Dr. Hurd brings up a great point about....

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About "going back and doing it over again, with the knowledge you have now":


"People often want to hit the "restart" button on their personal relationships, or past decisions. They wish they could go back in time and make decisions all over again, with knowledge they now possess. This makes no sense at all. It makes even less sense than believing in Santa Claus, or the Wizard of Oz. The whole reason you know what you now know is precisely because of those past mistakes. The mistakes have given you that additional knowledge you now possess. Why go back in time--even if you could--to face a situation where you'd have to make the mistake all over again? "Because this time I wouldn't make the mistake," would come the reply. This amounts to nothing more than a wish to be infallible, to enter a time and space where mistakes are impossible. It's funny how most of us, when we encounter someone who thinks he's infallible--but isn't--become annoyed and disturbed by this arrogance. Yet when we wish the same for ourselves, it gives us no business being annoyed by such a person, does it?"

Smart man.

Life is a journey and guess mine has had to be until not so long ago having no clue to the real me, with discovering Aspergers and my other neurological differences etc... I can reflect back what may or may not of been, but of course if any moment in time were changed, there would be no me now, as is

Exactly, and despite my current hardships, I otherwise currently very much enjoy how my life is progressing, and am glad it's progressed as it is.

If I were to change any of the past, it wouldn't be that way now.