Profound thoughts

[Rickrock]

I was just sitting and reading and had what I think is a profound thought. Earlier today I had walked around the block and came across a neighbor walking their dog. We walked and talked and she told me about her relationship with God and I mostly just listened thinking that it was mostly good and I only just disagreed with a small part. Now I was reading a book and it talked about someone who had spent years in jail and regretted that they had caused those years when they had bought a gun and had robbed a store and wished they could go back and redo things. I realized that most people regret something they have done in their life that they wish they could do over, but in my life I mostly regret things I hadn't done.

What are your regrets and / or what profound thoughts have you had?

 

[Rickrock]

^ I should add, things I didn't say, or things I didn't do.

 

[Alistair]

I try not to regret anything, everything I’ve been through makes me who I am.

 

[Dargelos]

So many people from so many places all say the same thing, which is;
At the end of your life, you will regret not doing the things you ought to have done far more than you will regret doing the things that you ought not to have done.
I am not at the end of my life yet so I have yet to find out how true that is but it sounds true, I'm sure it is true.
The lesson to be learned is, if there is something you want to do, do it now while you have the chance, don't wait until it's too late.

 

[rareboy]

I would like to go back and undo some things.

 

[Peloso]

No regrets. What Alistair said. You can't change the past, but you can learn from it.

Profound thoughts: If I mush my tummy flesh together with my treasure trail in the middle, it looks like a little hairy but crack.

 

[Vannie]

I have this small regret of not having more videos of loved ones that have died.

 

[unloadonme]

This is way too profound for me.

 

[peeonme]

I try not tp play "could'a should'a, would'a". I have a few regrets but don't dwell on them. I can't change the past.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I think it harmless to imagine what could have been. It doesn't require one to languish or pine or obsess about it, although I respect those with a philosophy of not looking back that way.

If I were to get a re-do, which I do not want, btw, I think I would have pursued a different career and in preparation for it, a different degree at college. Althought science is very tempting to me, I'm not sure working for the companies and universities who fund it would be satisfying.

Rather, I think I would have enjoyed going into statecraft, to serve in the State Department. I enjoy travel, enjoy meeting those of other cultures, and would like to have worked in a position that involved travel. Of course, becoming an ambassador would have been highly unlikely in my lifetime, those plums given to the wealthy and politically favored.

But, I think the work is still an important one. I haven't enjoyed either teaching or aerospace & defense work. I've spent my adult life surrounded by people whose philosophies and politics are xenophobic and selfish. I don't like that.