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We should count our blessings but...
Spider7115
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...do you ever count your regrets? I guess as I get older, I sometimes reflect on things that I regret and wish I could go back and correct them: Missed investments, job opportunities, people I shouldn't have hurt, people I should have hurt, guns I wish I had bought or kept, classic cars that I sold for a song, changing my mind on that $10 daily double bet and having it come in at 30-to-1, bad relationships, not calling or visiting my parents often enough, keeping myself healthier, saving more money for retirement, adopting that dog that just wanted a loving home, learning a foreign language, furthering my education...
Oh, man. This list is getting too long. I think I regret starting this thread! [:(]
Oh, man. This list is getting too long. I think I regret starting this thread! [:(]
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as you stated the older we get the more we have logged in the memory banks .
I like where I am, and doing something differently would no doubt have altered this.
Brad Steele
No significant regrets.
I like where I am, and doing something differently would no doubt have altered this.
You're very lucky. That's a blessing in itself.
mostly at night when trying to sleep and all is quiet on those sleepless nights and my mind starts paging thru my life ( it would never make best seller or a good TV show ) ,
as you stated the older we get the more we have logged in the memory banks .
+1
a lot of coulda woulda shoulda
quote:and doing something differently would no doubt have altered this
I believe that too
So to spite I signed up for National Guard, all was going well untill I got cocky taking the ASVAB and missed by one point.
Said to myself, "screw dad and screw the military! If I can't join the Marines then they can all kiss my *!"
Well, from there I chose my path, it wasn't the right one and I made a ton of mistakes along the way.
My regret is not showing the old man up, waiting 6 months till I was 18 and went ahead and joined the Marines but instead I got bullheaded and walked away.
In 2003 when dads Reserve unit was deployed to Iraq amd he pulled his little stunt to get out of going I tried my * off to join the Army. By then I was too old for the Marines (33) and Army was it. There are a couple GB members that truly helped and we gave it an honest try but I just needed too many waivers.
That is why I went to Iraq as a truck driver for KBR, I had to go and if I need to explain it you would never understand. Iraq and the middle east changed my life forever, some good some bad.
I will die regretting never being able to wear the uniform.
Dan
Concentrate n the good things you have done, and the right decisions you have made. You can't change it anyway, so might as well dwell on the good. Dwelling on the bad will cause massive lip flipping, and crayon coloring.
Dan
I think I have more blessings than regrets but I still could have earned a few more. I guess it's just more of a realization of my mortality at this point in my life. I have a lot more years behind me than I do in front of me.