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Any regrets in life?
On the whole I tend to be a ‘doer’ – much to my wife’s consternation at times. At the end of my life I don’t want to look back on too many missed opportunities and wonder “what if”. With me, the longer I put something off the less likely I am to do it. As such, nowadays if I decide to do something I tend to be pretty quick and decisive.
I do, however, have one or two regrets in life:
1) The wife and I considered going round the world before we had kids. In the end it proved quite tricky, from a practical perspective.
2) I should have bought a decent sports car ten years earlier.
3) I had one or two real estate opportunities some years ago, but was worried about spreading myself too thin. Looking back, I should have gone for it.
On the whole I tend to be a ‘doer’ – much to my wife’s consternation at times. At the end of my life I don’t want to look back on too many missed opportunities and wonder “what if”. With me, the longer I put something off the less likely I am to do it. As such, nowadays if I decide to do something I tend to be pretty quick and decisive.
I do, however, have one or two regrets in life:
1) The wife and I considered going round the world before we had kids. In the end it proved quite tricky, from a practical perspective.
2) I should have bought a decent sports car ten years earlier.
3) I had one or two real estate opportunities some years ago, but was worried about spreading myself too thin. Looking back, I should have gone for it.
My biggest regret is not going to uni single. Based on the assumption I could make a long distance relationship work and I was happy with the girl I was with.
I missed an opportunity to be with a girl that I adored rather than just liked. im still kicking myself for it 2 years later.
The clincher is, a few months after I dropped out, I broke up with my girlfriend anyway.
Bah, I curse my own stupidity
I missed an opportunity to be with a girl that I adored rather than just liked. im still kicking myself for it 2 years later.
The clincher is, a few months after I dropped out, I broke up with my girlfriend anyway.
Bah, I curse my own stupidity
Splitting up with my first wife, who died some years later with cancer, although she'd remarried by then!
My second wife has never really accepted my three older kids, from my first marriage, and it makes me feel very guilty, especially as I have three more with my second wife.
Personally, I couldn't have got it more wrong if I'd tried.
My youngest kids (twin boys) came out of hospital on the very day that my first wife died and so I had twins coming home, for the first time, and three devasted kids at home, who had just lost their mum.
My second wife has never really accepted my three older kids, from my first marriage, and it makes me feel very guilty, especially as I have three more with my second wife.
Personally, I couldn't have got it more wrong if I'd tried.
My youngest kids (twin boys) came out of hospital on the very day that my first wife died and so I had twins coming home, for the first time, and three devasted kids at home, who had just lost their mum.
Rob Smith7 said:Heh - easy to say, although it does seem to be true. I *do* regret some stuff I've one (mainly due to drink!
Never regret what you have done, only regret what you did not do.
), but only for a few days - the stuff I should have/could have done but didn't, I still regret now. Dan
DanL said:
Never regret what you have done, only regret what you did not do.
Heh - easy to say, although it does seem to be true. I *do* regret some stuff I've one (mainly due to drink!
Dan
That's exactly it!
I guess there are things I 'should' regret, but I kinda have to work on the basis that if I hadn't have made those mistakes then I wouldn't be the person I am now. For what it's worth, things could always be much worse than they are, so I'm thankful for small mercies.
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>> Edited by TeamD on Thursday 23 December 16:34
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>> Edited by TeamD on Thursday 23 December 16:34
Regrets?
I've had a few. But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption. I planned each chartered course, each careful step, along the by-way. And more, much more than this, I did it my way.
Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out. I faced it all and I stood tall, and did it my way.
I've loved, I've laughed, and cried. I've had my fill, my share of losing. And now, as tears subside, I find it all so amusing. To think, I did all that
And may I say, not in a shy way. Oh no, oh no, not me
I did it my way.
For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has nought. To say the things, he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels. The record shows, I took the blows and did it my way.
Yes, it was my way.
I've had a few. But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption. I planned each chartered course, each careful step, along the by-way. And more, much more than this, I did it my way.
Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out. I faced it all and I stood tall, and did it my way.
I've loved, I've laughed, and cried. I've had my fill, my share of losing. And now, as tears subside, I find it all so amusing. To think, I did all that
And may I say, not in a shy way. Oh no, oh no, not me
I did it my way.
For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has nought. To say the things, he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels. The record shows, I took the blows and did it my way.
Yes, it was my way.
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