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Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Looking back...

That whole 'old' thing has got me thinking, and I'd like to pose this question to the general audience:

At this point in your life, what are some things you wish you had done, but now don't have the chance? Or what do you wish you hadn't done? What things are you really glad that you did, or didn't do, when you had the chance?

Feel free to post your comments anonymously.
posted by David at 9/08/2004 12:16:45 PM

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5 Comments:

Anonymous said...
The one that sticks in my head right now. Is that I wish I never visited or wasted my time with a certain someone in October. I regret spending a hundred or so dollars to visit this guy. I also regret crying on the bus home. He wouldn't walk me to my gate b/c he didn't want to spend the fifteen dollars for parking. Well I got the old e-mail shove off very considerate of him. I regret not telling this guy to drop dead. But bizarely enough some puttana going to marry him. Ah well. salute porco mondo!
Posted: 10:10 PM  
Anonymous said...
I regret having gone on dates with people I met through the internet who only posted one or two extremely flattering, usually quite outdated and/or blurry photographs of themselves. Invariably, these guys would show up to our first meeting having less hair/muscle tone/tan/teeth than their photo would suggest. What I love about my fiancee is that not only did his online profile show 4 photos, but he also directed me to an online folder with several more taken candidly, and recently. What he, I assume, also appreciated about me was that I too looked not unlike my online photo, as it had been taken only a month before we met. I'm sure he also appreciates that I am a sane, smart, attractive woman with social graces that he is proud to have on his arm when he goes out.
As far as something I'm glad I didn't do.. I'm glad that I didn't obsess over guys I went on one date with who didn't find me attractive/interesting enough to continue dating me. If I had wasted my time harboring anger about guys that had every right to not pursue dating me, I wouldn't have had the time or the will to go on with my life and seek the person I was meant to be with.
Posted: 4:58 PM  
Jenny Lisa said...
I have no regrets. Everyone who has come through my life did so for a reason, and I am somehow a better person for it. I try and learn from every day. I am lucky to have the people I have in my life, and that they accept me for who I am. I am glad that I have opened myself up to new experiences and taken risks.

There are times I wonder if I had not listened to my guidance counselor in high school, would I have gone to Berklee? Would I have become a different kind of musician? Would I still have found myself as a therapist? I wonder sometimes, but wouldn't change it for the world.
Posted: 9:23 PM  
Anonymous said...
The dingo ate your baby!
Posted: 11:50 PM  
Anonymous said...
I probably should have been more adventurous and free-spirited. I guess I always thought that people were watching me with a critical eye, so I tended to be somewhat reserved. Now I've come to realize that nobody really cares, but I'm in less of a position to be as adventurous and free-spirited.

Curiously, I also feel like some of my old phobias, which I thought I triumphed over, are starting to return. The phobia-blocker I used seems to have evaporated, revealing an underlying essence that I somehow once covered up. Somehow, I have to apply a new coat of that stuff.
Posted: 10:49 AM  

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