question
In the style of plot-hole ridden '90s sci-fi serial, Quantum Leap, if you could 'leap' into yourself at any point of your life, what would it be and why?

No answers involving lottery results or other gambling-related activites
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sat 23 May 2009, 23:58, 15 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Take myself back 5 years
Not get engaged. Make a few things in life very different from how they are now.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Sun 24 May 2009, 0:02, Reply)

Am I allowed three?
First, I'd return to 24 December 1990 and go sick when I signed up as a volunteer from my unit to go to the Gulf. I'd then be able to go out on November 5th and not utterly, utterly crap myself, and avoid crapping myself whenever a car backfires.

Second, assuming the first was not available, I'd return to 1987 and work really, really hard in my chemistry classes - thus getting the A I needed at A-level to get myself into medical school.

Finally, I'd return to September 2006 and meet my second ex-wife again but instead of obfuscating and diminishing areas in my past that caused me embarrassment and shame, I'd have completely 'fessed up about them and (hopefully) she'd have been as comfortable with them as she said that she was when we broke up.

I love you, G.
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Sun 24 May 2009, 0:06, Reply)

Talk to her
That is all
(weekirst23 Is broken! Silly ice. Silly High heels!, Sun 24 May 2009, 1:47, Reply)

Idon't know.
Haha!
( Cawl, Sun 24 May 2009, 0:06, Reply)

I think
I'd go back to University and not pass up the very nice woman who was throwing herself at me in favour of the slightly nicer looking woman who was never going to touch me with a barge pole.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 24 May 2009, 0:18, Reply)

Wouldn't change a damn thing about my past.
Was it rough? Hell yes. You've all read my stories.
Do I have a great life now and love the person I am? Yes!

Do I love living day to day without any need to check my future? Yes.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Sun 24 May 2009, 0:24, Reply)

I'm going to have to agree with you on this one.
Mostly because if I changed anything about my past, I'd be running the risk that I wouldn't have ever had kids.

And I kind of like the little buggers. Even if they are a bit stinky at the moment.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Sun 24 May 2009, 4:51, Reply)

am I allowed to go forwards?
cos if I am - I'd want to be on a plane. To england.
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 24 May 2009, 0:49, Reply)

There's only one thing I can think of
When a superb specimen of Estonian womanhood disrobed when I was 18 years old and offered herself to me on a plate. Like the complete pansy I was, I said "no".

/Hasn't seen anyone come close to her standard since, and I am still kicking myself 8 years later.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Sun 24 May 2009, 0:58, Reply)

Empathy
I actually feel gutted for you. How weird is that?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sun 24 May 2009, 1:02, Reply)

Indeed
God-damned motherfucking Christianity.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Sun 24 May 2009, 1:19, Reply)

I feel compelled to say
that was your first mistake.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sun 24 May 2009, 8:54, Reply)

*Spang*
I rather suspect it was.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Sun 24 May 2009, 9:45, Reply)

Hrm. I have a few of these.
Me at 17: "She fancies you. She's not offering to sleep with you out of sympathy you idiot, go for it"
Me at 18: "stick with the course you idiot. You can pass it, you will in a few years. Less painfull this way"
Me at 19: "Don't date her. You're terrible for each other".

Sometimes I wonder how it'd have turned out.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sun 24 May 2009, 1:15, Reply)

Every time Theres something i think back to That makes me cringe
Would I be able to change my own mind?

Probably not. Fuck it. I'm still alive right? That counts for something?
(weekirst23 Is broken! Silly ice. Silly High heels!, Sun 24 May 2009, 1:46, Reply)