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I don't regret walking away from that beautiful young girl 40 years ago that all she had to offer were looks.

There are women with looks and brains.

Marrying my wife and having 2 fantastic children.

Started to read the bible at 50. Better late then never.

Going to college. Waited 4 years after high school.

Giving my Dad a 222 Remington he always wanted but wouldn't buy. He & Mom moved to northern WY and after seeing all the P-dogs there I found what he wanted. He gave it back to me just before he passed in April. He used it hard judging by all the dings and copper fouling.

I DON'T regret spending the last 2 years caring for my dad through his dementia! It was a blessing my siblings will never get to experience as they had little to do with dad. Dad passed on Monday morning at the age of 88 years old. The 15th of next month would have his and mom's 67th wedding anniversary. Dad was an electrician for 42 years before retiring and as a kid worked on dairy farms in NE Wisconsin. He was 5'-7" and about 175 pounds, I'm 6'-4" and about 240, I used to stand over him and call him shorty, he'd reply I might be short and skinny, but so is dynamite! LOL! He was a character and my mentor, started me hunting over 50 years ago, see ya dad!

Good for you buddy. My dad taught me to always bust my ass at work, no matter the pay. But he also taught me that family is more important than any job. You did the right thing by a long shot.

They were tough. They needed to be. They'd be laughing at all these pussies and their complaining about minimal schit these days. They are the Greatest Generation for a reason.

Allowing Lord Jesus into my life, that had everything to finding my lovely wife.

I loved living in Alaska for 35+ years. But never once regretted moving to Tennessee almost 5 years ago. I do however regret the wife and I didn't move out to the bush in Alaska and live that lifestyle for at least a few years.

I don't regret Marrying the gal I married (Bad choice on her part)
I don't regret spending 3 years taking care of my mom, a lot of memories were made in those 3 years.

There are a lot more.......

Walking back into church in 2007. I’ve done more to help others in the past 13 years than I did in the previous 35. A LOT more!

I forgot to mention that Grandpa milked cows as well. That probably explains the stronger than average hands.

Dropped everything in February to take care of my dad. He passed on February 28th. I've been with my mom ever since... Stage 4 plus pancreatic cancer since October 2019... her day is coming soon.

I will have zero regrets... and then I will get back to the other things I was doing before.

P.S. 24HC has been a phenomenal distraction... I think I would have gone out of my gourd without the community to laugh with... and the commies to fugh with.

A life lived with few regrets is a great life.

A life lived with no regrets is perfection.

My life has had many regrets, but I hope to add no more.

Joining the Army in 1965 and volunteering for Vietnam after graduating from OCS.

Neil

Going into O’Reilly with a mask on

Eloping... and avoiding the wedding circus between my controlling father and her uncompromising mother.

Still together 29 years later.

My great grandfather took me under his wing when I was young. A hell of a man, veteran, county sheriff, blacksmith. Took me fishing, built whatever I wanted in his wood shop, gave me my first 22, and a long list of many things. We weren't even related by blood, but that didn't matter. When I was about 22, I went back to my hometown to hook up with my buddies for some BS, ended up visiting with him instead. A thunderstorm rolled through and we lost electricity. We sat in the dark for an hour or more, not talking a lot, but that didn't matter much. Never found my buddies that night. I'll always be glad I saw him that summer, He died soon after while I was gone to the Colorado mountains on my motorcycle, no cell phones then, I didn't find out for over a week. Thanks for jogging my memory, Rooster. God Bless

I have often thought myself a selfish man for choosing to live where I do.

Moving to Colorado in 77 & buying a 30/06

Cool story Rooster, thanks.

Things I don't regret.

I quit a good paying job at 20 years old, $3.10 an hour when min wage was about $1.85 Boss wouldn't give me a 5-6 week leave of absence to leave SoCal, take a bus to WA, spend 8 or so days crossing the Olympics from Quinalt to the Elwah drainage, then busing and ferrying over and spending a week climbing Mt Rainier after a record snowfall year. As the Wonderland trail was still mostly snow covered we bused south to Tahoe, went in at the Desolation Wilderness, and hiked another week+ down the John Muir trail (No Pac Crest at the time). What doesn't kill one makes one tough, right? Postholing in the drifts with a 45-50lb pack over the pass in the Olympics, being lowered into a crevasse on Rainier, surviving 60mph windstorms, lightning storms that required pulling the center pole out and tossing it out on the glacier, freezing rain, whiteout blizzard, igloos melting on a down bag when the storm passed in the night, helping drag a guy down to the lodge after he tore his knee up in a snowbank, such fun should not be allowed.

Surfing, boogie boarding, and body surfing for years. ( I sure miss it here in the desert)
Learning to scuba dive in cold water, made diving in nice places that much nicer.
My college education and career afterwards. I worked with cool animals in cool (and extremely hot!) places. Sometimes with cool people too, but I'm not a fan of most folks.
Meeting and marrying my wife...............mostly........some days though
Being a dog person, I've had a bunch of wonderful ones.
A weeks vacation in Hawai'i. on the Big Island. If rich I'd move there.
Being a partyer when younger...............worked it all out before I was too wore out to enjoy the rest of life.
Having a taste for "exotic" foods, or ethnic, or more than meat and taters if you will.

Rooster, nice of you to start a good thread about things other than politics and the crap going on in the world today.