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. :cool:
And since it no longer exists as a race in Africa, I think it's safe to say it's passed me by. :D
Not asking out Melody back in 1997. :(
Opening this thread. :P
Breaking up with a girl because she got a really bad perm.
The more I think about it I'd have to say I definitely regret not taking part in the Paris-Dakar, even if it had meant mortgaging a house at the time.
Reading up on the 1st and 2nd races back in 1979/80, two french brothers came 5th and then 3rd driving a Renault 4 !! :cool:
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dakardantan.com%2Fimages%2Fvehicule%2F16.jpg&hash=7e99485ccc74af15fe6dd1ff3933bc5d2ab8ad21)
In 1981 they got more professional and won it driving a Renault 20.
Not buying the right stocks ahead of time.
Quote from: Monoriu on October 11, 2015, 06:12:48 PM
Not buying the right stocks ahead of time.
Your life must be a constant disappointment.
Quote from: Liep on October 11, 2015, 06:14:48 PM
Quote from: Monoriu on October 11, 2015, 06:12:48 PM
Not buying the right stocks ahead of time.
Your life must be a constant disappointment.
I misread it as socks; which I guess is similarly as exciting.
Starting uni straight after high school instead of traveling.
Quote from: Liep on October 11, 2015, 06:17:09 PM
Starting uni straight after high school instead of traveling.
You could travel now with more money.
Retiring in 2004. I hate the civilian work force.
Ever playing MMORPGs. Sure I had fun but damn those are alot of days of my youth wasted.
Quote from: mongers on October 11, 2015, 05:35:35 PM
The more I think about it I'd have to say I definitely regret not taking part in the Paris-Dakar, even if it had meant mortgaging a house at the time.
I did not know of the race, but now that I do I regret you not doing it as well. That would be awesome!
Not choosing something useful than a master of Archaeology.
<_<
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.
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.
Playing it safe too often.
Quote from: Archy on October 12, 2015, 12:24:59 AM
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.
Quote from: mongers on October 11, 2015, 05:08:21 PM
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. :cool:
And since it no longer exists as a race in Africa, I think it's safe to say it's passed me by. :D
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.
Quote from: Tonitrus on October 12, 2015, 12:29:30 AM
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...
Quote from: Crazy_Ivan80 on October 12, 2015, 02:55:26 AM
Quote from: Archy on October 12, 2015, 12:24:59 AM
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 :(
I regret nothing. Still too young I guess, ask me in 5-10 years time.
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.
Quote from: dps on October 12, 2015, 02:21:58 PM
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
Quote from: Maladict on October 12, 2015, 03:32:40 AM
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Quote from: Archy on October 12, 2015, 12:24:59 AM
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.
Quote from: Pedrito on October 12, 2015, 04:57:28 PM
Quote from: Maladict on October 12, 2015, 03:32:40 AM
Quote from: Crazy_Ivan80 on October 12, 2015, 02:55:26 AM
Quote from: Archy on October 12, 2015, 12:24:59 AM
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.
Quote from: Pedrito on October 12, 2015, 04:57:28 PM
Quote from: Maladict on October 12, 2015, 03:32:40 AM
Quote from: Crazy_Ivan80 on October 12, 2015, 02:55:26 AM
Quote from: Archy on October 12, 2015, 12:24:59 AM
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 :P
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....
Quote from: Barrister on October 12, 2015, 11:23:03 PM
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!!
Quote from: Barrister on October 12, 2015, 11:23:03 PM
"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.
Studying a vocational degree at a time when graduates in any subject could walk into any job.
Not taking a Masters before fees were introduced.
Putting everything in a single joint back account instead of just having a joint bills account.
Letting some Welsh layabout stay the night who was still there, unemployed and doing nothing except draining my savings and drinking cider six years later.
Using what remained of my half of the house money for travel and nights out when I should have paid off more of mortgage and got a new kitchen, bathroom and furniture.
After all these years, I have finally figured out the correct answer.
Goldman Sachs for the adventurous, and medicine for the rest.
I saw the thread topic and I thought; well, I wish I would have started dating CB sooner; and asked her to marry me sooner as well. I wish I hadn't stayed at AT&T for so long. I wish that I had done field work much earlier in my career.
In short I would have made all the same mistakes; I would have just made them a lot earlier. :lol:;)
It bugs the hell out of me that I never beat Mike Tyson in Mike Tyson's Punch Out. I even remember the cheat code to fight him (007-373-5963). I never won though, and it is highly unlikely I ever will. :(
Quote from: Martinus on October 13, 2015, 05:45:14 PM
Quote from: Liep on October 11, 2015, 06:17:09 PM
Starting uni straight
This.
:lol:
Though how would it have been as an out gay guy back then in Poland?
Not quite the image of modern gay university life I'd imagine
Quote from: Tyr on October 14, 2015, 01:25:38 AM
Quote from: Martinus on October 13, 2015, 05:45:14 PM
Quote from: Liep on October 11, 2015, 06:17:09 PM
Starting uni straight
This.
:lol:
Though how would it have been as an out gay guy back then I'm Poland?
Not quite the image of modern gay university life I'd imagine
English please. :P
Quote from: Martinus on October 14, 2015, 04:31:12 AM
Quote from: Tyr on October 14, 2015, 01:25:38 AM
Quote from: Martinus on October 13, 2015, 05:45:14 PM
Quote from: Liep on October 11, 2015, 06:17:09 PM
Starting uni straight
This.
:lol:
Though how would it have been as an out gay guy back then I'm Poland?
Not quite the image of modern gay university life I'd imagine
English please. :P
:huh:
Apart from autocorrect turning in to I'm (<_<) I'm failing to see the problem.
Quote from: Martinus on October 13, 2015, 05:45:14 PM
Quote from: Liep on October 11, 2015, 06:17:09 PM
Starting uni straight
This.
You were straight when you started uni? Makes one wonder exactly what they were teaching in Polish universities. We already knew it obviously wasn't law. :)