From a "Pre-Institute Survey" for Teach for America.

[joy_of_abigail]

If I could live my life over, I would change almost nothing.

What would you say?

Comments

[joyfulmelody]

I'm always totally mystified by people who can say that. Either they have a really bad memory or a charmed and privileged life. I would change almost everything. Not everything, but almost everything.

[ringsandcoffee]

I would change some things in my walk with God (as in get off my duff and figure things out and do them earlier) but even the bad things I wouldn't change. I feel like every experience has made me who I am, and taught me so much. Sure, many things sucked at the time, but they made me stronger in the end.

Oh, I'd not have waited to get my driver's license (a month after I turned 17 instead of 16). Independence is bliss!

a few wandering thoughts.

[joy_of_abigail]

My choices and their results--what I learned, even from my mistakes--are so intertwined that I don't think I could change anything without becoming a very different person. While that's not a bad thing, it's disconcerting to consider being anyone but who I have become, conflicted as I may be--so I put that I "agree" on the survey, but not "strongly agree."

Thanks for responding--it just struck me something so personal, that I have thought of often but never answered outright. I wanted to know what others thought. As for your first comment--I would have discovered how to pluck my brows for senior pictures! How to use a straightener!

And, well, okay, I would have gone to my senior prom.

And skipped Liberty.

But, you know...like I said...all that learning...I would be much less of a critical thinker if I had not been plunged into this uber-conservative, bubble-like world in which I knew I did not fit. So, again, I guess I wouldn't change anything...much.