As you age what would you do differently..

[Jr solocam]

Closer to 60 than 50. Any regrets?

 

[butchlambert]

Well, not really too many regrets at 82!

 

[jelenko]

81 - Happy now, but sure wish I could revisit some moments. I cringe at some of things I did/didn't do.

 

[AccelR8]

Well...there’s some irony here but despite a life-long commitment to health, that is proper diet, cardio, weight training and so on, what can be briefly described as “an adventurous lifestyle” has left me with injuries that are really costing me today, 30 to 40 years later.

So, I would have not placed myself in such risk had I known...I’ll just let it go at that. Too much to say!

 

[358WCF]

I would have been born rich instead of good lookin'... & would have never started smoking.

 

[Jr solocam]

I think about this sometimes. Maybe I didn't retire for another 5 years. Im a type one diabetic and thought I should retire early. Guess I will never know.

 

[Will Henry]

I would have paid more attention to my surroundings in my sawmill days. Then I would still be right-handed! Seriously though, I made a few bad calls but, all in all, I have no real complaints. At 75, I still have time to make more mistakes, but I hope to avoid them. I sometimes think of things I could have done differently, but I'm pretty blessed, really. WH

 

[jackieschmidt]

Considering how things have turned out for the first 77 years, I am content with the life I have lived.

 

[Jr solocam]

I have been blessed with a great wife. Here is what makes me angry. I bought a $3000 Leica RF. Then I learned my left eye (dominant) is going blind. Should of bought a Bushnell or Vortes.

 

[Downhill]

As a Pipeliner, I was always on the road. Wanted my kids to have what I did not. It seems to me that I left for a project and they were all about waist high. When I got home, they were teenagers and young adults. I always made a point to call them every night and would talk for hours sometimes but it never felt really right. Missed their ball games, school activities and other events. When between projects they were always with me and we enjoyed our time together. But looking back it is the worst decision I have made. However with three grandchildren now I have decided that I will not make that mistake again. And I have "Drug up"( meaning to quit a project in pipeline lingo) on a few projects that demanded more time away from the little ones than I am willing to do. My regret is taking projects that kept me from home months at a time.

 

[Jr solocam]

As a younger guy I was a land surveyor and engineering tech. I went back to school and ended up in commercial lending. So I know about being away for a long time. Working 90 hour weeks. Banking was easier. Life is never easy.

 

[NorCalMikie]

No real regrets. 82 coming real soon. Wife has a few issues so SHE in my #1 job now. She and I talk about old folks till we realize, WE ARE the old folks.
Everything that I/We have done went just as planned. (not by me/her) Wouldn't change a thing, well maybe spending more time in bed with the wife. Funny how things don't work like they use to.
The thing now is getting rid of STUFF acuminated over the last 60+ years. If I g before hero, just hope she doesn't see my stuff for what I told her I paid for it. 60th. wedding anniversary in July so we havn't done too bad. Not much I would change.

 

[K22]

I think it's a rare individual who is in the 70's and looks back at their life and doesn't think about some things they would have done differently.

However, living in regret is counterproductive because you can't do anything about the past. You can only do something about the future. So, if you apply your life lessons to the future then something productive can result.

I think most of us wish we could have been born with the knowledge we have gain by life experiences but that is not the reality of life.

 

[topclass2017]

I have no regrets with where I am today. Everything I did has made me who I am today. I have never lived my life on shoulda's, coulda's, woulda's, and think it is a quick way to drive oneself crazy with regrets. Yesterday is the past, tomorrow the future. Today is a gift, that it is why its called the present.

 

[Gary in MD]

59 and retired
Regrets? I’ve got a few
But I did it my way…

 

[Diverjeff]

If I'd known I was going to live this long(70)I would've taken better care of myself.

 

[K22]

If I'd known I was going to live this long(70)I would've taken better care of myself.

Why, and miss all that fun you had being a bad boy.

 

[butchlambert]

I will add a little. My wife and I married 63 years ago about 2 weeks out of high school. We had it tough! The baby came very quick, I couldn't afford a battery for my old 55 Chevy and parked on a hill 5 blocks from home in order that I could push start it. I won't go on about the rest, but I now think it was very good for us in the long run.

 

[rijndael]

Hindsight is dangerous. I am living in the result of the sum of my prior decisions.

I’m pretty happy with where I’m at in life and I would be afraid that changes to decisions I made years ago would compromise my today.

I hope that I am playing my best hand, but I’m sure God will let me know at the end.

 

[jds holler]

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 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