Road Runner Posted May 5, 2019 Share #1 Posted May 5, 2019 Not little insignificant ones, but big, life-changing, eat-at-your-gut regrets? If you don't, you are either very young or very lucky. What makes it even worse is to have your bff keep reminding you of them! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Karen_Cooper_Incident Posted May 5, 2019 Share #2 Posted May 5, 2019 Yes. I've wasted way too much time in the forums. Shu Fang 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirwickWithCheese Posted May 5, 2019 Share #3 Posted May 5, 2019 Yes Should have been Mrs. Cheese on right. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted May 5, 2019 Author Share #4 Posted May 5, 2019 1 minute ago, AirwickWithCheese said: Should have been Mrs. Cheese on right. Was it your fault? If you did all the right things and it just didn't happen, then you have nothing to regret. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirwickWithCheese Posted May 5, 2019 Share #5 Posted May 5, 2019 1 minute ago, Road Runner said: Was it your fault? If you did all the right things and it just didn't happen, then you have nothing to regret. Yes and no. She chose a loser in the senior class. I think had I bought a Snapper Comet and stuck to the economic formula of only spending money that was made from the original money I would have won her. That's her Mom and daughter. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur ★ Posted May 5, 2019 Share #6 Posted May 5, 2019 Career choice. I could have stuck with my original plan of becoming an Air Traffic Controller, which I would have been retired from 7 years ago and had a healthy pension. Alternately, my dads' desire would have had me a Chiropractor. His friend wanted that as well so I could take over his practice. Either would have been more secure with a much earlier retirement. I would also not have had to move so much. Everyone says, "yeah but being a pilot is so cool and you have seen the world". Yeah, red eye flights, dehydration, filthy toilets and air, constant fatigue, bad food and hotel after hotel is so cool. As for the world, just more of the same with a different language. Globalism has killed the need to travel to experience other cultures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team scooter Posted May 5, 2019 Share #7 Posted May 5, 2019 Regrets? I've had a few. But then again, too few to mention... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted May 5, 2019 Share #8 Posted May 5, 2019 Regerts? Nah! Oh wait, you said regrets? I’m thinking, I’m thinking! (Jack Benny was the man!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted May 5, 2019 Share #9 Posted May 5, 2019 28 minutes ago, wilbur said: Career choice. I could have stuck with my original plan of becoming an Air Traffic Controller, which I would have been retired from 7 years ago and had a healthy pension. Alternately, my dads' desire would have had me a Chiropractor. His friend wanted that as well so I could take over his practice. Either would have been more secure with a much earlier retirement. I would also not have had to move so much. Everyone says, "yeah but being a pilot is so cool and you have seen the world". Yeah, red eye flights, dehydration, filthy toilets and air, constant fatigue, bad food and hotel after hotel is so cool. As for the world, just more of the same with a different language. You don't make it sound any less cool, you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted May 5, 2019 Share #10 Posted May 5, 2019 22 minutes ago, team scooter said: Regrets? I've had a few. But then again, too few to mention... Screw you, Frank! I regret nearly half of everything, and would like another crack at it from the start. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted May 5, 2019 Share #11 Posted May 5, 2019 Fame and fortune and every thing that goes with it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris... Posted May 5, 2019 Share #12 Posted May 5, 2019 Yes. I wanted to be a professional sports photographer. Everyone talked me out of pursing it. I secretly resent all of those bastards. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted May 5, 2019 Share #13 Posted May 5, 2019 More than I can count. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitepedal ★ Posted May 5, 2019 Share #14 Posted May 5, 2019 Yes....but a lot of my regrets are tied up to emotional experiences from my youth...that I had no control over...I just wish I had known then what I know now...I think I would have taken more risks...maybe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted May 5, 2019 Share #15 Posted May 5, 2019 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted May 5, 2019 Share #16 Posted May 5, 2019 1 minute ago, Further said: Thanks! My phone was giving me fits trying to post that image. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted May 5, 2019 Share #17 Posted May 5, 2019 Could woulda shoulda is my middle name! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onbike1939 Posted May 5, 2019 Share #18 Posted May 5, 2019 Just saying I’m not complaining mind but it is a bit frustrating… this living a life… it’s true that I’ve been here a long time but it’s only now that I’m getting the hang of it and now given the state of me I may pop off at any time…. I mean the whole of this life thing is a bit bewildering if I’m honest.. years of trying to understand what’s going on and even now I’m rarely sure of anything. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onbike1939 Posted May 5, 2019 Share #19 Posted May 5, 2019 In my time I’ve asked all of the big questions you know…like… why are we here? and what’s the meaning of life? and why don’t all men wear trousers with elasticated waists? It’s all been a bit of a mystery really and especially so when it comes to women… I have tried mind……tried to understand what they were all about exactly… wasted years looking for answers before realising that there were none and that if there were some I wouldn’t understand them anyway. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted May 5, 2019 Share #20 Posted May 5, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onbike1939 Posted May 5, 2019 Share #21 Posted May 5, 2019 Just a thought They do say....I hear it all the time that with age comes wisdom which of course is rubbish..... as age only brings with it the inability to pee at will and the doubtful gift of hair which will now grow anywhere but where it should Now that I'm properly old I can speak with some authority when I affirm that I am every bit as stupid now as I ever I was when young... and while I would never seek some special treatment..... I do know some things which may prove useful to those seeking knowledge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onbike1939 Posted May 5, 2019 Share #22 Posted May 5, 2019 It would be pleasant to dispense these nuggets from some agreeable place..... a flower-bedecked bower perched on a hill perhaps where I could sit...modestly dressed in a white robe perhaps attended to by a few hand-maidens.... nothing showy of course.... seemly-looking matrons who could also cook would suffice The spoken word being a fleeting thing I should have to write something down I suppose and paper and pen wouldn't quite cut it really carved on stone tablets it would be just the thing but given that I'm sitting on the top of a hill it's going to be hell to get them down what with my knees and all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted May 5, 2019 Share #23 Posted May 5, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted May 5, 2019 Share #24 Posted May 5, 2019 I don't have a lot of regrets just a few little ones but nothing life changing. I wish I would have learned more German from my grandfather when he was alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted May 5, 2019 Share #25 Posted May 5, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted May 5, 2019 Share #26 Posted May 5, 2019 Sometimes I wonder what things would be like if I had taken a different path, but I doubt any other path would have been that much better, just different. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Page Turner Posted May 5, 2019 Share #27 Posted May 5, 2019 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted May 5, 2019 Share #28 Posted May 5, 2019 Yep, I have a couple regrets but I don’t think opening that box to fix then 30 years later would be wise. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted May 6, 2019 Share #29 Posted May 6, 2019 I probably do...., however I have never been one to focus on my many past mistakes, but instead focus on the mistakes I am going to make tomorrow 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted May 6, 2019 Share #30 Posted May 6, 2019 Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirwickWithCheese Posted May 6, 2019 Share #31 Posted May 6, 2019 15 hours ago, Road Runner said: Not little insignificant ones, but big, life-changing, eat-at-your-gut regrets? If you don't, you are either very young or very lucky. What makes it even worse is to have your bff keep reminding you of them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted May 6, 2019 Author Share #32 Posted May 6, 2019 31 minutes ago, AirwickWithCheese said: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted May 6, 2019 Author Share #33 Posted May 6, 2019 5 hours ago, Kzoo said: Yes Deciding to use that avatar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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