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Looking back on your life, what is the single biggest regret?

Or, knowing what you know now and were granted one do-over, what would it be?

You must be at a loose end, this morning. All these new threads.

I work at my home office these days and I'm waiting for confirmations and corrections on some work I just submitted. Since I have no office companions to chat with, I'm using the board as the "water cooler" for entertainment.

I have a long list of regrets. Every year I have more. The one that keeps coming up in my mind is an opportunity I passed up when I was eighteen.

I've posted it here before, but what the heck.

In the summer after graduating High School I was offered a job herding sheep in a mountain valley in Utah. I would be provided with two horses, sheep dogs, a rifle and ammunition, supplies, low wages and trailer to live in.

This particular valley had a beautiful trout stream running through it. My only responsibilities were to keep the sheep in the valley and chase away coyotes.

I passed on it. I wish now I would have taken it.

Quasimodo wrote:You must be at a loose end, this morning. All these new threads.

I work at my home office these days and I'm waiting for confirmations and corrections on some work I just submitted. Since I have no office companions to chat with, I'm using the board as the "water cooler" for entertainment.

I have a long list of regrets. Every year I have more. The one that keeps coming up in my mind is an opportunity I passed up when I was eighteen.

I've posted it here before, but what the heck.

In the summer after graduating High School I was offered a job herding sheep in a mountain valley in Utah. I would be provided with two horses, sheep dogs, a rifle and ammunition, supplies, low wages and trailer to live in.

This particular valley had a beautiful trout stream running through it. My only responsibilities were to keep the sheep in the valley and chase away coyotes.

I passed on it. I wish now I would have taken it.

Quasimodo,

Sounds like a wonderful opportunity filled with experiences that you would have never forgotten.

Regrets are pretty worthless. I have a few, but I realize how little they actually are worth being under the bridge as they say, and just try to make the most out of every remaining minute.

Regrets? Release time seminary. All the other useful things I could've learned. I did early morning classes for 3 years, and took summer school so I could get some of the easy credits out of the way, letting me study the stuff I really wanted to during the regular school year, because there weren't enough hours in a semester once you figured in release time seminary.

Oh well. Lesson learned.

SteelHead wrote:Regrets are pretty worthless. I have a few, but I realize how little they actually are worth being under the bridge as they say, and just try to make the most out of every remaining minute.

Steel,

Yeah. You're probably right.

As Paul Simon once sang, "A good day ain't got no rain, and a bad day is when I lie in bed and think of things that might have been".

Quasimodo wrote:

Everybody Wang Chung wrote:Looking back on your life, what is the single biggest regret?

Or, knowing what you know now and were granted one do-over, what would it be?

You must be at a loose end, this morning. All these new threads.

(Psssst: he's just 22 posts from exaltation.)

Bret Ripley wrote:Psssst: he's just 22 posts from exaltation.)

21 now!

Everybody Wang Chung wrote:Quasimodo,

Sounds like a wonderful opportunity filled with experiences that you would have never forgotten.

Yep, I know now that it would have been a wonderful experience. A new girlfriend at that time convinced me that I would be making a mistake by taking the opportunity. That relationship only lasted the summer, anyway.

Paradise lost.

I'm sure there's a lot of things I could have done better. But I guess I'm just not wired to regret. I find myself to consumed with fear of the future and coping with the present.

ajax18 wrote:I'm sure there's a lot of things I could have done better. But I guess I'm just not wired to regret. I find myself to consumed with fear of the future and coping with the present.

Regretting in advance? A canoer's advise. There is no point in paddling around the rocks until you get to them.