Regrets in life?

[Deleted member 38069]

No regrets just wished I could've stayed in for 20 and STAYED in SoDak.

 

[dcopas78]

Sometimes I regret living through getting blown up and shot in Iraq after I couldn't save my buddy's life.

Glad you are here John, and your buddy was darn lucky to have you as a friend

 

[dcopas78]

I don't really regret anything. There are a few things that I didn't do that have me thinking "what if" on occasion. Like the chance I had to accept an 8-month long work assignment in Boise, Idaho that I turned down when I was a 23 year old, single engineer. If I'd went west at that age, I would have stayed. However, if I'd been out there, I probably wouldn't have met my wife and the mother of my boys. Everything happens for a reason.

 

[Jape]

Everything that I have lived and experienced has made me the person I am today.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ― C.S. Lewis.

"God pity them both! and pity us all, who vainly the dreams of youth recall; For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'" - John Greenleaf Whittier

Usually, it does not do to dwell on the past. Some of us may not have the best beginning, but as @2rocky mentioned we can change the ending.

 

[MO Betta]

Gas station sushi.

 

[JShane]

Not reestablishing my relationship with my grandmother so she could meet her first great grandson before it was too late. Some endings we cant change.

 

[MThuntr]

Being a fatass and allowing it to ruin 30 years of my life...then losing a bunch of weight and allowing my diet to become an eating disorder then relapsing and gaining 20lbs over winter and struggling to safely get a hold of the issue again.

 

[Mallardsx2]

Nothing worth noting.

Other than I should have borrowed the money to apply for my Colorado ELK points when I was in college and they changed the rule for a couple years where you had to apply every other year and I lost them all. (5 to be exact).... bastards.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Sometimes I regret living through getting blown up and shot in Iraq after I couldn't save my buddy's life.

Doubling up with @Boomerusaf I enjoy your posts tremendously, forum wouldn't be the same without you. Glad you are around.

 

[ChrisS]

I don't really regret anything. There are a few things that I didn't do that have me thinking "what if" on occasion. Like the chance I had to accept an 8-month long work assignment in Boise, Idaho that I turned down when I was a 23 year old, single engineer. If I'd went west at that age, I would have stayed. However, if I'd been out there, I probably wouldn't have met my wife and the mother of my boys. Everything happens for a reason.

I've turned down Alaska three times now. The first two were as a young airman in the 90s and not knowing any better. The third time was last summer when my wife vetoed the transfer.

 

[BrentD]

Sometimes I regret living through getting blown up and shot in Iraq after I couldn't save my buddy's life.

Well we sure like having you around. Count on that. You are a good part of this place.

 

[JoltnJoe]

Mine has to be not getting my head on straight, my work ethic in order, and truly living right until I was into my 30s.... better late than never I suppose

 

[noharleyyet]

Life is a long journey where maps were drawn by a fool. Juan Nepomuceno Guerra

 

[Sask hunter]

Missed a couple big whitetails I should have got back in high school. One was probably 180 typ and the other around 200 non typ. Wish I could go back and take this shots again

 

[stealthy_bowman]

I definitively regret not having started elk hunting sooner in life

 

[Brittany Chukarman]

Suffering fools for longer than I should have when I was an employer and the times I didn't follow my gut. But life is for learning.

 

[gouch]

Sometimes I regret living through getting blown up and shot in Iraq after I couldn't save my buddy's life.

I'm sorry if I dredged up some bad memories for you. I truly do regret the title of this thread if I did.

 

[Panda Bear]

Well we sure like having you around. Count on that. You are a good part of this place.

I agree!

When I saw this thread I also thought of that song April likes. "Yesterday"

My regret is not changing my major sooner when I was in college . But not much of a regret on the grand scale of things.

Actually there are a few things form my college days I would like to forget and hope others have.

 

[8andcounting]

Sometimes I regret living through getting blown up and shot in Iraq after I couldn't save my buddy's life.

Thanks for your service John

 

[pre6422hornet]

Yes John thank you for everything you have done for this great country!

My biggest regret is back when I was 18 I had a decision to make:
1. Accept a Golf scholarship to a 4 year university.
2. Accept a Baseball scholarship to a different 4 year university.

At the time I figured... " I can play golf the rest of my life, and I probably only have 4 years of baseball left".. I took the baseball scholarship, even though I was a 2x better golfer and played 4 years of baseball. Made lifelong friends and even had a tryout with the Montreal Expos in the fall of 1995.

With the then Nike Tour, and the fact that I can still play golf once a year and shoot lights out, I wish I could go back and tell that 18 year old kid to follow the little white ball around course instead of hitting 90mph fastballs.

BUT the path I chose eventually led me to my beautiful wife and my four equally gorgeous daughters, a great career, lived all over the country.... Not sure that would have happened if I had chose the different route. I am a lucky man.