I wish I would of done better in high school. Spent more time with the books and bumped up my grades. After I got out of the Army I went back to college and was pretty much an A and B student. My real mistake is letting a certain girl get away from me in 1979. My biggest mistake in life.
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For liberals and anarchists, power and control is opium, selling envy is the fastest and easiest way to get it. TRR. American conservative. Never trust a white liberal. Malcom X Current NRA member.
Not much, loved high school, loved football, hated track, but they wouldn’t give us a letter jacket if we didn’t run track. College was not an option, step corksucker ran me out of the house the day I graduated. I learned a good trade, never had a job I didn’t quit for another. I have a great retirement.
I would have tried to work it out with first wife more, but wouldn’t have my boy or the great wife I have now, so I really wouldn’t change cshit.
With the mentality I have now?,....I would have learned a language and a set of skills that would allow me to live in a country where the government is an afterthought.
With the mentality I have now?,....I would have learned a language and a set of skills that would allow me to live in a country where the government is an afterthought.
With the mentality I have now?,....I would have learned a language and a set of skills that would allow me to live in a country where the government is an afterthought.
If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass when he jumped!
After 53 years, my biggest "regret" is wasting time on "regrets".
Did I make some boneheaded decisions? Hell yeah! Made a few good ones too! Had a cousin who came up with an idea for a swivel elbow that could be used in the oil patch. Somebody saw it and hounded him into getting a patent on it! He died a VERY rich man!
Retirement could be better......but it could be a HELL of a lot worse! Nothing to brag about, but I'm not gonna bellyache either.
I was told by a wise woman many years ago, when I was young:
"If you could go back and relive your past all over again, knowing what you know now... You probably wouldn't make all the same mistakes you made in your past. But, you would likely make a whole new set of mistakes, that would be much worse than your previous mistakes!
I did, but it wasn't what it was cranked up to be.
Vive le mort, Vive la guerre ?????
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
With the mentality I have now?,....I would have learned a language and a set of skills that would allow me to live in a country where the government is an afterthought.
Where would that be?
Panama sounds promising.
I have a cousin who’s lived in Costa Rica for 40 years now. I’ve visited and stayed there 3 times with her while doing offshore fishing.
Seemed stable at the times that I’ve visited. Super nice people.
If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass when he jumped!
After 53 years, my biggest "regret" is wasting time on "regrets".
Did I make some boneheaded decisions? Hell yeah! Made a few good ones too! Had a cousin who came up with an idea for a swivel elbow that could be used in the oil patch. Somebody saw it and hounded him into getting a patent on it! He died a VERY rich man!
Retirement could be better......but it could be a HELL of a lot worse! Nothing to brag about, but I'm not gonna bellyache either.
You're all assuming that you'd know what you know now and would do it differently. In reality, you'd only know what you knew then and you'd do exactly the same thing again. If I could go back knowing what I know now, my whole world would be different. ....
RC is spot on. Sure with hindsight I would have done things differently, but the decisions I made at the time were the best ones I could have made based on the information then available.
The OP's question is one my kids often ask me, and my answer used to be a little different (perhaps to project lessons learned in the fullness of time to make their own decisions a little easier).
With the past now in sharper focus, I have no regrets....
Carry what you’re willing to fight with - Mackay Sagebrush
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
