Missed Opportunities Or Things You Wish You Had Done.

[Servant King]

I'm in a little bit different position than many of you guys, being only 36. Still, I do have one glaring regret--I wish I spent more time with my grandparents and appreciated them more. Coincidentally, my last living grandparent (my paternal grandmother) passed eight years ago to the day.

 

[FurCoat]

I regret going into university…what a waste of money and time . I wished i purchased a land with all that money and go off the grid , I’m 28 so its not too late that’s exactly why I’m saving money right now with my fiancée to make a family and going as far as we can get to big city…

I respect that. You need to do what makes you happy.

 

[mso489]

Jay, Jay, Jay, you're not even sixty yet! Put it in gear and choose one of your aspirations, and see where it goes. Book binding can be done at many levels, so start with the simplest form and see where it leads. Likewise, with bee keeping, you could start with one hive, or help with someone else's hive--they need hive sitters-- and see what happens. Life is one long tour of exploring prospects, taking up some and abandoning others. When life's over, it's over, so far as we know. But until then, find out what's possible and go with it. Growing up, I aspired to be a minister, a stand-up comedian, a psychologist, a photographer, a radio operator, and a few other careers. Being a faculty spouse, I learned that I would have been poorly suited to teach, and being married to a successful journalist, I see that that could have been a hard road for me. Okay, that's the pep talk. Take it under advisement and disregard as appropriate.

 

[Streeper541]

Played my trumpet for my grandpa that one last time. Had that threesome. Invested in RedBox. Re-enlisted a second time.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

stand-up comedian,

My wife did her first stand up at 50. It’s never too late. I mean, you most likely will never get an HBO special, but almost every city has a Toastmasters Club, and they can help you from there.

 

[Winterreise]

I respect that. You need to do what makes you happy.

Exactly my thought , I’m not judging people who enjoy city but definitely not for me !

 

[varrj]

I wish I’d bought that Paolo Becker pencil shank billiard when I had the chance.

 

[Servant King]

Played my trumpet for my grandpa that one last time. Had that threesome. Invested in RedBox. Re-enlisted a second time.

Imagine trying to do all those things simultaneously...

 

[Jaylotw]

I'm 34, but a few things it's too late for:

Fishing more with my dad the year before he died
Keeping my original band together and going for success. We would have done it.
Learning to play slide guitar with the slide on my pinky instead of the ring finger. No way I can change now.
Learning to sing when I was too young to be self conscious. Im a chicken about it now.

As far as missed opportunities, life is nothing but missed opportunities. I've learned to take everything in stride and be happy wherever life takes me.

 

[JOHN72]

I had a good adaptation to military life. According to my superiors, I had good capacity and character for the profession. However, he had other projects in civil life, which went to hell. Thanks to all this bullshit making I'm now happily married to a great woman............I do not regret anything..............

 

[anotherbob]

I wish I would've gotten home an hour earlier January 28th 1995.

reminds me I wish I made that phone call and could have learned to trust my intuition some other way. Not quite the same situation that was just a friend but.... I know exactly what you're talking about.

 

[warren]

I sometimes wish I spent less time rueing things I can't change and looking forward.

 

[ben88]

Missed a chance to do my neighbor. She's hot.

 

[sablebrush52]

I wish I had worked less and partied more.

I sometimes wonder what my life would have looked like if I accepted the full scholarship the Department of Mathematics at UCLA had offered me to quit the College of Fine Arts and join the Department of Mathematics. Definitely would have been quite a different path.

 

[mso489]

I had such limited math talent that I lost all ambition in that discipline. Any ambition for medical school was abandoned, despite good dexterity and fair interpersonal skills. I took physics instead of chemistry in high school. But I've always been interested in the philosophy of math, if that's a thing -- the fact that numerical solutions can be applied effectively to physics, biology, and so on.

 

[magicpiper]

No regrets here. Always did what was expected of me. Had a lot fun. Travelled the world. Married the best girl in Montréal. Have a son that makes me want to be a better father than I had. My career hasn’t felt like work yet.
I’ve been lucky, blessed, and in the right place at the right time more times than I can count. Regrets are no good because you can’t change the past. Just the future. I choose to focus on that.

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

Were it not for regrets, I would not have had the impetus to change my present and my future for the better.
So no regrets about regretting, if that makes sense.
It just seems to be part of being a well-balanced person.

 

[carlomarx]

I would have accepted the offer to be the third Righteous Brother.

 

[warren]

I learn what I can't from missed opportunities and move on. Woulda, coulda, shoulda simply wastes time once any lessons are learned.

I wish I had worked less and partied more.

There was a time in my youth and early years as a copper that I did that. Some great memories! But, as a career starter? Non-starter all the way. Good times, good times!

 

[bullet08]

Regrets are silly. There are thing I would have done in addition to what I have done, but that would have taken more than one of me. Did things I wanted and I haven't missed out much. Can't really want to change much. Maybe I would have smoked Camel instead of Marlboro, but Marlboro tastes better to me.