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Kitchen Table Kibitzing ~ 9.11.23 [1]
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Date: 2023-09-11
I had a long and boring drive last week, over an hour and I started thinking about going back in time. What if I could go back to when I was 18, but know what I know now? It would be so nice to be back in a body that was in shape and didn’t have aches and pains upon waking. I thought a lot about what I would do differently.
I thought mostly about myself. Being raised on Star Trek I think I had the Prime Directive operating in the back of my head. I imagined there were rules about preventing disasters like Reagan being elected, 9/11 and the out of proportion war after. I didn’t even go there.
Not sure why I picked 18 either, I was monumentally stupid back then, maybe 28 would be a better age to slip into. I think either age would be hard to slip into knowing what I do know. I thought of all the things I would do differently.
#1 would be to get a degree in Veterinary medicine and then animal behaviour instead of Child Development ffs! I think that would solve my poverty problem.
#2 would be to move to Canada either back when I had connections and spent a lot of time there or at least by the time I was 30. Being a DVM would certainly help me get in at any age.
#3 is that I would start Yoga and the practice of Mindfulness much earlier.
When I was 18, I was married. If I slipped into that body, would I still love my husband? I think I would, but I would come with the knowledge of our divorce, how would that effect things?
I don’t have a lot of major regrets. I would still do all the drugs I did, I quite enjoyed them, but I wouldn’t drink. I drank kind of to fit in and wasn’t very good at it. OMG, and I would dress better! Jeans and T shirts, jeans and T shirts, enough already. And NO high heels, ever!!
I think I would write some books, not using the ideas of books I’ve read but write some of my own, I’ve always wanted to do that. I would start therapy sooner too.
I might jump into learning about computers sooner, but I don’t know, I wasn’t interested in tech then and I’m not now. One thing I would for sure do is join Daily Kos sooner; I’d aim to get the user number 8.
What would you do differently?
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