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Victor Manuel Fernandez Patiño
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| Posted: 20 November 2008 at 7:17pm | IP Logged | 1
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I wouldn't change anything in me... I'm happy!
-mmm... that's so scary... -
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Wayne K Purdy
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| Posted: 20 November 2008 at 7:27pm | IP Logged | 2
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My wife had an eye disease a few years back and had to have a cornea transplant, now her vision (in that eye) is nigh perfect.
If I could change one thing, it'd be this pot belly I've developed during a recent spate of unemployment.
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Donald Miller
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| Posted: 21 November 2008 at 7:27am | IP Logged | 3
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Wow, talk about timing, I had an eye exam yesterday as after working on the computer all day I seem to develop really blurred vision...
Turns out I need a stronger pair of glasses now in bifocal...also was referred to be checked for Glaucoma. Gotta love getting old.
The one thing I would change would be my gut...I will work on this soon...
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Tom French
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| Posted: 21 November 2008 at 7:29am | IP Logged | 4
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I'd love to be thinner...
...These damn lovehandles!!!
....or my lovehandles...
...it'd be this pot belly I've developed...
Okay, I hate to be this guy -- because I hate this guy -- but I feel I must... all those things are within your control! Those things CAN be changed, not like teeth that require dentistry, or vision that requires surgery. Changes to the physique don't have to be wishes!
Look, I work very hard on my body -- and I'm far, FAR from perfect-- but I know that just the simple discipline of working out, daily exercise of some sort, has greater benefits to the body and soul aside from just looking good! I encourage those of you who don't get regular exercise to find a way to start -- you'll live longer! You'll be happier, too!
Okay, rant over -- so's my belly (over my belt)...
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Geoff Gibson
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| Posted: 21 November 2008 at 8:08am | IP Logged | 5
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Okay, I hate to be this guy -- because I hate this guy -- but I feel I must... all those things are within your control!
You are 100% right, though, Tom. Its something I'm good at starting at but sticking to it is the real trick (which, funny enough, is not something that I am generally bad at doing)!
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David Ferguson
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| Posted: 21 November 2008 at 8:12am | IP Logged | 6
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Starting is the problem for me.
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Donald Miller
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| Posted: 21 November 2008 at 8:21am | IP Logged | 7
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Tom i completely agree, and perhaps I should have said I wished I were more athletically inclined...I admire both your physique and the amount of time and effort you have put into it. As it is, I don't hate my body, I do plan on doing something about it...it's just these damn newtonian physics that get in my way...My body at rest tends to stay at rest.
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Joakim Jahlmar
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| Posted: 21 November 2008 at 9:26am | IP Logged | 8
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Jodi wrote:
“ OK I just want to complain a little I broke my glasses yesterday and I went and had my eyes checked and ordered new glasses, I just found out it will take 10 days and so I sit here right now in horrible big framed 80's looking glasses. Not only do they look goofy there is no trifocal so I can not work for ten days. ARGH!!!!!”
That is so annoying. I managed to break my glasses quite a few years back now (only the one lens, but when they checked my vision guess which eye hadn’t become worse and which had? Right, so both lenses being changed) in an almost embarassingly stupid manner and then had to use my old, dead ugly army glasses until I could have them fixed.
And I should probably go for check up soon again... got a note this summer that they thought it was time... but I’m not particularly in that kinda money mood. :/
Jodi also wrote:
“If I could change one thing about myself, it would be to have perfect eyesight, if you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?”
I’m too firm a believer in the butterfly effect to allow myself that. There are plenty of things that I regret in hindsight, but then again I’ve no idea where changing those choices would take me, but fairly certain that many of the good things in my life would not be there on those different paths. So swallowing the regrets and bad stuff with the good. And moving forward.
Al wrote:
“ My choices.”
Hey, I’m betting all of them haven’t been bad... they lead you to your lovely wife, didn’t they?
Tom wrote:
“ I did the contact lens thing for a while (both soft and hard), but my astigmatism doesn't allow them to fit well,”
Did you try those special ones for astigmatics, Tom? I also went through a phase where I used lenses occasionally (though my astigmatism was so minute that I went with the ones without correcting that particular flaw)... but then just didn’t use them as much and had to throw out an old batch... never got any more after that.
Tom also wrote:
“ Okay, I hate to be this guy -- because I hate this guy -- but I feel I must... all those things are within your control! Those things CAN be changed, not like teeth that require dentistry, or vision that requires surgery. Changes to the physique don't have to be wishes!”
So, I’m betting the “correct” wish for many of these people would’ve been “I wish I had a better discipline of working out.”
And that I too wish actually.
Edited by Joakim Jahlmar on 21 November 2008 at 9:43am
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Moyer Hall
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| Posted: 21 November 2008 at 10:04am | IP Logged | 9
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Hey some of us DO work out... like dogs! I may not be on Tom's big beefy
level... and I'm not obese by any means, but there are just certain parts of
your body that are just impossible to change!
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Bruce Buchanan
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| Posted: 21 November 2008 at 10:16am | IP Logged | 10
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if you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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I wish that I was as skilled artist like JB or many of the other talented people we have here on the Forum. I've tried my hand at drawing and even read several how-to books, but I never can seem to make it work. I find it frustrating that the pictures in my head look like a kindergartner's work when I put them on paper.
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David Ferguson
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| Posted: 21 November 2008 at 10:19am | IP Logged | 11
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Oh. That's a good one Bruce! I've also tried my hand at drawing but sadly my talents never exceed child-like doodlings.
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Bruce Buchanan
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Beyond that, I wish I could change my genetic disposition toward high cholesterol.
Almost everyone in my dad's family struggles with elevated cholesterol. My dad has to take daily medication to keep his under control, despite the fact he's virtually a vegetarian. It's an ongoing problem for him.
Meanwhile, my mom's family has ridiculously low cholesterol, despite eating a steady diet of high-fat (but incredibly tasty) Southern cooking.
Guess whose genes I got?
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