[quote]Professor X wrote:
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.
Unless everything that doesn’t happen does happen in a seperate consciousness we are unaware of.[/quote]
Whoa thats like some X-men shit right there!
I regret not wrestling until my senior year of high school. It’s not my biggest, but it’s the one that comes to mind at the moment.
My biggest regret was (I’m over it now) having unprotected sex over Christmas break my freshman year in college. Now I have a 4 year old son. Guess she took the wrong pill. When I told my dad that he was going to be a grandfather, he just looked at me and said, “It is what it is. Get used to it and get over it, cause it’s too late to pull out now.”
[quote]aikigreg wrote:
Say…where do you keep that hanky…your purse?
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the same place your wife carries your balls around with her…
[quote]spartanpower wrote:
I regret not wrestling until my senior year of high school. It’s not my biggest, but it’s the one that comes to mind at the moment.
My biggest regret was (I’m over it now) having unprotected sex over Christmas break my freshman year in college. Now I have a 4 year old son. Guess she took the wrong pill. When I told my dad that he was going to be a grandfather, he just looked at me and said, “It is what it is. Get used to it and get over it, cause it’s too late to pull out now.”[/quote]
You regret having a child? Hmmm…most people at the time when it’s in the womb regret that it’s there, but after it’s out, they fuckin love that they did it. Maybe you regret having it with that certain woman?
Please clarify for your own good!
T
[quote]IronGame08 wrote:
I dated a girl in high school for a couple years. She was incredible…[/quote]
“There’ll be another bus along in 20 minutes.”
– What my great-grandmother used to tell my father, whenever he was pining over some girl. And she was right.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
1-I wish I was little bit taller,
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good
I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
and a '64 Impala
I wish I was like six-foot-nine
So I could get with Leoshi
Cause she don’t know me but yo she’s really fine
You know I see her all the time
Everywhere I go, and even in my dreams
I can scheme of ways to make her mine
Cause I know she’s livin phat
Her boyfriend’s tall and he plays ball
So how am I gonna compete with that
'Cause when it comes to playing basketball
I’m always last to be picked
And in some cases never picked at all
So I just lean upon the wall
Or sit up in the bleachers with the rest of the girls
Who came to watch their men ball
Dag y’all! I never understood
Why the jocks get the fly girls
And me I get the hood rats
I tell 'em scat, skittle, skibobble
Got hit with a bottle
And put in the hospital, for talkin’ that mess
I confess it’s a shame when you livin’ in a city
That’s the size of a box and nobody knows yo’ name
Glad I came to my senses
Like quick-quick got sick-sick to my stomach
Overcome with my thoughts of me and her together
Right?
So when I asked her out she said I wasn’t her type
I wish I had a brand-new car
So far, I got this hatchback
And everywhere I go, yo I gets laughed at
And when I’m in my car I’m laid back
I got an 8-track and a spare tire in the backseat
But that’s flat
And do you really wanna know what’s really wack, What
See I can’t even get a date
So, what do you think of that?
I heard that prom night is the bomb night
With a hood rat you can hold tight
But really tho’ on figuero
When I’m in my car I can’t even get a hello
Well so many people wanna cruise Crenshaw on Sunday
Well then I’m gonna have to get in my car and go
You know I take the 110 to the 105
Get off on Crenshaw tell my homies look alive
Cause it’s hard to survive
Livin’ in a concrete jungle and
These girls just keep passin’ me by
She looks fly, she looks fly
Makes me say my, my, my
I wish I was a little bit taller…
I wish I was a baller…
I wish I was a little bit taller y’all
I wish I was a baller
Hey, I wish I had my way
'Cause everyday would be a Friday
You could even speed on the highway
I would play ghetto games
Name my kids ghetto names
Little Mookie, big Al, Lorraine
Yo you know that’s on the real
So if you’re down on your luck
Then you should know just how I feel
Cause if you don’t want me around
See I go simple, I go easy, I go greyhound
Hey, you, what’s that sound?
Everybody look what’s going down
Ahhhh, yes, ain’t that fresh?
Everybody wants to get down like that
I wish, I wish, I wish…[/quote]
Wow, way to pull out the Skee-Lo…I haven’t heard that in a very long time
[quote]The Mage wrote:
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.)
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I did this for years an am also the only male in my family below 6". Well barely below. But my motivation was to use the money I had for lunch to buy stuff to smoke. So I had a double whammy.
But my absolute worst regret is loosing touch with my best friend. He was the most loyal person I ever knew, besides my wife. He backed me up from the time we were 5 years old all the way till the day I got married. I lost touched with him after a few years of living in a different state and although some of the letters I got from him should have clued me in I didin’t realize how much trouble he was having emotionally. I mean he’s a dude, we don’t have issues like that. Well he’s dead now, and not a day goes by that I don’t think about him. Wish I could go back in time.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Anyone…and I mean anyone…who is worrying about some chick from high school has not lived much at all. That should have flown out of the window his first semester of college unless they were about to get married.
I had a “crush” on one girl in high school. I found an old pic of her a few years later and clearly I was insane when I was 15 years old. People change as they grow up. That means, chances are, she isn’t even the same person years later that she was in high school.
High school isn’t real life anyway. It is like “hyper-pop media-pseudo wannabe real life”.[/quote]
Yes, peoples recollections are notoriously unreliable. We colour them with nostalgia and perception.
Whilst i can appreciate what the first poster says, a little perspective should be delivered. Maybe she wasn’t that goo, and in fact the other girls have been terrible.
It is ok to miss and look back, and even think that if there again, you may act differently, but dont regret.
The next time you get a cracking girl or a great oppotunity, i am sure you will remember that and act differently.
[quote]TOTrev wrote:
spartanpower wrote:
I regret not wrestling until my senior year of high school. It’s not my biggest, but it’s the one that comes to mind at the moment.
My biggest regret was (I’m over it now) having unprotected sex over Christmas break my freshman year in college. Now I have a 4 year old son. Guess she took the wrong pill. When I told my dad that he was going to be a grandfather, he just looked at me and said, “It is what it is. Get used to it and get over it, cause it’s too late to pull out now.”
You regret having a child? Hmmm…most people at the time when it’s in the womb regret that it’s there, but after it’s out, they fuckin love that they did it. Maybe you regret having it with that certain woman?
Please clarify for your own good!
T
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Now it’s a definite “NO.” I always wanted to have kids, but not at 19. It was a very difficult thing to deal with while I finished school. It made it very difficult to find a job after school, because I had to make sure the job was in the Pittsburgh area. Now that I’m out of school and I’ve found a job, those two things are no longer negatives.
Now that the negatives have been worked out, this is my life now. It’s just normal to me. There are some aspsects that I love about it and some I’m not so fond of. I love my little boy, and I can’t wait to pick him up tomorrow. I don’t like the fact that it didn’t work out with his mother. I don’t want any more kids, so now I have to be sure that whoever I do end up with is ok with only having a stepson.
It’s difficult to find women that don’t want kids, and the kind of women that don’t are usually not my type. My current gf isn’t sure if she wants kids or not. I love her to death, but I’m not going to have kids with her just for her sake. I see this more as her problem than mine. If I have to be single forever because I don’t want any more kids then so be it, I’ll be fine.
Hope this clears things up.
[quote]spartanpower wrote:
TOTrev wrote:
spartanpower wrote:
Now that the negatives have been worked out, this is my life now. It’s just normal to me. There are some aspsects that I love about it and some I’m not so fond of. I love my little boy, and I can’t wait to pick him up tomorrow. I don’t like the fact that it didn’t work out with his mother. I don’t want any more kids, so now I have to be sure that whoever I do end up with is ok with only having a stepson.
It’s difficult to find women that don’t want kids, and the kind of women that don’t are usually not my type. My current gf isn’t sure if she wants kids or not. I love her to death, but I’m not going to have kids with her just for her sake. I see this more as her problem than mine. If I have to be single forever because I don’t want any more kids then so be it, I’ll be fine.
Hope this clears things up.[/quote]
Sounds like you got your shit together and pushed through a lot of adversity. It’s good to be brutally honest with yourself and others. But you might want to be careful about how honest you are around your son when he’s old enough to understand. You may want to guide him to not make the same mistake, but he may not deal with the fact that he was the considered the mistake very well.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Unless everything that doesn’t happen does happen in a seperate consciousness we are unaware of.[/quote]
There is what they call Non-Being.
[quote]AverageJay wrote:
Sounds like you got your shit together and pushed through a lot of adversity. It’s good to be brutally honest with yourself and others. But you might want to be careful about how honest you are around your son when he’s old enough to understand. You may want to guide him to not make the same mistake, but he may not deal with the fact that he was the considered the mistake very well.
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Excellent point. I’ve thought about how I will deal with that when the time comes. The words “brutally honest” definitely don’t describe what I had in mind. That said, I have no idea how to handle it at this moment. His mom and I are still friendly and we talk regularly, so that’s something that we will have to discuss together.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Unless everything that doesn’t happen does happen in a seperate consciousness we are unaware of.[/quote]
Ok Sybil.
I was about to open similar thread so instead I will bring this thread back to life. I regret studying economics (or business with bit of economics) despite the fact that I was never very interested in either topic so naturally nothing good came out of it. I did finish it (undergrad), however I did not like my faculty and extraordinarily bad attitude from some professor did not help at all. I will probably just finish master in slightly different subject (which I also do not like very much) and then try to build another career where degree is not needed. But if I had option to turn back time I would study something useful and interesting like kinesiology, physiotherapy or occupational therapy or maybe sports.
Biggest regret? Not posting in this thread 18 years ago.
But seriously, the fact that I stopped playing organized hockey in middle school. Not because I could have made it to the NHL (I would have), but because I regret not having those memories, friendships, and life lessons learned from high school and college sports.
I’m lucky that I get to spend time on the ice with my son now, coach, and interact with the local high school and college team. But in watching those high school and college teammates together, I see what I missed.
To steal a line from a friend who played college hockey, what I want for my kid out of this sport is that when he’s an adult he can call up an old teammate on a random Thursday to go to a game because he has an extra ticket.
I was gonna comfort the first guy and tell him he’d meet another girl in time but then realized the post was from 2006
he’s probably married with 5 kids by now lmao
. Well. It still stands.
OctoberGirls titties. I’d have liked to have seen more of them.
I regret that I didn’t brew beer after college.
I live in Texas and the “craft brew” trend was late for us given archaic laws around alcohol, and distilling liquor was a big no-no until pretty recently.
There were loopholes and restrictive allowances for beer, however. This meant competing against bud/miller/Coors and Shiner Bock for the most part.
If you put “Texas” or a shape of the state on anything you’re selling in Texas, it will sell.
I did a college project around brewing beer, branding it as Texas brewed, distributing through local bars, family owned convenience stores and then courting distributors for major retail distribution.
After successfully setting up channels, the growth plan was to move to Puerto Rico or Costa Rica and distill liquor to ship back through my channels.
Timing would’ve worked out that I would have been in the running with all the breweries InBev bought up 5-10 years ago, and I would’ve beat most of them to market looking back at timelines.
If I had a crystal ball….
An older cousin of mine was doing this with ukranian wheat vodka and rum from costa rica or somewhere at around this time and a few years prior.
Not the greatest stuff but for house drinks & shots it intersected at good enough/cheap enough.
He did pretty good with it for a while, but succumbed to the family curse about 5 years ago.
Bummer! Sorry to hear it man. He was on to something.