The Listening Post
If you had the ability to "leap" back into yourself at any point in time, when would you choose and what problem would you choose to fix? What do you think the consequences would be if the event was fixed? Inspired by Quantum Leap

I can't think of any major problem in my life that I'd want to risk leaping back in time for. That's something to be thankful for, I know. And even if there was something I wanted to change, and I had the ability to go back, I wouldn't. Have no regrets - that's something I learned from watching the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Tapestry. Don't regret the mistakes you make. Learn from them. If you go back and change one of those mistakes, you never get to benefit from the experience. You never get the chance to grow just that tiny inch more. I don't know... just a little sprinkle of loon philosophy there.

A few minor problems do come to mind though. If I could, I'd 'leap' into myself a few months ago, right before I tried to 'leap' over the gas pump hose at the gas station.

I would not try to take the shortest route to the front of the car. I would not step over the gas pump tube-y thing while it's connected to my car. I would not try and leap over it in a single bound, for I do not wear blue tights and a cape with a big 'S' on my chest (it's actually an 'L'.) I would walk the long way around like any smart, accident-prone person would do.

That would solve the problem of the frelled up knee but what would be the consequences of fixing this? Well, I wouldn't have learned to not step over the hose thing-y. Therefore, I could very well do my flying squirrel impersonation the next time I went to the gas station. But now, with that embarrassing event behind me and forever imprinted in my mind, I now think twice about stepping over the hose while its busy transferring gas into my car. And I've caught myself several times about to do it. I'm washing the back windshield... then I start to walk forward to clean the front windshield... but the hose is right in my way... I think about just simply stepping over it... then I have these horrible flashbacks... eeek! :) It's a bad habit of mine (I don't know why) but I'm slowly breaking it. Go me!