you’ve just been given the opportunity to say something to someone, or do something that you didn’t get to do before it was too late. What is it that you would say or do?
I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature!
Well, as I often do when faced with a question like that, I started thinking of all the mistakes I’ve made in my life.
Then I realized that making those mistakes were essential in making me the person I am today. I happen to really like the person I am today, and I don’t know if I’d be that same person without having made those same mistakes.
So I wouldn’t change a damn thing. I like my life the way it is, blemishes and all. No regrets, just hope for the future, and an appreciation for experience. With every mistake, you learn.
“Buffalo Bills? Oh, yeah. The guys that always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.” --WallyM7
As a few people know from private chat…there’s only one thing I would do over in my life. If I could, I wish I could relive my college years, especially the last two. I was so upset, and basically fucked up everything I had until I drank every day to escape. And for a long time, I couldn’t forgive myself for almost flunking out. Hell, I still can’t forgive myself for setting it up so that I may never attend grad school.
I’ve overcome what I put myself through…but there’s not a week goes by I don’t regret what I did. sigh
I would have kicked him out years before I did
“Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda
I’m with you, Drain Bead. I’m no angel - I’ve made my share of mistakes. But I’d rather be who I am today than the person who would have missed learning all those lessons.
i would have said ‘i love you’. altho i think he knew it, i also know he never took anything for granted.
I don’t know if I’d do anything differently. Well, actually there is one thing. I told a secret about someone I knew to a whole bunch of people that shouln’t have known. Ugh, that was the worst thing I’ve ever done to someone. But, I learned my lesson from that. Anyway, if I could I would go back and warn myself not to let that secret slip! Other than that it’s just minor things that I wish I could have done better (like oral reports, etc)
It’s worth the risk of burning, to have a second chance…
I worked for 13 years with 50 other scientists doing research that was, in the end, useless. It’s hard to leave when you are getting paid OK. There’s the problem.
I’d take a Design course at University. Back when it was free.
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I dont think I’ve made any major mistakes in my life, but if I did have a chance to do something over it would be to tell my parents more about how I felt about them, and to thank them for making me the person I am today. I always said I love you, but never really went on to say the why part.
We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another
I would have liked to say goodbye to someone who is now gone in person.
I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature!
Instead of going to bed, I would have marched into the kitchen and told my in-laws that I heard them talking smack about me.
I would have said, **“Now you can be done with the subtle insults and rolling your eyes when you think I don’t notice. I already suspected that’s how you felt, but now that it’s out in the open, no more phony kisses and feigned concern.” **
As was well said in a previous post, I’m a composite of my experiences, good or bad, and I rather like who I am now. I still have a lot of growing to do, and will until the day I die.
Having said that, The only negative experiences I would change are those where I hurt another, unintentionally, usually through opening my mouth before engaging my brain.
I’m sorry…
VB
Remember, you can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish!
“You did a great job dad, sorry I couldn’t have been a better son.”
" Now why would I slow down? This steep mountain road is at least 2 meters wide. Skiing through that 180 degree corner, surrounded by large trees, with over 60 kilometers an hour will most certainly not be problem. "
I would like to have the opportunity to relive the three weeks following that incident without two broken ribs 
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- Neil Peart, Rush (1993)