As you age what would you do differently..

[Mcrider55]

At 68, I'd change nothing. I rolled with life's up and downs and came thru with battle scars, but it's those scars that make me who I am. My old high school buddies are almost all dead. Drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, took most of them. I have my health, I married way outside my pay grade. There are 3 kids, 4 grandkids, 3 German Shepherds, two cats. I retired to warm weather in Arkansas to a beautiful spread totally surrounded by God's gift of nature. Got my Champion bass boat, and a Corvette, everything is paid for.

Life's been berry, berry good to me.

 

[nmkid]

When I came home from Vietnam I was messed up and I didn't even know it! I thought it was OK to get drunk almost every night and go looking for fights. Thank goodness I married my childhood sweetheart. I don't know how, but she stuck by me. She saved my life. She passed away in 2016. I wish I could return to my 20s and tell her how much she meant to me. Now, at 78 I am pretty much financially set, but I wish I could also have a chance to tell all my uncles and aunts who helped me how much I loved them.

 

[AccelR8]

 

[AccelR8]

I often say I want a time machine. There are times I so wish I could go back and revisit, just be there again for a little while. But I wouldn't want to stay! When I think of my life today, especially when I think of my children and grandchildren, I wouldn't take the chance of changing a thing.

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

Bought more gold in 2001-2002.

 

[AccelR8]

The question has got me all thinkin’ philosophical-like today!

Ya know how sometimes you hear a song and it seems like it was written specifically for you? That song for me is “Love is All” by (don’t laugh) Yanni

“Thundering on high
Love was all I knew before I fell
And now the shots of man
Echoing inside myself
I am breath against this fire
And I will not turn away
I’m waiting for time to carry me
Like a tempest to the sea “

OK gotta finish my tea and get back to work

 

[Liven The Dream]

Well just Hit 78......... Found the meaning of Life. No cares...

Only thing I wish I would have stayed in the Army longer.
But the VA is very good to me.

 

[jds holler]

OK, I regret that I never saw Seger and his guys in concert. jd

 

[rwj]

… at 78 I am pretty much financially set, but I wish I could also have a chance to tell all my uncles and aunts who helped me how much I loved them.

Hopefully not too soon… but that day is coming!

 

[dryhumor]

As you age what would you do differently..​

Not a lot really. I’ve said for decades that if I got a week in the sun on the porch after I retire, that I’d have met my goal. Been retired nearly a year now. Got my week. Every day since then is icing on the cake.

Hunted more last year than I have in many years. Home cooked meals instead of drive through or restaurants. Not having to deal with shortcomings of jobs and projects. I retired with over 750k Hilton Points; have no desire to go anywhere after having to go everywhere. Hell it’s kind of hard for me to convince myself to drive more than 20 miles anymore. A career spent traveling here, there, and yonder makes one appreciate home.

I will say this though, I never fully appreciated how quickly time passes. If you want or think you want to do something, better do it…

 

[Tommie]

Now I admit to hating recoil.

 

[rr2030]

I would have flown right by instead of stopping and getting off on this planet.

 

[jxb]

A lot of things I wish I'd done differently, but that's true even last week, last month, last year.

I have very good hearing, but at the same time tinnitus bad enough it's always noticeable and I've had it since my late 20's. I guess a regret was not protecting my hearing when younger.

That said, most young people hear but don't listen so even if someone had tried to convince me it was best for me, I'd almost certainly have ignored them. Oh wait, maybe that's two regrets, not taking good advice.

 

[gero]

76....more dogs,less women....

 

[7br]

I regret that day when I was a young man and that lady said she’d give me a nickel if I’d come into her yard and bust up that old chifferobe. It was a total toss of the dice when I got married at 21 and just back from the southeast asian war games. It never should’ve lasted with the mindset I had then but it did. 51st wedding anniversary coming up and I couldn’t feel more blessed. Did some things wrong and some things right. Learned some big lessons on the way and still learning. Life is good these days.

 

[jelenko]

even middle age and you've got no regrets, you're just not paying attention.

it takes what it takes to get where you are

No question!

 

[Kittitas George]

"The past is in your mind, the future is in your hands" As I look back and try to give credit, I've have had a lot of dumb luck. So many things gained or accomplished weren't goals that were set, I was just in the right place. Some goals were set and reached, other things just luck. I have thanked people for the help they provided along the way. The most help I received was just a phone call from a new friend to the "right" person, it made everything else possible. He told me "no one goes anywhere without help". I've never forgot that, and tried to do the same thing, give people some help when needed of asked. As I've said before "I've got a pocket full of memories, not wishes". I'm now looking forward to doing some things with the museum in my home town, oral history, getting some other old timers involved and 'what ever'. When I need to give up an activity, I add a new activity.
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give" Winston Churchill. "Live life to the fullest and focus on the positive".

 

[Jr solocam]

I'm gonna say that if you've achieved even middle age and you've got no regrets, you're just not paying attention.

That being said, regrets do us no good, unless we use them to correct our course or change for the better. I guess this is where we better learn the meaning of repentance.

There is no way that I can look back on my life and deny the train wreck that I was for ten+ years. I regret the pain that I caused to folks who loved me, and the wasted time that could have been spent in many better ways. I also believe that it takes what it takes to get where you are, and I'm at a pretty happy place right now.

I belong to a God who is apparently still using me on this earth, and I'm gonna show up every morning and try to do what he's got planned for me. He lets me have a lot of good times in the process, and seems to always get me through the rough patches. jd

This . One of the best things I have read. Thank-you.

 

[Ccrider]

I am Blessed and Thankful. Made a lot of decisions, had I the wisdom, I would have made differently. Thankful for the things those bad decisions taught me and the understanding I bought and paid for with them that helps me do better today.

Still, from time to time, I manage to do something that leave me shaking my head or laughing at myself. Guess it’s just part of being human.

 

[AlNyhus]

Any regrets?

Yep. In 1986, I should have bought Microsoft stock instead of building a new race car.