What is your biggest regret in life?

I think they were talking about women, seeing as the person who posted the topic was a woman who was regretting having children earlier.

Greg wrote:

Other side of the coin wrote:

By the time you get to 40 it's very hard to have kids, and find someone that age who wants to do it with you.

Derek Jeter, Elon Musk, Alec Baldwin, Michael Douglas, Donald Trump (cough cough),

Rod Stewart still has kids and he's what, 80?

I can think of many men who have kids past 40

They are talking about women. Men play the game with different rules.

Not learning more foreign languages.

I was going to trade in my car Friday and buy a new one.

I decided not to.

Yesterday my car wouldn’t start and had electrical issues.

I should have traded it Friday.

That’s the biggest regret of my life.

I accidentally hit my dog over the head with a baseball bat when we were playing fetch when I was a kid. He had seizures the rest of his life. I've never forgiven myself.

survey says wrote:

I accidentally hit my dog over the head with a baseball bat when we were playing fetch when I was a kid. He had seizures the rest of his life. I've never forgiven myself.

I can't imagine your grief. It was an accident, so you need to forgive yourself. You know that your dog didn't hold a grudge.

Wish I could go back an redo my Sophomore college finals. On Wednesday, last day of regular classes, I thought the final exams scheduled for Thursday and Friday were for the following week! Big screw up.

Now that I am 61 I have discovered that all those girls I was afraid to talk to in high school are hornier than me! If you are in high school, keep this in mind.

Going north bound on the Appalachian Trail two years ago instead of south bound or hiking a different trail. I didn't do enough research and really underestimated how crowded the trail would be. I thought it would be similar to how it was decades ago when you could go multiple days without seeing other people. Nope. Constantly see other people really took away from the experience for me. O well.

LebronFAM wrote:

what would u do differently?

Just ... everything. I regret a lot. I was abruptly about to die at 41yo and the main thing for me at the time is that I wasn't ready; I hadn't done anything that I had intended to do. Now recovering 4 years later, I am physically and mentally diminished compared to my former self. I can't go back and fix it, but man ... if I could.

Tomorrow isn't promised. Make your todays count. That's what I would do differently.

I would have picked different parents before I was born.

This is fair. Part of the reason I stayed in “basic” office jobs during my 20s was so I had free time on weekends to date and have a social life. I definitely wanted kids more than anything. But now I see women who went to graduate school and are lawyers or doctors and they still got married by 35 and had kids. And I’m like...dang, could I have done that? But I guess I should also look at the women who pursued careers and then never got married or had kids...because there’s also many of those.

FWIW, my husband tells me to go back to school or get certified and start a career now, even though I’m almost 40. I guess maybe it’s never too late. I don’t need a high paying high power job . Just want interesting work that isn’t retail or entry level office.

60 just retired

nothing

looking back i have learned nothing

Hardloper wrote:

grazz wrote:

Finding Letsrun.

I regret not finding it sooner. Would have trained a lot better in HS with the advice on here

they had the internet when you were in high school? I always assumed you were like 65 years old.

Disappointed NOBO wrote:

Going north bound on the Appalachian Trail two years ago instead of south bound or hiking a different trail. I didn't do enough research and really underestimated how crowded the trail would be. I thought it would be similar to how it was decades ago when you could go multiple days without seeing other people. Nope. Constantly see other people really took away from the experience for me. O well.

When is the best time of year to go South and when for North?

The decisions that led to my injuries, being in pain a lot of the time and unable to walk for a number of years.

Lots of things I wish I would have done, but not so much regret that I didn't do them.

The one thing I do regret doing is marrying my first wife and essentially wasting almost 20 years of our lives. I knew from the moment I met her that I wasn't into her but just wasn't strong enough to walk away.

It's hard to say because without that, then I wouldn't have my kids, career, or anything else. Who knows where I'd be?

Getting into drugs, smoking week and raving. Wish I had taken up running as a teenager instead.

But I'm happy with where I am now and who knows whether that would be the case if I had done things differently.