Regrets/mistakes/bad decisions in life?

[Paddy]

We divorced a few years ago after being together 23 years. In the latter years we actually became much more sexually compatible. Neither of us were interested.

Masturbation?

[TwoWolves]

I wish I'd had more kids and started a family sooner. Being a father is hard work but the most rewarding thing I've ever done, plus they are turning out to be good kids.

[pjt]

I think if you make it to middle age and you dont have any regrets you've done something wrong. I look back on certain things and still cringe with regret. But at the same time mistakes happen and sometimes these things either make you or break you.

That being said if I had a time machine I'd use it for a few decisions.

[Paddy]

I think if you make it to middle age and you dont have any regrets you've done something wrong. I look back on certain things and still cringe with regret. But at the same time mistakes happen and sometimes these things either make you or break you.

That being said if I had a time machine I'd use it for a few decisions.

In which case you have had the same normal life and reflection about regrets that most of us have. My biggest regret is that I have been an empathist when in fact I should have put myself first. However, I learn from the past but don't live in the past.

[TheDude]

Some time ago one of my wife's friends bought a Rolf Harris painting for several thousand pounds.

[TheDude]

I wish I had absorbed more of the Essex wideboy wheeler dealer business acumen which is part of my birthright.

[d000hg]

Reflections on past decisions in hindsight are not really the same as regrets, in my view. I have some of the former but few of the latter.

In which case you have had the same normal life and reflection about regrets that most of us have. My biggest regret is that I have been an empathist when in fact I should have put myself first. However, I learn from the past but don't live in the past.

So you regret not being more of a selfish git?

[ladymuck]

I don't really have any regrets. Disappointments, maybe, but if I had done some things differently or made different decisions would I be the person I am today?

[Lockhouse]

I don't regret anything; but, with hindsight:

I should have left school at 16 instead of faffing on for another couple of years and then wasting my time at college.
I should have been less trusting of financial "experts" in the 80's and 90's.
I shouldn't have married my first two wives.

[Paddy]

I don't really have any regrets. Disappointments, maybe, but if I had done some things differently or made different decisions would I be the person I am today?

Einstein worked hard to gain the Nobel Prize so that he could pay to divorce his wife Mileva. Had he been happy with Mileva, there may not have been the E=Mc2 equation.