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When I was young, my grandmother would say to me when I started wishing things were different, "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride"
Go into action for your dreams so you don't woulda, coulda, and shoulda all over yourself because it's harder to live with your regrets when you're old.
"First spouse" seems to be a unanimous choice for "wish I didn't", but I don't see it that way. All my ex-es, whether I married them or not, were fine women that I admire and respect to this day, and made positive contributions to what has been a fulfilling life.
One day I overheard the talk of a few guys hanging out on a bench. One of the guy's ex was mentioned, and was being lightly bad-mouthed. Finally he said "Aw, she wasn't so bad. I couldn't give her what she wanted, and she found someone who could -- God bless her." A town derelict changed my whole way of thinking.
"I never saw you dance with your feet off the ground -- but I see it now" -- Tracy Lawrence
1) I wish I did___________-Killed my sadistic Mother when I was a child/teen; any facility in which Id've then been placed would have been better than life in her home
2) I wish I hadn't _________-left my first husband; he had money, looks and brains, all three.
3) I wish I could __________-feel emotions other than disgust, envy and disdain
1) I wish I did_________ Listened to my mom.
Not listening to your mom is part of growing up but in my case; surely, I am a contender for one of the worst, most epic failures of honoring my mother, by not heeding her warnings. I ... am an RN. My mother ... was a double PhD Research Scientist. And I ... am an idiot, to think that somehow, her maternal status invalidated her status as an authority in matters of science.
It was early in the 1990s that my mother, on a rare weekend home from her lab (200 miles away), handed me a file folder full of documents & said; “We have a problem with our ********. Please read this.” I remember that I rolled my eyes & sighed. I never read it.
Unknown to me at that time; the consequences of my idiocy would affect two of my future children; one now long since buried & one permanently & severely disabled. If the warning would have come from anyone else of her stature in science I would have heeded them. Unfortunately, it never did. And still hasn’t.
2) I wish I hadn't _________ Ignored my gut instinct in 2003 & consented to a tubal ligation following the birth of my youngest son.
How was I to know that reproduction had become such a social/political hot-potato after Erlich’s “The Population Bomb” was published in 1968? I was an infant in 1968, born halfway around the world. How was I to know that social/political hot potatoes can result in flexible standards of “statistical significance’, or that med students are not educated on matters that are not statistically significant?
Consequence? A decade of chronic & progressive loss of health that took three surgeries & nine blood transfusions to fix. But it’s fixed now ... meaning; I’m happily un-fixed.
3) I wish I could __________ Be heard. Thank you!
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