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Kaykay
Member
01-21-2004
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 10:39 am
no - i'm content with the past 
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 10:47 am
It was so long ago I can barely remember so I guess my answer is Yes
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 10:50 am
No I'm quite happy with the way things have turned out and wouldn't want to change that.
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 11:17 am
No way. I couldn't wait to get out of there. As it was, I graduated early just so I could escape. 
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 11:21 am
oh my heck, would it be fun! i was an emancipated adult at age 16 (legal was still 21 at the time) and i had my own apartment when i was a senior. i might have inhaled, taken more risks and been a little less serious... oh wait. i was the class clown and always had to pull my desk out into the hallway. i went on the radio station as 'captain america' because i had a captain america shirt, and the station got so many calls that one night, the owner found out and the dj got into trouble because a 'captain america' was not licensed to go on the air. dj would not give me up, though! and he ended up marrying my best friend a year or so later! they are still married after 30 years... i would remember to take tp to a kegger in the woods, i would have a designated driver, i would have a cell phone rather than a dime in my pocket for 'mad money'. (if i got mad at a date, i would use my dime to call someone else for a ride home. of course, there were not usually pay phones in the woods, or the abandoned runways or behind shasta dam!) i'd know now that i probably could have gotten a lot of help to pay for college, since i made 65 dollars a month. the counselors then, at least at my high school, never told me there were ways to get financial help for college. if they had, i'd be an ob/gyn or pediatric oncologist today. yep, i'd go again, and this time, i would date that cute boy behind his girlfriend's back because i found out later she did the same to him. not knowing it at the time, i was loyal to her. man, that guy was hot...he's probably bald, stout and missing 2 front teeth now, but he was hot at 17 OH YEAH, I'd do it!!!
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Spitfire
Member
07-18-2002
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 11:21 am
no
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Emeraldfire
Member
03-05-2003
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 11:31 am
If I could go back with the knowledge, wisdom and confidence I have today, yes, I would definitely go back!
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 11:43 am
No Way - I was very happy when it was over the first time. I am done with school work....well my own that is..I have kids now with homework so thats enough for me
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 11:51 am
yes, i would not have skipped my junior year to graduate early. i was too dang serious. tabby - i too was an emancipated minor. i would have had an entirely different life, i'm sure of it now. it's like that movie "mr. destiny" that one event changed my whole life. one decision would have a profound impact on my life.
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Lyn
Member
08-07-2002
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 12:17 pm
Nope, you couldn't pay me enough to go back to school!
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 12:27 pm
nope - each decade of life has been better than the last for me and I wouldn't go back to any other decade - no way, no how. I am a believer ( like Maya and Oprah say ) life is best in your 50's. That's when you know who you are and can scrap the rest. It's all just so much garbage.(Plus I am retired on a guaranteed pension with COLA. Who would ever want to leave that!!!)
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 12:33 pm
Yes, there were a few things that I would change.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 1:04 pm
I already voted...so don't count this okay..but I just had to add a couple of things. I was sitting here thinking about going back to that time...and then it hit me like a ton of bricks. The ten classmates that I have lost would be there! I would be able to take the time to know my cousin Tom's best friend Pete, who would die in Vietnam in 1969. I would be able to spend more time with little nerdy Eddie and laugh at all his corny jokes instead of just some of them. I would be able to lend a more sympathetic ear to good Catholic Margaret who so deeply loved the only Jewish boy in our class in spite of her parent's refusal to let them date. To have lost them both to suicide pains me even to this day. And espeically this...I would find a way to make sure that my friend Pete, who was one of my best friends since the fourth grade, knew that no matter what...he would always be my friend. Then maybe just maybe, he wouldn't have been so afraid for me to know that he was gay. He knows now...but he spent too much time hiding it and fearing the worst. And of course, to spend some time with all my friends who haven't I crossed paths with since graduation. I was truly blessed to have had so many friends. (Gosh Lori! You made my cry!)
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 1:07 pm
(Gosh Mary...ya just made me cry too!) (((Mary))) You're a sweetie. 
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 1:11 pm
Like Landi, I skipped my senior year to graduate early. I'd already taken every advanced course they had, so other than a fourth year of phys. ed., there were no courses left other than to go backwards. Unlike Landi, I would not want to go back, even knowing what I know now. It would likely change everything in my future, and I'm pretty darn happy with where I ended up!
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 1:36 pm
I wouldn't change anything. I totally agree with you Karuuna. =)
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Nickovtyme
Member
07-29-2004
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 1:37 pm
I would do it again. I would go back an not be so shy, in fact, I would do all my years in High School over again. I was terribly shy and self-conscious with very low self-esteem and didn't have much luck with the gals because of it. My home life was crazy I spent most of my time drinking or getting high because I felt that made me more outgoing. I would study more so I could be a better writer and spend more time finding myself, instead of waiting till I was 25. I would take all the angst I was filled with focus it on positive instead of negative things. I wasted my Senior year.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 1:54 pm
karuuna, i got lucky in the fact i went freshman, sophomore, senior. i had the same kind of course load as you had. but it was hard going to college at 16. and i didn't know anyone in my graduating class. all of my friends graduated after me. other than holly, she's the only good thing i've had in THIS future that i cherish.
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 1:57 pm
absolutely not! (although, the lack of responsiblility would be nice!)
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Kady
Member
07-30-2000
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 2:00 pm
yes...i loved school. my best friend would be there. i would live it up a little bit cause i was a real goody-to-shoes. 
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Froggiegirl621
Member
02-14-2003
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 2:07 pm
Absolutely! I loved high school, and there are a few things I would change from that point of my life until now.
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Sillycalimomma
Member
11-13-2003
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 2:13 pm
Oh, Can I jump in! I didn't have a senior year. I was in a HUGE hurry to get out of High School and start my life. I took the GED when I was 16. IF my friends were all there with me then yes I would like to go back, but if it was the same scenerio (as far as who i would be in school with) then no.... So, to make it easy on poll results I will just say no.

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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 3:41 pm
i said yes because it would be fun. it didn't mean i would want to change my entire life since. i would just do it again and enjoy it more and maybe be more educated and make a big difference in sick peoples' lives. but i would not change my dh or kids. they would have just a wife/mommy who also worked a lot of hours in a hospital! and could you imagine knowing what you know now and being there? i could make a fortune as a psychic LOL 'yeah, some peanut farmer becomes president' 'the vietnam war will end in two years' 'reality shows will be the future hot shows and we will have to pay for something called cable' 'new orleans will have to evacuate the entire city in 33 years' 'computers that take up entire refrigerated buildings will be small enough to carry around in a small bag and everyone and his brother will have one' etc.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 3:54 pm
Kind of like "Peggy Sue Got Married", eh Tabby? I loved the part when she told her Algebra teacher that she knew for a fact that she would never, ever need to know this stuff...and when she tried to explain panty hose.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Thursday, November 10, 2005 - 4:41 pm
right, marysafan! by the way, i had a friend from high school who played the pregnant gal in that movie. her name was sigrid wurshmidt...she died of breast cancer in her 30's. what a waste of a very talented and fun lady. she always had the leads in the school plays.
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