Ever wish you could start your life over again?

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I would not want to start my whole life over again but I would go back to a few earlier points in my life and make some different choices. For example, I wish I had done a bit better at school and university. I would never have been a straight A student but I could have managed a few more B and C grades at GCSE than I actually managed. I also think I could have got a 2.1 in my degree rather than a 2.2 if I had done better in my first year and especially my final year of study. I would also have taken a different approach to finding work after graduating from university. Perhaps then I wouldn't have been out of work for as long I was and I'd be a bit further along with where I want to be in life than I currently am. I'm still grateful and at least somewhat proud of what I have managed to achieve in my life so far but I can't help thinking that things could have been even better if I had made some wiser decisions between the ages of 16 and 24.

I'd want to remember my life. I'd want to take with me my photography and writing skills. I'd work for the high school yearbook, which I didn't do and take astonishing pictures for my age. This would help me get into journalism jobs. I'd write a great novel at a young age. I'd ask girls for dates. I'd take classes early on to point toward a career in science.

I enjoy my lifestyle now but if I could, I would avoid becoming ill by standing up to mum when she tried to push me onto a vocational course.

I never got the job it was aiming at, I met two of the most awful kinds of people and I missed out on my dream life/sister's lifestyle.

I would have done well studying for an English Literature MA then studying a specific part of English Literature as a PHD then might as well have tried to be a lecturer - where eccentricity is sometimes welcome. I'm good at speaking when it comes to something I'm interested in.

Or I might want to come back as a sexy woman and be an exotic dancer and live a wild life.