Turning back time - would you?

I would to the 60's
No H&S or fun police.
No mobile phones to spoil your horse time.
Horse kept in a more simple (happier?) way
Far less traffic on the roads.
I would be young again :p
 
Nope - what I have been through and learnt makes me who I am. Take those things away and I'm a shadow of who I am now. I don't think I'm too bad, so I'll stay in the now with my past in place!!
 
Yes, I would turn the clock back to when my gelding got colic and I would have him PTS at home rather than go through the surgery that he couldn;t get up from. Then a year later I would not have listened to one of my liveries who persuaded me to turn out in the snow against my better judgement and my mare would not have sustained her career ending injury. There are one or two more personal things I would change too.
 
Definitely not for me, spent my teens being depressed, my 20s taking far too many naughty substances and now in my 30s I have a lovely place to live, a job I love, a gorgeous daughter and the best pony I've ever owned.

Honestly, being in your 30s is what it is all about IMO!!!
 
the way I feel today, the day before I ever sat on the first horse I ever rode and caught the horse bug and thus so began the life time of amazing highs, complete heartbreak and permanent poverty lol. But then again, I'll go down and see my boy this evening, he'll neigh and nah I wouldn't turn back time!
 
ThePony said:
Nope - what I have been through and learnt makes me who I am. Take those things away and I'm a shadow of who I am now. I don't think I'm too bad, so I'll stay in the now with my past in place!!
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very wise:) that's pretty much how i feel, the path wasn't easy but it was my path and i survived it and now i'm happy with the destination i've reached:D
 
I think that if anything to do with horses was more like the late 50's/60's then a lot of people would benefit far more.
Very few people owned their own horses and learned to ride at a riding school where there was a diverse assortment if horses and ponies to ride.
Riding was more fun and problems easily sorted!

As for me, I am who I am and only that way through living my life. Heck, I would like to be younger and more supple, less heavy and with more energy!
 
If i could i would in a heartbeat.

To the time when my mare was still alive. Id do anything just to spend one day, one hour, or even one minute more with her. I miss her everyday :S

Call me stupid and overemotional if you must, but id drop everything i have now to put my arms around her neck and breathe in her smell, while she sighs, closes her eyes and leans on my shoulder.

Theres nothing else in my past that i would waste it on.
 
Only to a time where I could be with each one of my various horses that I have loved and lost over the years and be with them again.

As for now I am happy now in my job, husband will do, children all grown up and my mare is a challange but worth it.
 
Yes I would, I would go back and spend time with my darling girl again, take her out on our favourite ride. When I had that dream about her the other night it was so good to see her, i have been longing to see her again in some shape or form. I would love to be able to have had more time to say goodbye, as it was so very sudden, I would have cuddled her and spoilt her rotten.

I would also go back to much earlier this year and avoided a chapter in my life altogether that I could really do without, I will not go into it, but would like to turn that back and change things there too.
 
Yes, but only for a minute. I am the happiest I have ever been now, I am settled and I have a great life. I have a horse I love with all my life and with whom I can do things I never dreamed.
But I would love just one more minute with a horse I had who had to be sold when I was young, just one more cuddle, to tell him how much I love him.
 
Never. Because every single choice and moment you live makes you who you are now. You don't know what you'd lose if you changed just one thing! :) and all in all I'm really happy with my life!
 
The fifties for me, the war had ended so lots of hope, although I have been told that things were still hard but life was nicer, slower, and people had more consideration. Community was also a strong point.

There was less traffic on the roads too!!
 
Alfiem said:
The fifties for me, the war had ended so lots of hope, although I have been told that things were still hard but life was nicer, slower, and people had more consideration. Community was also a strong point.

There was less traffic on the roads too!!
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But a pretty tough time in our country for anyone black, or gay. And women still had a pretty raw deal, for that matter. For many people, things are much better now.
 
FionaM12 said:
But a pretty tough time in our country for anyone black, or gay. And women still had a pretty raw deal, for that matter. For many people, things are much better now.
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Yes agree - just read black like me, about a white man that disguised himself as a black man in usa in the 50's- what an eye opener. Due to segregation he had trouble getting coffee, a drink, a place to stay, a place to go to bathroom, a place to sit down, a job. In Mississippi, he could not even look at a white woman or a picture of a white woman without risking his life.
 
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