Regrets/mistakes/bad decisions in life?

[d000hg]

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.

Not sure this is very accurate. He won the prize nearly two decades after the work which motivated it, and only after a lot of internal politics. The prize was not due to his work on relativity and he certainly didn't work to 'earn' a Nobel.

[Fraidycat]

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.

He must of fell out of love pretty quick

Married Mileva in 1903
Special Relatively (E=MC2) published 1905
Divorced 1919
Nobel Prize 1922

His divorce settlement mandated he give his ex wife any and all future Nobel prize money which he honoured.

[d000hg]

His divorce settlement mandated he give his ex wife any and all future Nobel prize money which he honoured.

How bizarre, if true. What a strange stipulation... maybe he thought there was no chance he'd ever win it

[NotAllThere]

Yeah you've either got to bleat about how bad your life is or present the "my life is awesome, suckers" version instead. No half measures.

My life is awesome, suckers.

… Cuz I got a brand new combine harvesteranti-aircraft missile battery
An' I'll give you the key
Come on now let's get together
In perfect harmony

The Ukrainian farmers version.

I bought some points timeshare things once. Bad idea. In the end told them to get stuffed and ignored their (empty) threats.

[Whorty]

No regrets.

As Rachel said to me before passing ... don't live life with regrets. You only regret what you don't try. She loved her life and regretted nothing (not even marrying me ... I know, that surprised me too!)

Take opportunities as they turn up, try them, if it doesn't work, move on and try something different. Just don't get to your last day and regret not trying something as that's the worst regret in life.

Although, saying that, I'm probably going to give pegging a miss

[quackhandle]

Back in my East Berlin days this Russian guy down the pub wondered if he was cut out to go into politics.

"Vladdy, " I said, "You'll be awesome at that. Go for it."

No, straight up. He came to the Bierkeller every Wednesday for the quiz. A wizz on Judo questions. And killing.


qh