Hey Pandas, If You Could Change One Thing In The Past, What Would It Be? (Closed)

If you could go back in time and change just one thing, what would it be?

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Make sure a certain Adolf is accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

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Freya the Wanderer

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Hammerfairy 4 months ago

And I'd give Putin so much Lego's to build his "empires" he would not turn into such violent and paranoid liar.

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I would have fought my mother harder on her insistence to keep my dad on life support after his accident. He had told me, point-blank, when I was a kid that he did NOT want to end up like his own mother - disabled and needing care, needing someone to change his diaper, etc. After his accident my mom ignored his wishes and kept him on life support. He was in a coma for 6 months. He survived, but had catastrophic brain damage. He lived for another 21 years bedridden, with a feeding tube, in diapers. His two daughters had to change him and wipe his àss. I loved my father, but he did NOT want to live that way. The worst part? The day he was dying in the hospital, 21 years after his accident, my mom refused to stay. She said she "couldn't handle it". I stayed and held my dad's hand as he died. I was the only one who stayed with him. THAT is something I don't regret or want to change. But I should have fought harder for it not to happen in the first place - when the doctors said my dad had massive brain damage after his accident, I should have fought my mom to take him off life support. It would have saved ALL of us two decades of pain and suffering watching my dad slowly get worse and worse.

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17points

LakotaWolf (she/her)

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Vicki Wizard 4 months ago

I'm sorry Her...If only your Dad had put his wishes in writing or asked to go to hospice - I'm so very sorry.

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Prevented Donald Trump from being born!

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Odin Schmidt

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Vicki Wizard 4 months ago

He scares me spitless...I pray he won't become a Dictator - that not only would be disastrous but would put America in great peril.

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Head back to 2006.

Buy a plane ticket to Australia and then do everything I could to make sure Steve Irwin didn't make it to work on September 4th.

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14points

By Deleted User

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Vicki Wizard 4 months ago

I miss him to this day - and when I see a manta ray with people around it, I feel nervous.

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I wish I had studied harder and also, never picked up a cigarette.

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Julia Cargile

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I believe that you shouldn't change your past, only your future. The only thing that I would change though... I would say to my father more often how much I loved him and I would hug him way more...

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12points

Sneaky Little Peach

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Danish Susanne 4 months ago (edited)

I read once that a nurse told that this is exactly what most persons regrets when they are close to death, that they didn't say"I love you" to someone they loved.

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I'd prevent my mother from taking that horrible retail job that's eating away her physical and mental health and will probably end in her total collapse. It was supposed to be a temporary thing and sounded like a good idea at the time, now it's like 15 years and she has developed some kind of Stockholm syndrome in the sense she seems to value her work more than herself and her well-being (a textbook example of old-school, self-destructive work ethics).

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Luke Branwen

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Jessica SpeLangm 4 months ago

Is she at an age where she can get a different job, not necessarily better paying, just a better company to work for?

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I'd prevent Roman Emporer Theodosius from declaring christianity to be the official religion of the roman empire.

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Rayne OfSalt

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censorshipsucks 4 months ago

was it theodosius or was it constantine?

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not doing meth for the first time

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Neb Skram

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#10

I would write a different Bible.

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trevor

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Julia Cargile 4 months ago

Why?

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#11

My best, my worst and all between made me to who I am today. When I look in the mirror I see a guy I can easily live with. So: Nothing. Just do it all again.

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ZGutr

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#12

Vote earlier in life.

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Hollerfloozy

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Danish Susanne 4 months ago

It is never too soon, but often too late

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#13

Should have learned guitar or drums instead of saxophone🎷...

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Who cares what I think, but...

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Danish Susanne 4 months ago

Who says you cannot learn guitar or drums now?

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#14

That when the Europeans first visited Africa, they met them with open arms and didn't see them as savages and inferior, but as people, human beings and thus, slavery never became a thing. Which also prevented racism now.

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Ozymandias73

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Esme Weatherwax 4 months ago

Europeans didn't invent slavery. Slavery was in place for thousands of years before and happened across the entire globe. White Europeans were taken as slaves by the Arabian countries long before Columbus landed in America. The word slave comes from Slav - Eastern European people that were enslaved before the transatlantic slave trade. If you want to go back in time to stop slavery the you need to go way back

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#15

I would have asked my girlfriend out sooner

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Rhodri Terrell

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Dumb teenager 3 months ago

I probably wouldn't have asked my ex out at all

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#16

done enuf d***s to get up the courage to either myrder my abusive drunken dear old dad or to auff myself or both hell cannot be any worse than these too many years I've lived

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Paisley Nougat

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cerinamroth 4 months ago

You can have a future without either of those things. Find somewhere safe, get help, listen to what you need. You are worth it. The best revenge is a future well lived.

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#17

If I change my past, then first I achieve my goals. But this is not possible

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David miller

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#18

I'd set up a play date for "The Donald', Putin and all the S.Korean upper echelons who have access to creating worldwide catastrophies to get caught in an inescapable room and find a person with honor -- where, I'm not sure - to handle all the nonsense with wars which are always for selfish reasons. I would love to rid the term "Collateral Damage" from our vernacular. I just hate the meaning of that word...

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Vicki Wizard

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