I regret that I ordered the code red.
–Col. Jessep
I regret drafting Sam Bowie.
–Jack Ramsay
I regret letting Bill Gates keep the rights to MS-DOS.
–IBM
[quote]malonetd wrote:
I regret that I ordered the code red.
–Col. Jessep[/quote]
Rofl.
I regret opening that box.
–Pandora
I regret going to see that play.
–Abe Lincoln
I regret going to sleep that night.
–John Bobbit
I regret being the teacher selected to fly on the Challenger.
–Sharon McAuliffe
Regrets? Well I regret being a stupid wimp as a teen.
In jr. high I actually thought the way to lose fat was to skip breakfast and lunch. Instead I was malnourished during a major growth period in my life. (I am now the only guy in my family under 6 feet, and that includes a 6’4" brother.)
Then I always tried to be the nice guy in school, and ended up just letting people walk all over me. Early in my high school years I was trained in Tae Kwan Do, and yet I let a guy punch me without fighting back.
Later on a group of girls came up to me, showed me a picture of one of them telling me she didn’t think she looked good in the picture. I said she looked fine. She argued, so I decided I wasn’t going to play any stupid games, and said, “Ok, your ugly.”
Well she didn’t get that I wasn’t being so serious, and looking back I realize how obvious it was that they were trying to actually find out what I thought of her. (She was soooo cute. I like cute.) I had no self esteem, and the thought of a girl actually being interested in me was thought of as a joke.
I now have another 20 years of experiences, and my biggest regret is that I have more new “learning experiences” to come. (Or is that a good thing?)
Every “regret” is a learning experience, and works to make us better, if we are willing to learn from the experiences. Otherwise we just wallow in our own self pity, and I did enough of that in my teen years. I would rather not waste my time worrying about the past, and instead prepare for the future.
Kaizen. (Great philosophy, look it up.)
I regret not starting lifting until I was in my late 30s. I face that one every day I’m in the gym.
Say…where do you keep that hanky…your purse?
[quote]DPH wrote:
IronGame08 wrote:
I don’t know if I will ever get her out of my mind and heart. And this shit has been going on for two years now…365 days a year I think about her…
once again I have totally underestimated how emotionally delicate so many of the testosterone driven ‘men’ are around here…
if I was around you I’d give you a hanky to cry in…
if you find yourself saying this crap in another twenty years go ahead and shoot yourself…[/quote]
I will not call you a wimp but you are acting wimpy. I had the same suituation once except the want to be married BS.
I called her up , she was already divorced at 24 no surprises.
The suprise was my perfect girl was a mean spirited bitch, always was. Memories are like dreams they are not always reality.
I felt better after I fucked her ass and dumped her.
Dude no woman is worth being this upset over.
Xalfred’s law of love
1 out of 100 woman would be the perfect soul mate (Here is the big but to that) BUT only 1 out of 100 of these perfect soul mates is availible and has their shit together when we do which brings the number to 1 in 10000.
Stop crying find someone new. Everyone is replacable.
If this chick got hit by a bus today are you going to shrink wrap your penis for the next sixty years crying about her.
Build a bridge and get over it.
[quote]Gregatron wrote:
I regret reading this thread.
[/quote]
Classic.
Two men entered hell, and a devil asks - “Now how’d you end up here?”
The first man:
“Unrequited love - We were made for each other, meant to be together, and I’ll never find another like her - the woman I wished to marry. But she loved another man, and married him instead.”
The demon asks the second man, “And you? How’d you find yourself in this hell?”
The second man:
“I married that woman!”
When we regret, it’s that we wished to have taken another course, another possibility. But what is possible?
Only one thing is possible - That which happens.
Everything possible must happen, and anything that never happens was never possible in the first place.
[quote]Kailash wrote:
When we regret, it’s that we wished to have taken another course, another possibility. But what is possible?
Only one thing is possible - That which happens.
Everything possible must happen, and anything that never happens was never possible in the first place.[/quote]
Unless everything that doesn’t happen does happen in a seperate consciousness we are unaware of.
It is ours only to act, not to accept the fruit of action. The fruit depends on many things beyond that which is ours, the action itself. So act, but without an eye to the fruit.
There is always good fruit and bad fruit from every action. In this way, no action is good or bad in itself. But by accepting the good fruit, one accepts the bad for themselves as well.
To keep this in understanding is to achieve liberation.
My recommendation is to read “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas. It will make you think twice about regret, and it has been and will continue to be the single biggest literary motivator in my life.
I can truly honestly say that I have no regrets. Now THAT’S that way to go through life…
In high school, I stood by while 4 white bullies from my neighborhood basically picked a fight and beat up a smaller black boy for no reason. By doing nothing, I made a bad situation worse. I would have gotten my butt handed to me but if I could live that day over again, I would have done something. I think about that day often.