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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.  

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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.

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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.  

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  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.

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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.

 

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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

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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.

 

 

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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!   :angry:

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