Question Of The Day!

[Theor23]

Good morning everyone,

I woke up thirty minutes ago, and had something lingering in my mind. More about life, where I am, who I am...what I want to become. But my question is often asked but....

If you had it all over again, what would you do differently?

Moreover, what lessons in life have you learned you otherwise wouldn't through experience, or other life altercations?

For me, it would be the fact you don't realize what you have until it is gone.

In my own life, loosing a job and living in a car became a reality that was all too real.

[CT Pixie, BSN, RN]

I've made both good and bad choices in my life...some were really really good, while others were just beyond bad.

When I start the 'what if' line of thinking, I stop myself. No amount of reflection, stressing or wondering is ever going to change the past.

I try to remember, that without those good choices AS WELL as the bad, I would not be in the good place I am. I went through hell and made it out alive..for the better. To me everything occurs for a reason. I may not know or understand at the time why it went down the way it did..but often, down the road..I see that I had to experience AB and C in order to get to XY and Z.

[B52, ADN, BSN, MSN, RN]

I used to be a newspaper reporter/editor. I got laid off in 2008, went to LPN school, then RN school. When I first went to college eons ago, my major was nursing, but I switched to journalism because I love to write. My journalism degree is almost useless now, but I wouldn't change a thing because I had a wonderful journalism career. However, I wish I had started my RN pre-reqs sooner, when it was obvious that the newspaper industry was dying a slow, painful death. Another thing I would change is I would trust no one, especially bosses.