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Thread started 05/20/16 7:48am

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If you could go back to exactly one month (April) with everything that you know today, what would you do?

What would you do/not do this time last month if you could time travel like in the Matrix movie?
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Reply #1 posted 05/20/16 7:54am

purplestainedt
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Booked tickets to see him in concert. I was finally in a place where I would have the time to be able to do that. I always felt he would be here. Sadly, we know the outcome sad .

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Reply #2 posted 05/20/16 7:58am

thedance

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If I could "time travel", then I would ask P to go see a doctor with his pain problems....



Prince would probably be alive then today.... sad sad sad sad

Ps I am no specialist in pain, but something just went out of control right?

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Reply #3 posted 05/20/16 8:01am

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I would go see the Atlanta concert and then call the Minnie emergency and have them get to PP (or at least try to get them to PP) prior to Prince passing.

Then all would still be right with the world.

Because of their half-baked mistakes, we get ice cream, no cake; all lies, no truth; is it fair to Kill the YOUTH ~~ Party Up
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Reply #4 posted 05/20/16 8:12am

morningsong

Have the paramedics spend the night at PP.


I mean seriously, what could you do just a dozen hours before the world shifted?
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Reply #5 posted 05/20/16 8:17am

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I would have f'kin saved his life, for real, no matter how or what I have to do, they could throw me in jail afterwards just fine don't matter, I would be on a mission for all humanity here! yes


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Reply #6 posted 05/20/16 8:24am

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Everything happens for a reason - we don't know why he left us but he had to go.

All I would do differently and could do differently is not be at work at the time I found out. I would want to be alone with a candle and his music and glass of red and hear the world stop and a piece of me die the moment his heart stopped beating.

Whatever you heard about me is true
I change the rules and do what I wanna do
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Reply #7 posted 05/20/16 8:26am

GottaLetitgo

I have spoken of my Dad many times during my posts the last month. I was really close to my father and his death had an enormous impact on me. My father, in his last year, had multiple surgeries to repair various ailments and several weeks before he died he had one that could have gone 50/50 either way and we ended up on the good 50 side. He recovered slowly and then finally enough to go home. He could have and should have stayed at the hospital longer but he was adamant about being in familliar surrondings. He seemed to be doing okay, not great but okay for a couple of weeks and then one night he was eating some chicken and had a stroke. When he had the stroke we were told about two different kinds of suregeries he could have, both risky but one with more of a chance to restore some normal higher activity but more risky than the other. We chose that one and he made it through but overnight he had massive bleeding in his brain and that was it. I am sorry to be graphic but what this presents is a series of choices made, any of them that could be made differently but the end result was the loss of my father. Sometimes, no matter what choice you make you don't get the result you want. I go back to that time to this day and wonder but in the end, his health was really bad, he survived through several brutal surgeries and his body just gave out. Prince maybe could have and should have been helped by someone. Maybe he was being helped, maybe he would only allow so much help. Prince was a free spirit, I can't imagine it was easy for anyone in his circle to change his mind if he was set to do a certain thing. We don't know what happend so I won't speculate. I will say that even with Michael J. Fox's Delorean, we sadly may not have been able to save him.

All good things they say never last...
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Reply #8 posted 05/20/16 8:33am

insania

Can I go back 3 months?

I was at the after party in Melbourne in february and I was 4 feet away from him for most of the night and he danced with us that night too and I wish I'd had the guts to try and get behind that rope so I could tell him to take care of himself.

I know there's next to no chance that I would have been allowed to speak to him but it kills me that I didn't try.

I always felt like I was inching closer over the years at after parties and I was sure I gonna try and talk to him next time but now there will never be a next time.

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Reply #9 posted 05/20/16 9:06am

morningsong

GottaLetitgo said:

I have spoken of my Dad many times during my posts the last month. I was really close to my father and his death had an enormous impact on me. My father, in his last year, had multiple surgeries to repair various ailments and several weeks before he died he had one that could have gone 50/50 either way and we ended up on the good 50 side. He recovered slowly and then finally enough to go home. He could have and should have stayed at the hospital longer but he was adamant about being in familliar surrondings. He seemed to be doing okay, not great but okay for a couple of weeks and then one night he was eating some chicken and had a stroke. When he had the stroke we were told about two different kinds of suregeries he could have, both risky but one with more of a chance to restore some normal higher activity but more risky than the other. We chose that one and he made it through but overnight he had massive bleeding in his brain and that was it. I am sorry to be graphic but what this presents is a series of choices made, any of them that could be made differently but the end result was the loss of my father. Sometimes, no matter what choice you make you don't get the result you want. I go back to that time to this day and wonder but in the end, his health was really bad, he survived through several brutal surgeries and his body just gave out. Prince maybe could have and should have been helped by someone. Maybe he was being helped, maybe he would only allow so much help. Prince was a free spirit, I can't imagine it was easy for anyone in his circle to change his mind if he was set to do a certain thing. We don't know what happend so I won't speculate. I will say that even with Michael J. Fox's Delorean, we sadly may not have been able to save him.





But I sure would love to have given it a good old-fashioned college try.
There would have been that.
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Reply #10 posted 05/20/16 9:34am

duccichucka

username00 said:

What would you do/not do this time last month if you could time travel like in the Matrix movie?


Nothing. Prince moved about not as an automaton but as someone practicing agency
and the ability to choose, plot, and perform actions. I don't know if we should ever take
that away from someone, although, we could argue that substance abuse does cause the
section of the brain that makes effective/sound decisions less effective. Anyways, if his
demise is related to chronic pain caused by years of stage performances (I don't think

Prince receives enough recognition for his athletic abilities) and however he decided to

treat his pain, whether orthodoxical or not, his death, while tragic, may help save lives

for other people who are living with substance abuse issues. In other words, I would do

nothing to stop Prince from living his life as he saw fit; although I would hope he would

make better decisions about how to treat his ailments and who he allowed in his camp.
Additionally, his death, if related to substance abuse (I think it is) reveals that addiction

is indiscriminatory in nature and maybe someone says: "Holy Fuck. Prince was rich, suc-

cessful, talented, worshipped; if he succombed to substance abuse, then it can come for
me too. Maybe I do need to get help."

There's something that doesn't sit right with me when we talk about going back into the
past in the hopes of affecting change in our present. The ability to deal with your past
and face the consequences of your decision making is a hallmark of a healthy adulthood.

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Reply #11 posted 05/20/16 9:57am

BreakfastCanWa
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strawberrybubblegum said:

Everything happens for a reason - we don't know why he left us but he had to go.

All I would do differently and could do differently is not be at work at the time I found out. I would want to be alone with a candle and his music and glass of red and hear the world stop and a piece of me die the moment his heart stopped beating.

Yes, this is beautiful.

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Reply #12 posted 05/20/16 9:58am

kristy

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I go back wayyyyy back and tell him, I know you love to do the splits and that you want to while your young, but that causes problems later so please consider cut back on how many or cut it out way earlier , everytime I see pics or video with him and the splits all I think about is his poor hip, I love watching him do them but I would take all them back if it meant we didn't have this type of outcome, I don't know what happen because the report hasn't come out yet but, if it is link to pain medicine, then the statement I said is how I feel
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Reply #13 posted 05/20/16 10:16am

GottaLetitgo

morningsong said:

GottaLetitgo said:

I have spoken of my Dad many times during my posts the last month. I was really close to my father and his death had an enormous impact on me. My father, in his last year, had multiple surgeries to repair various ailments and several weeks before he died he had one that could have gone 50/50 either way and we ended up on the good 50 side. He recovered slowly and then finally enough to go home. He could have and should have stayed at the hospital longer but he was adamant about being in familliar surrondings. He seemed to be doing okay, not great but okay for a couple of weeks and then one night he was eating some chicken and had a stroke. When he had the stroke we were told about two different kinds of suregeries he could have, both risky but one with more of a chance to restore some normal higher activity but more risky than the other. We chose that one and he made it through but overnight he had massive bleeding in his brain and that was it. I am sorry to be graphic but what this presents is a series of choices made, any of them that could be made differently but the end result was the loss of my father. Sometimes, no matter what choice you make you don't get the result you want. I go back to that time to this day and wonder but in the end, his health was really bad, he survived through several brutal surgeries and his body just gave out. Prince maybe could have and should have been helped by someone. Maybe he was being helped, maybe he would only allow so much help. Prince was a free spirit, I can't imagine it was easy for anyone in his circle to change his mind if he was set to do a certain thing. We don't know what happend so I won't speculate. I will say that even with Michael J. Fox's Delorean, we sadly may not have been able to save him.

But I sure would love to have given it a good old-fashioned college try. There would have been that.

Of course. Me too. It just seems like there were points there with Prince that if one right thing had been done or another, what happened wouldn't have happened. Painful to think about.

All good things they say never last...
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Reply #14 posted 05/20/16 10:21am

Cloreen

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I'd go back and buy the one Prince release I don't own and buy it for thirty-five bucks. The "One Night Alone...Live" set is now being sold for $400!

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Reply #15 posted 05/20/16 10:33am

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Um, I'm not quite sure you understand The Matrix, which means you might still be very much plugged into it.

"eye don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r."
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Reply #16 posted 05/20/16 11:18am

FUNKYNESS

I would to Paisley Park and cause a scene that would increase security and draw more attention to Prince. Maybe he would have had someone there in that elevator due to te crazy fan outside trying to climb the fence screaming and crying for him to hold on and wait for the doc.

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Reply #17 posted 05/20/16 12:12pm

RiotPaisley

strawberrybubblegum said:

Everything happens for a reason - we don't know why he left us but he had to go.



All I would do differently and could do differently is not be at work at the time I found out. I would want to be alone with a candle and his music and glass of red and hear the world stop and a piece of me die the moment his heart stopped beating.



Same here.

I would have tried to get to Paisley Park for the party he threw that Saturday since I've stupidly never been there while he was alive.

But yeah, I definitely would have preferred to not be at work. That was an awful day. I would have also rescheduled an appointment I had that night - however, I would not have gotten the huge discount I wound up with because I kept said appointment. So yeah all happens for a reason. Timing is everything.
Surprise, surprise.
Another treat. Another trick.
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Reply #18 posted 05/20/16 12:25pm

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FUNKYNESS said:

I would to Paisley Park and cause a scene that would increase security and draw more attention to Prince. Maybe he would have had someone there in that elevator due to te crazy fan outside trying to climb the fence screaming and crying for him to hold on and wait for the doc.




thread win. this x 1000
"If u love somebody, your life won't be in vain
And there's always a rainbow, at the end of every rain."--peace and love, dear prince.....
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Reply #19 posted 05/20/16 2:34pm

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Hello, Lovelyone's I would do so many things differently as well as tell Him somethings....I hadn't but the main thing is I would tell Him I truly and deeply Love Him ...
Hug Him ...

And let Him know He has a friend in Atlanta :dove:

May God....

Honeysweet yes
Smiling Makes Joy Come Alive........and Joy can never die .........yes
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Reply #20 posted 05/23/16 5:31pm

Lizzypoo

BombFunk said:

I would have f'kin saved his life, for real, no matter how or what I have to do, they could throw me in jail afterwards just fine don't matter, I would be on a mission for all humanity here! yes

Exactly!

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Reply #21 posted 05/23/16 6:03pm

Musze

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purplestainedtears said:

Booked tickets to see him in concert. I was finally in a place where I would have the time to be able to do that. I always felt he would be here. Sadly, we know the outcome sad .

[Edited 5/20/16 7:56am]

I'm with U. I could have DRIVEN to Atlanta shows. And then I found out around the 25th a Miami show was going to be announced... neutral

I Love U, But I Don't Trust U Anymore...
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Reply #22 posted 05/23/16 7:05pm

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Lizzypoo said:



BombFunk said:


I would have f'kin saved his life, for real, no matter how or what I have to do, they could throw me in jail afterwards just fine don't matter, I would be on a mission for all humanity here! yes




Exactly!


My thoughts too!& Make sure he was not alone
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Reply #23 posted 05/23/16 7:10pm

nursev

sit on PP's doorstep.
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Reply #24 posted 05/23/16 7:31pm

h4rm0ny

Exactly one month?

It would be April 23rd, so I couldn't do anything. But if it were April 20th? I'd break into Paisley Park and chill until I see him get into the elevator, then follow him and act real casual. Like I'm supposed to be there. If he calls the cops or lets me stay in there with him, I can be there the moment he collapses. Prince's life is saved and hopefully he'd appreciate that and not press charges or put a restraining order on me.

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Reply #25 posted 05/23/16 8:06pm

ufoclub

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Realistically, I could imagine spending anything to have gone front row to that last concert.

But like a scfi novel reality, I would be calling everyone that knows and worked for him and said, "do not let him be... intervene. NOW." I'm sure this would have to be before that night.

You could drive your car through a wall to divert attention and bring people in. Whatever it takes.

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Reply #26 posted 05/23/16 8:59pm

mailaccount63

I would do everything in my power to make sure that he wasn't left alone.
RIP Prince. We will NEVER forget you. Thank you so much.

"Dearly Beloved:
We are gathered here today 2 get through this thing called: 'Life'."
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Reply #27 posted 05/23/16 9:00pm

bluegangsta

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Wear a condom.

Always cry 4 love, never cry 4 pain.
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Reply #28 posted 05/23/16 9:51pm

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purplestainedtears said:

Booked tickets to see him in concert. I was finally in a place where I would have the time to be able to do that. I always felt he would be here. Sadly, we know the outcome sad .

[Edited 5/20/16 7:56am]

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Yes this Piano and Microphone tour was going to be perfect for me. I had the time and money to see several shows and just so frustrating that it won't happen and neither will any more P shows. neutral

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Reply #29 posted 05/23/16 10:24pm

tmo1965

I would go to the Walgreens and tell him that he needs to go straight to the emergency room because he is not well and will be dead before sunrise if he does not. I will tell him that I know about the Percocet because maybe he will wonder how I know about that and take me seriously.

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