wouldn't be so lonely now. __________________ "I love that lavender blonde; the way she moves, the way she walks, I touch myself, can't get enough."

18th Oct 2009, 02:00 PM	#7
starfish This space for lease. Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: I like guys Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Hippie Town, Alberta of the US Age: 31 Posts: 2,108 Join Date: Nov 2008	Re: Time Machine Would I want to go back and relive a certain period of my life? There were good times and bad bad times. I have lots of great memories and generally enjoyed it, but I wouldn't go back and do it again. Now I would like to live in a different era. I would love to go back to the mid 70's and catch the microcomputer revolution. That is my my old west. __________________ All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. --Thomas J. Watson

18th Oct 2009, 02:05 PM	#8
haelmarie it's ok to be afraid Full Member Gender: No. Orientation: No. Age: 18 Posts: 767 Join Date: Oct 2009	Re: Time Machine It sounds cheesy, but I wouldn't change anything. Everything I have done has is some way made me a stronger person.

18th Oct 2009, 02:13 PM	#9
AtomicCafe Gay by Day, Dyke by Night Full Member Gender: Female Orientation: Asexual Lesbian Out Status: Out, Loud, and Proud Location: Tucson, AZ Age: 19 Posts: 208 Join Date: Oct 2009	Re: Time Machine I wish I could say I wouldn't change anything since I'm happy with where I am now, but... I would. I'd go back to when I was a little kid and first saw a friend being abused. I'd have ended it there. __________________ That child has several options: staying in the closet, suicide. And then one day, that child might open up the paper and it says, "Homosexual Elected in San Francisco." - Harvey Milk

18th Oct 2009, 03:04 PM	#10
Jiggles Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Time Machine Go back to when I was 11 when I first thought about men and said to my self you are gay. I think I would be a better person as I would be my self instead of this fake and have so many failed relationships with girls! plus I would of got support from my mum before she died in 2006 as I really don't have an adult that I can go and speak to.

18th Oct 2009, 03:04 PM	#11
Apocalypte Ytse Jamming. Full Member Gender: Female Orientation: Lesbian Out Status: Out to everyone Location: Dublin, Ireland Age: 27 Posts: 2,217 Join Date: Oct 2008	Re: Time Machine I'd go back about 3 years and stop myself from ever deciding to play World of Warcraft... I never thought it was possible to get that addicted to a game until I played that. __________________ "I like my beer cold...my TV loud...and my homosexuals flaming." - Homer Simpson

18th Oct 2009, 03:30 PM	#12
littledinosaurs J'essaie de Parler Français! :] Full Member Gender: Garçon Orientation: Bisexuel Location: Nouvelle-Angleterre. Age: 21 Posts: 2,351 Join Date: Sep 2008	Re: Time Machine I wouldn't change anything. I like where I am, I don't regret what's happened. __________________ Âllo Là

18th Oct 2009, 03:31 PM	#13
carrie90 The square root of 4 is rainbows Full Member Gender: Female Orientation: Gay Out Status: everybody really Location: Originally Montana but currently San Fransisco Age: 21 Posts: 1,327 Join Date: Feb 2009	Re: Time Machine I'd go back to when I was 15 and tell myself not to date that psycho boy (he who shall not be named) I wouldn't change anything else about my life though __________________ I empower my Cheerios to live in fear by creating an enviorment of irrational, random terror -Sue Sylvester

18th Oct 2009, 07:12 PM	#14
Jack2009 Banned Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Not out at all Posts: 686 Join Date: Feb 2009	Re: Time Machine No regrets so far But if I must... Go to year 2003, and be open about my sexuality. That make me around 11.

18th Oct 2009, 07:20 PM	#15
ZachO Banned Gender: Male Orientation: Don't ask. Out Status: Some people on the internet, but that's it. Posts: 10 Join Date: Oct 2009	Re: Time Machine I would go back and spend more time with my dad when he lived near me. That is probably my one regret in life, that I wasted the opportunity to spend time with him, and now we are more distant than we should be.

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Greggers Sunshine & Optimism ...also Angels. Full Member Gender: Theatre Queen Orientation: Disco Sticks Out Status: Everyone and a few more Location: BC, Canada Age: 21 Posts: 3,528 Join Date: Dec 2008	Re: Time Machine I would go back to grade 6 and choose NEVER TO FUCKING ATTEND THAT DAMN PIECE OF SHIT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL and go to public school instead, no matter how mad my parents would have gotten over that. __________________ "It's a male duck."

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Legnaj Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Time Machine I would do 2 things: 1. Spend a day with my father so I would have gotten to know him. 2. (shallowish) I would have touched the cowboy back everyday in 10th grade insted of telling him to stop out of my own insecurities. ugh.

18th Oct 2009, 07:50 PM	#18
djt820 Brutally Honest Regular Member Gender: Male Orientation: DICKS EVERYWHERE Out Status: Like A Cock Slapping Your Face Kind-of Out. Location: SoCal Age: 19 Posts: 1,282 Join Date: Feb 2009	Re: Time Machine I would of been nicer to alot more people. __________________

18th Oct 2009, 07:56 PM	#19
Drizzt DoUrden Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Time Machine In reality, there's only one thing I'd be able to change and be willing to do so, but I'm gonna keep that to myself. I really don't think humans should mess with time in real life. For the sake of the thread, I'll say that I'd go back to my eight-year-old-self and tell me what it means to be gay. And then tell me to hold onto my friends. I think those two things would have helped me immensely, as I really didn't even know that there was another option besides liking girls.

18th Oct 2009, 10:37 PM	#20
ok455 EC Addict Full Member Gender: Male Orientation: Gay Out Status: Some people Location: Can't tell L!O!L Age: 24 Posts: 437 Join Date: May 2005	Re: Time Machine I would go back to my senior year in 2007 and went to college when high school ended instead of working at shitty dead end jobs. __________________ http://209.50.252.116/smile.gif