What good is 'hindsight' if you can't go back and change things?
969726
I have absolutely NO IDEA!!!!!!! Maybe so you can warn others not to make the same mistakes you made.....If you can't be a good influence the best you can do is be a horrible warning!
924682
If you can't face up to the past, how could you see past it to the future?
523641
no you made an mistake, but hey you cant change time, so i suggest that you make up the time and make the best out of it, and DONT DO IT AGAIN! have respect
784754
=unfortunately for people like that they do not realize it until it is too late and they can't go back in time.
537998
foresight is the ability to see something before it happens whereas hindsight is to realize you should have acted different once something has taken place.\n\nIn hindsight it would have been better if George Bush had the foresight to avoid the Iraq war so as not to have caused the death of military personnel.
91011
Why on earth would you want to make wrong ones?  Every decision you make, even minor ones, shapes the course your life is going to take from then on.  Bad decisions can (and often do) affect  you for years after you've made them.
249575
Things look better with hindsight, this could explain it
1107733
Nope- Not a chance- Everything I went thru happened for a reason- I have learned so much through my 25 years and would not think of turning back time on anything-\nI have been raped, cheated on, divorced, lied to, fired, and each thing has made me a stronger and more determined person!
518994
I don't think there is anyone alive who wouldn't change something or many things in their life if they could. However, the reality is that we can't, so we must live our lives with the knowledge we have learned from each regret. All things happen for a reason. Even though we may hate somethings about our lives I am sure there are awesome things that have come out of those terrible ordeals. For instance anyone who has gotten married only to get divorced, but had children, would say that having their children was the best thing that ever happened to them. Even though they had to go through it with that old hag or that jerk! So, we can complain all we want, but instead I would like to challenge you to thank the old hag and the jerk for the greatest gift of all......your kids!
1009516
it's better to regret something you've done..then to regret something you haven't done...\n\ndo you want to say "what if" all your life!!!!
928934
If you regret it, you want to change it and to change something would change who you are. I have no regrets in my past. Everything you go through in life makes you who you are. Makes you stronger, more understanding, tougher and less ignorant. There are things in everyone's past that has been rough for them, but the experience of it has made them walk away with something more. It's part of life. Everything in life has a purpose.
256114
I think it's beacause we're human and we've all made mistakes. So when we see a chance to stop someone else from doing things that we regret doing, it's instinctual to try to alter their path in life as a sort of pennance for not altering our own. It's like getting a second chance to see how things would have turned out for us if we'd made different choices in life. And I think the only time someoone is ready to hear our advice is when they say, "Can I have your advice?"
767787
I wouldn't go back in time....I could mess things up!\n\n=)
879317
ignore them.  you made certain choices in your life, as we all do, and as a result people perceive you in a certain way.  now you're living your life in a different way, and those that are open-minded (read:  worth your time) will shift their perceptions accordingly.  those who are clinging to your past mistakes will eventually be cycled out as you meet and form relationships with people that respect you enough to pay attention to who you are and what you're doing NOW.  \n\nyou can't control what other people think of things you've done in the past, and you can't control how fast they let go of it.  efforts to 'change their minds' will only bring more attention to the past by making it the focus of your actions in the future.  what you CAN control is who you surround yourself with.  choose carefully.
1002273
I like now, I love now!\n\nIt would be nice to relive your life maybe if you could edit out a few bits first, or if you could retain the memories and try different approaches, like say yes to things you previously said no to...it might turn out worse but that would be the risk you take I guess.
559773
Firstly, don't overly concern yourself with the concept of fixing the past.  As a numerologist, Norman Shine, stated in one of his books: "Worrying about the future is just as escapist at living in the past."  In other words, if you spend all of your time worrying about the past, then you are wasting the present time and will have a very bleak future.\n\nIn regards to theories of changing the past, that's a theoretical astrophysics debate as well as a good philisophical debate question.  Either:\n\n1.) You can change the past and affect the direct future.\n2.) You can change the past, but the now new future is the future of another/parallel universe.\n3.) Somehow the laws of nature will prevent us from preventing the past/future (depending on your origin of time).\n4.) You change the past and cause a paradox and at that very moment the universe ceases to exist (according to Dr. E. Brown on Back To The Future)\n\nMy advice is to try and correct what is going on in the present to help your future.  You cannot change the past (that I know of), but you can change the future.  It may not be easy, but it is more possible than a quick-fix time machine-changing past patchwork.
764406
Stop thinking just about what you should have done or what should have happened and accept what has happened...everything has a meaning behind it. Use experiences to learn from. Basically you just need to see what you have done and accept it and just know that there is no other way it goes or will go. The past has happened and that is the way it will be.