Answer for question 4602.

[seawasp]

[Error: unknown template qotd]I would never do it. Even a very small change in past events can have huge consequences. If I went back at any time earlier than 1990, I might never have ended up marrying Kathy (and in fact any change up until the wedding could do that). Sure, there's things I regret doing and would like to change, but the likelihood is that I'd cause something -- maybe a LOT of somethings -- to change in a way I didn't like.

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[groblek.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. I like the way my life has turned out too much to risk meddling.

This also answers my teenage question of "If I set a date to meet my future self, and I don't show up, does that prove I never have access to time travel?" Though underestimating my own absent-mindedness also answers that one - I have no idea now what date I set for that theoretical meeting.

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

Obviously, you need to go back in time and ask your younger self what date you're supposed to meet them at.

My regrets are hundreds of little things spread over nearly a decade. There's no obvious point in time I can say "this is where I went wrong", and even if there was, there's nothing I could tell myself that I didn't already know.