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Haha, I was IN One World Trade Center on 9/11, and when AA11 slammed into us, the building was shuddering, ceiling coming down, fire and smoke spewing from a nearby elevator, and my coworker screamimg ,"we are going to DIE!" and I thought, Damn, she might be right, you know what my next thought was?
My divorce had been final a few months earlier, and I was just starting to think about dating, so my thought was, "On no, I am only 43 and I never got to have sex again!"
It's a bit disconcerting to remember how shallow my mind was when facing my possible death.
Anyway, I lived. And I got to have sex again. AND was cured of the fear of death after that, too.
Not shallow in the least! We tend to discount the seemingly mundane but essential daily matters, such as enjoying a good meal, or that feeling of satisfied elation after a successful set of exercises in the gym. These matter immensely, regardless of our age or station in life.
But they're not the same as big, grandiose bucket-list type of goals. Of the latter, I have none, and desire none. Far from being defeatist or morose, it's a... sense of relief.
My fear would be in that last instant/fraction of a second what if there WAS in fact, something you regretted? Way too late to change.
The value in this type of question is not the inane "you'd be dead" responses but rather the "Hmmmm. Maybe I will take that trip to DisneyLand next year."
I am reminded of an old time Hollywood Director/Mogul, who was having a bad day on the set, and said "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive".
It could be that some people are just interested in answering the original question, and don't really care to read the opinions of the previous 24.
Which are exactly the same as their own.
It's OK, people can say that 100 times if they have a burning desire, but I always wonder when I see such repetitive Captain Obvious responses scores of posts in--did they really imagine that they were the first ones to say it? Or don't they care? I for one do care, so I would check, but that's me.
Perhaps this is a subject for the Psychology forum on a slow day.
"Regret" to me means something major -- not just a run-of-the-mill I wish I had, or it would have been nice if.....kind of things.
So I really don't have any "regrets."
I'm pretty much at peace with what I've done and haven't done.
I do have some "I wish I had or had nots" but nothing I haven't made peace with.
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