13 Things We’d All Change If We Could Go Back To The Past

Scientists claim that our memory rewrites the past using present experience. What happens, then, is that each of our memories is redrawn over and over again. I mean, it never actually happened? Let’s explain better.

Apparently, our brains play “cordless phone” by inventing more and more new things. Knowing this, who knows, maybe it’s time we forget about our most regrettable slips, whose memory doesn’t let us sleep peacefully?

O Awesome.Club He knows that the past cannot be fixed, but it is always possible to start again and thus change our future. Thus, we propose to scare away the most common ghosts of the past in order to end them once and for all. Fact is, if it were possible to visit the past, you would surely…

There are people who never leave our memories, even after many years: a childhood friend, a closest schoolmate and all those who were once close, but from whom we ended up separating in some strange way. Every time we think about these people, after the feeling of guilt comes the feeling that something is wrong, or that the way we walked away from these people we should have kept in our lives was very silly.

What to do: understand that the person you are thinking of has been living only in your memories for years. Most likely, if they crossed paths at this point in their lives, they would no longer feel the same mutual interest. But if you believe that you could also relate in the present moment (for some reason you still spy on this person’s social media), who knows it’s time to step out of the shadows and resume communication? What if the person also missed you all these years?

The feeling of guilt is sometimes more tiring than the endless hours of training at the gym. If you have insomnia, among the many thoughts that wait to populate your head when you should just be sleeping, surely that person, who was mistreated for no reason, is there in the queue. She had opened her heart, but in that moment you didn’t appreciate this gift of fate. Now you remember that, for some reason, you offended a good person, who could have become your friend.

What to do: what’s done is done. At that moment you were a different person, and you acted according to the customs you had at the time. Ask for forgiveness, if only mentally, but very sincerely, and let your worries go.

Did you spend “the best years” of your life with someone who wasn’t worthy of your best feelings simply because they weren’t able to end the relationship?

What to do: if you didn’t voluntarily condemn yourself to years of slavery and manage to realize your mistake in time, then the credit is yours. If you’re still sharing your life with this person, then it’s time to understand that there is no such thing as “the best years” and that the situation can still be fixed. The most important thing is not to give up and allow yourself to start a new relationship.

Always wanted to be a photographer, but ended up becoming an economist? Or the opposite, he could have chosen a career that, he believes, made more money. Now you know that later on you would feel sorry for the money and time spent on a profession you didn’t need and that, at the time, it was worth taking a risk for another career.

What to do: if the frail and fine thread of this kind of thinking continues in your mind, it is not too late to change everything. But before giving up everything at once, try to dedicate yourself to what you love so much in your spare time. See if it’s not just fragments left over from your childhood fantasies, and if it’s really been a long time since it’s really what you like anymore.

A dog followed you to the entrance of your building and you didn’t dare to pick him up? Someone got sick on the street and you pretended not to notice? What happens is that it is very easy to “fake it” for others, but very difficult to deceive yourself. The only way out is to seek more and more justifications, because this situation will appear before your eyes many times yet.

What to do: promise to be more human from this moment on. It can be offering a temporary home to an abandoned animal, and, with the help of social media, finding someone who can adopt him and give him permanent love. Or it could be doing a good deed, not just financially, but emotionally: talking to those in need, listening to those who are going through a difficult situation. It can start in the neighborhood, in the closest environment. And remember: when you don’t know what to do, do it in the most humane way.

It is very difficult to control emotions, even more so when you are young, and it is something that, in the future, you can be ashamed of. If you’ve been using social media for a long time, then people have followed every step of your growth. Surely many emotional words were written after a fight or the first separations. The purpose was to tell the world that injustices happen all the time to teenagers. To make matters worse, everything was accompanied by photographs that, honestly, it would be better if no one had had time to keep them.

What to do: for your own psychological convenience, start all over again, create a new profile and delete the old one. This will also make it easier to visualize how many true friends you have and who you really need in this life.

Continuing with the issue of old photos: perhaps no one has any more photographs from the times of their turbulent youth. But here, the problem is different: you have these photos. And no matter how far away they are kept, somehow they keep appearing before your eyes, as if mocking. And your brain starts to rummage through the colorful memories of feeling safe and irresistible, and now, seeing yourself from the outside, you have to try to understand what kind of reaction such magnetism caused in others.

What to do: not go back to the past, even if fashion is cyclical, and learn to look at yourself from the outside. Don’t forget: change your style sporadically, avoiding staying with the same image for many decades.

Just now the memory was to eat anything, at any time of the day, and the numbers on the scale stay the same. Now you blame yourself for having treated this gift of nature so carelessly. If you could go back in time, you would probably forbid yourself to eat that extra piece of pie or pizza.

What to do: doing sports and eating well are habits that take time to develop. And the later you start doing sports and stop eating fast food, the harder it will be to change your habits. Don’t chase the sports trends of the moment, don’t start a very restrictive diet, it’s better to combine the good and the pleasurable: tasty and healthy foods and a physical activity that is pleasant for you.

We all have memories of a dialogue that, mentally, is constructed each time in a different way. This has no expiration date, and it always feels like it happened yesterday.

What to do: assess the importance of the problem in your current life. It’s silly to file a mental complaint with your boss if it’s been a long time since you resigned from that job. It is difficult to say the most important words to a classmate if he is already taking care of his grandchildren. Leave the people in your head alone and focus on the present.

Imagine traveling back in time three years: here you are, sprawled on the couch, with a packet of chips. If you had forced yourself to get off the couch at that moment, today would be an example to be followed at the neighborhood gym…

What to do: it’s time to think about the objectives and not be afraid that the time for implementation will come. Time waits for no one, you don’t notice how much you age in two years and it’s up to you whether they will benefit you or not.

It’s only when you’re “twenty-something” that you suddenly realize you’re living someone else’s life and not your own. There was never time for you: you had to take care of your little sister, finish the college someone chose for you, follow in your parents’ footsteps, take care of your old grandmother, and at the same time help your distant relatives. All this is good, but only when it does not harm your own existence.

What to do: Don’t forget your loved ones, call regularly, visit if you can and if you want, give gifts only from the heart and help financially only if your income allows it. Start minding your own private life and learn to keep those relationships healthy.

In this case it is not necessary to go back far enough, it is enough to go back just a few weeks. Here you are in front of the supermarket checkout, and your hands move by themselves towards different knick-knacks. And there goes the money you could save to secure your future or buy something of greater value.

What to do: respect your work and don’t spend what you earn honestly on something of dubious value. Go buy food with a list of products and download an app that lets you monitor your spending.

Many people would like to go back in time to buy bitcoins. After all, not even December 2015, the virtual currency was worth around $700, having peaked at $15,000 in December last year. That is, if I had bought bitcoins about two years ago and sold them at the end of last year, I would have become rich.

What to do: be glad that the value is going down. Seriously, opportunities like this come and go all the time. Those who follow the market can do well. And, let’s face it, if you wanted to get rich going back in time, it would be much simpler to play Mega Sena already knowing the numbers that would be drawn.

Is that you? Are you ready to let go of the past and start living in the present?