Many things could have accidentally happened, and many things I could have chosen to change.
----For example, what if I got pregnant? Not that I was sexually active in high school. but what if? I would have 3 choices: abortion, adoption, or keeping the baby. Thinking back, it's a damn good thing I was on birth control, strict about the use of condoms, and knowledgeable of boys' tricky ways ("Come on, baby, I can't feel anything inside this rubber" and "You can't just leave me hard like this- you gotta take care of it!") Take care of it? You horndog. I honestly don't know what choice I would have made as a pregnant teenager. I believe to this day that you must experience something to truly know what course of action you would take.
----I guess I could have fallen into the "wrong crowd." Sometimes I wish I had. I probably would have had a lot more fun. Hell, I never did have any real fun in high school, and then I even missed out on the real college experience. Thinking back, knowing what I know now about the education system, I wish I had gone to parties instead of staying home and doing my stupid homework. A few dropped grades would be worth it since I turned out to not be destined for a big college. When I think of all the missed parties . . .
----Also, if I had dropped band after 10th grade, I could have gone to vo-tech and learned something useful. This is something I really wish I had done. Back then, I was relatively healthy, if mentally and emotionally unstable. I could have learned something to help me out career-wise, and then maybe I wouldn't have wasted all that money on college and gotten into so much debt.
----Here's one I especially like: What if I wasn't so shy in high school? What if my parents recognized my SAD and depression, and got me on the right meds? That would have increased the likelihood of me making more friends and not being so goddamn lonely, which may have led to me asking out the boy of my dreams at the time. Severe anxiety and fear of rejection kept me from asking out a single boy in high school. Sigh. To all you boys I went to high school with: you missed out. I was a very horny and lonely teenage girl. Back then, I actually opened up once you took the initiative to get to know me. Every single boy/man I have dated has said that I am easy to talk to, very open, very understanding, and in fact, I have been proposed to 4 times and married twice.
I truly wish some things had turned out different for me back then, but what's done is done.
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