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Tue 6 Jan, 2004 04:03 pm
I hate Monday morning quarterbacks, but sometimes, when I look at my life, I wonder how things might have been..............if.
If you knew then what you know now, how would your life have been different? Would you have studied for a different career? Married your high school sweetheart? Moved to another city? Told off that lousy boss?
Well......................
Well..... there is always the stock market!
I'm content with things as they are. Most of the things I regret, I can forgive myself for.
Would most likely make the same bad decisions again.
I would not have married my high school sweetheart.
I would have gotten laid a lot more.
Do you ever think that had you followed another path things could have turned out a lot worse? The grass on a different path is seldom as green as we perceive it to be.
Brand X wrote:Like you didn't try?
Yea, I watched a lot of slow softballs go right by as a young buckaroo.
Like Asherman, I'm real happy with the way things have gone -- and those few glitches I can easily live with.
But if I knew then what I know now, I suspect some of the women who made it to the altar as virgins wouldn't have been so...lucky!
If I knew then what I know now.........I might have killed myself.........or I might have started to laugh and never stopped.........or who knows? I might have been really proud of becoming a woman of the world and knowing profound suffering and all that kind of stuff that I thought was Soooo intensely romantic when I saw it happening in movies or read about it in those depressing novels I loved so much "then"........like the one by Sartre called Nausea, which was my favorite when I was 18 and living all alone in Manhattan.
I am so very very grateful that I never knew then what I know now, and I really can't imagine what would do differently, if I could. I'm just glad I survived!!
Maybe I would laugh and dance a whole lot more..... :wink:
I would not have wasted so many years on men who could not commit, waiting for them to change. I regret never having children and look at the years I let slip by.
I would have gone to University straight out of highschool and not tried to make the quick buck.
No regrets. All the mistakes I've made have led me to where I am today, and that's a very good place.
Wouldn't have gone to college where I did...
Thanks (I think). Did that sound too smug? I hope not.
I would have spent alot more time with my Grandparents. I thought they were too old to really think and feel but now that they are dead and I have heard so much about them... seen so ,any pictures... gone to all the funerals, I miss them. I miss everythng I could have gained/learned from getting to know them.
I think youth's biggest mistake is thinking everyone else doesn't understand them.
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