Hey Pandas, If You Could Change One Thing In The Past, What Would It Be? (Closed)

Make sure a certain Adolf is accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

I would have fought my mother harder on her insistence to keep my dad on life support after his accident. He had told me, point-blank, when I was a kid that he did NOT want to end up like his own mother - disabled and needing care, needing someone to change his diaper, etc. After his accident my mom ignored his wishes and kept him on life support. He was in a coma for 6 months. He survived, but had catastrophic brain damage. He lived for another 21 years bedridden, with a feeding tube, in diapers. His two daughters had to change him and wipe his àss. I loved my father, but he did NOT want to live that way. The worst part? The day he was dying in the hospital, 21 years after his accident, my mom refused to stay. She said she "couldn't handle it". I stayed and held my dad's hand as he died. I was the only one who stayed with him. THAT is something I don't regret or want to change. But I should have fought harder for it not to happen in the first place - when the doctors said my dad had massive brain damage after his accident, I should have fought my mom to take him off life support. It would have saved ALL of us two decades of pain and suffering watching my dad slowly get worse and worse.

Prevented Donald Trump from being born!

Head back to 2006.

Buy a plane ticket to Australia and then do everything I could to make sure Steve Irwin didn't make it to work on September 4th.

I wish I had studied harder and also, never picked up a cigarette.

I believe that you shouldn't change your past, only your future. The only thing that I would change though... I would say to my father more often how much I loved him and I would hug him way more...

I'd prevent my mother from taking that horrible retail job that's eating away her physical and mental health and will probably end in her total collapse. It was supposed to be a temporary thing and sounded like a good idea at the time, now it's like 15 years and she has developed some kind of Stockholm syndrome in the sense she seems to value her work more than herself and her well-being (a textbook example of old-school, self-destructive work ethics).

I'd prevent Roman Emporer Theodosius from declaring christianity to be the official religion of the roman empire.

not doing meth for the first time

I would write a different Bible.

My best, my worst and all between made me to who I am today. When I look in the mirror I see a guy I can easily live with. So: Nothing. Just do it all again.

Vote earlier in life.

Should have learned guitar or drums instead of saxophone🎷...

That when the Europeans first visited Africa, they met them with open arms and didn't see them as savages and inferior, but as people, human beings and thus, slavery never became a thing. Which also prevented racism now.

I would have asked my girlfriend out sooner

done enuf d***s to get up the courage to either myrder my abusive drunken dear old dad or to auff myself or both hell cannot be any worse than these too many years I've lived

If I change my past, then first I achieve my goals. But this is not possible

I'd set up a play date for "The Donald', Putin and all the S.Korean upper echelons who have access to creating worldwide catastrophies to get caught in an inescapable room and find a person with honor -- where, I'm not sure - to handle all the nonsense with wars which are always for selfish reasons. I would love to rid the term "Collateral Damage" from our vernacular. I just hate the meaning of that word...