Life's Greatest Regret?

[Tonitrus]

Never pursuing/telling the first woman I fell in love with how I felt about her.  Not at all likely to have had a positive result, but at least I'd have some peace of mind knowing one way or the other.

[Gups]

Not buying a 5 bedroom house in Brixton for £60K in 1992 because I didn't want to be saddled with a mortgage. That decision has added 10 years to my working life.

[Syt]

Playing it safe too often.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Not choosing something useful than a master of Archaeology.

hah, I hear you! Loud and clear. Though the few years I worked as one sure were fun.

[Duque de Bragança]

What's the one thing in your life that you regret the most not doing?


Mine, I regret not taking part in the Paris–Dakar rally, that would have been some adventure. 

And since it no longer exists as a race in Africa, I think it's safe to say it's passed me by. 

I did not know it was popular in the UK, it's still popular in France, but commercialism hurt it even before the move to South America. That and the death of its founder, Thierry Sabine.

Never pursuing/telling the first woman I fell in love with how I felt about her.  Not at all likely to have had a positive result, but at least I'd have some peace of mind knowing one way or the other.

A classic, give or take a detail...

[Maladict]

Not choosing something useful than a master of Archaeology.

hah, I hear you! Loud and clear. Though the few years I worked as one sure were fun.

Thirded   

[celedhring]

I regret nothing. Still too young I guess, ask me in 5-10 years time.

[dps]

Never asking out the girl I had a crush on all the way from 3rd grade through high school.

Two years after I got out of college, I found out that both she had actually wanted me to ask her out.  Her best friend (who I also sorta dug) wanted to ask her out as well.  Both of them told several people that, including, of all people my stepfather, but none of them bothered to tell me until about 6 or 7 years later.

[The Brain]

Never asking out the girl I had a crush on all the way from 3rd grade through high school.

Two years after I got out of college, I found out that both she had actually wanted me to ask her out.  Her best friend (who I also sorta dug) wanted to ask her out as well. 

HOTT

[Pedrito]

Not choosing something useful than a master of Archaeology.

hah, I hear you! Loud and clear. Though the few years I worked as one sure were fun.

Thirded   

It seems I am the fourth disgruntled archaeology major on this board. Maybe we can start a cabal, just like the lawyers. Please, I've never been in a cabal...

Speaking of regrets, my biggest is not firing a person when it was time.

L.

[Barrister]

Not choosing something useful than a master of Archaeology.

hah, I hear you! Loud and clear. Though the few years I worked as one sure were fun.

Thirded   

It seems I am the fourth disgruntled archaeology major on this board. Maybe we can start a cabal, just like the lawyers. Please, I've never been in a cabal...

Speaking of regrets, my biggest is not firing a person when it was time.

L.

But most lawyers (unlike Ideo, who, God bless him, never qualified) actually like their profession...

"Life's greatest regret" is a hard question to answer.  I can identify a great many forks in the road.  Coming out of high school I gave a great deal of thought to applying to military college.  But it being 1992 that seemed like a terrible career path.  What if I would have gone into the military?  My life would have been so different I couldn't even predict.

Or my first girl friend - I did love her.  But I'd never had any other girlfriend, and my the time I was 20-10, I thought I had the hots for another girl (who immediately shot me down).  Who knows what my life would have been like if I had stayed with her - it would have been very different, for sure, from my current life.

Even professionally... what if I had stayed in Alberta?  What if I had stayed in Yukon?  Each choice would have been quite different.  I can't say I regret any choice I had made.

[Archy]

Not choosing something useful than a master of Archaeology.

hah, I hear you! Loud and clear. Though the few years I worked as one sure were fun.

Thirded   

It seems I am the fourth disgruntled archaeology major on this board. Maybe we can start a cabal, just like the lawyers. Please, I've never been in a cabal...

Speaking of regrets, my biggest is not firing a person when it was time.

L.

I suggest Archaeologists for STEM
75% of Archaeology Majors speak Dutch.  75% of Languish Dutch speaking. Posters Is Archaeologist.  I know the sample is not statistical relevant 

[Josquius]

Too many.  Couldn't say which.

*lots of nonsense when I was a kid that came from listening to my parents too much.
*not choosing different a levels (more fun stuff rather than supposed useful stuff)
*not choosing a more enjoyable university study
*going to uni at the shitty place I did my bachelor rather than going away somewhere
*doing my masters straight after bachelors rather than saving money first.
*passing up the chance to do an exchange in my masters, in particular to Tokyo u, because of a lack of money (could have made money there easily)
*a bunch of girls I shoulda woulda coulda.
*making the choices I did of where to go in Japan (based off old word logic. Dumb. )
* taking the worst job ever for those months of hell in 13.
*at this time of the morning: getting an apartment in the city rather than near work

Etc....

[Crazy_Ivan80]

But most lawyers (unlike Ideo, who, God bless him, never qualified) actually like their profession...

definately liked being one, but the jobsecurity was/is terrible. and as we all know: bread needs to be on that plank!!

[dps]

"Life's greatest regret" is a hard question to answer.  I can identify a great many forks in the road.  Coming out of high school I gave a great deal of thought to applying to military college.  But it being 1992 that seemed like a terrible career path.  What if I would have gone into the military?  My life would have been so different I couldn't even predict.

Yeah, but to me what you have to regret isn't when you have a choice and choose A over B, it's when you have an opportunity and choose to do nothing instead of choosing a different opportunity instead.  For example, I had 2 at least somewhat serious girlfriends before I met my wife.  I loved both of them, and on a certain level, sure, I wonder about how maybe things would be if either relationship had worked out.  But at least I gave those relationships a shot, so I regret the girl I never worked up the nerve to ask out more.