I always wanted to be a vet but knew I wouldn't be able to cope seeing an animal in pain or putting one to sleep.

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Paul Harris

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I had a great idea for a plotline for a book but I just never actually started to write it

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ChocolateCake

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My husband did some work in Ukraine about 5 years ago, and made some friends there. They encouraged me to come back with him on one of the trips and would provide me a driver/translator for sightseeing during the day. I declined twice because it was an inconvenient time. Now I believe I will never see Ukraine in its true glory.

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ThisIsMe

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As you get older you realize that you regret more of the things you didn't do than the things you did. I wish I'd been a little more brave. My brother was a drug addict and it was a nightmare growing up, so I always wanted to be the 'good' kid. And so I was always trying to not get into trouble, which caused me to not take any risks. I ended up struggling a lot with pushing myself to do what I wanted, not what I thought I should do or what the most responsible thing was. I always took the safe route and while, yes, sometimes I think it was the best decision to do so, I often wish I'd spent some money to have fun instead of saving it. I wish I'd gone to that party or gone to see that concert even though I was by myself because I really wanted to. I wish I'd done something a little dangerous to have a good story. I only recently, in my forties, started feeling like I was living my life a little more and stopped caring as much if I was being responsible. I've been travelling a little bit and doing things I've never tried before. I wish I'd done it when I had more energy and could truly enjoy it.

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Kate Jones

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In nearly sixty-three years of life, there's a whole list, parked right next to my bucket list.

But one thing I regret is never having gone to culinary school.

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Joel Strauss

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I wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail. Unfortunately I didn't have the financial stability to allow for an extended time of not working. Now that I'm financially stable I can't do it because of a degenerative spinal disorder that makes walking difficult.

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The Mom

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Have a healthy relationship with a girl.

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bigfoot

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Build a holiday home for a family with a special semidetached studio for cancer patients so that they can holiday together but the patient can have a moments rest and privacy if needed. Make sure they have a lovely view, special paths easy to walk on (or wheel chair) in the garden. Lots of ill people can’t have this one holiday together with children and grandchildren because the holiday homes aren’t built for their needs.
I’ve decided to try to get funding and do it anyway as I feel it’s something I need to do. Find an architect, get funding and go for it.

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Caro Caro

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Study abroad - I didn't go becuse of a girl, broke up 2 weeks into the semester

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Box Top

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I have technically done this, but not completely. See, I am a foster child because mum's mental health was not good and my dad's skitsophrenia acted up and he was semi-abusive to my mum but not us. I have no memory of him. When I turned 14 I was finally allowed to see him because his mental health was better but because of COVID I couldn't. When restrictions were relaxed I was excited to meet him. I couldn't because he died when I was doing my prelims. I now have no memories with him.

TL:DR - I was excited to see my father for the first time but he was dead.

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Atchaco-Leigh

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have a threesome, be an assassin, a dancer, a mom, an actress,

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Helenium

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I regret never getting my driver's license. Now I'm unable to drive because of my meds.

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Rens

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for years i had planned that when i could i would take a trip to shikoku, japan and walk the path of the 88 temples. not take a bus but walk the path. i understood this would take around 3 months but that was okay with me. then, i was diagnosed with a degenerative bone disease and that this would impede my mobility. but, still i thought that i could do it and it would just take a little longer. as things happen, this disease has progressed faster than i anticipated. the thought of having issues overseas during this kind of trek concerned me so i thought maybe the appalachian trail. it would require a trek and take me through areas of our own history. apparently, my body has other plans as this crap is progressing faster. so far, have replaced a hip and am looking forward to replacing both knees in the next several months. [sigh..] on the positive side, at least i can return to the caribbean to scuba and attempt to get my deep dive certification. hell, at this time i would just appreicate floating in the ocean blue since water sports is the one thing that doesn't cause pain.

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talliloo

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Spend the rest of my life with my partner. YvY

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Basil Adler! (he/him)

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I've always wanted to get a life, but I'm 23, single, and I play video games. I also am a pokemon superfan which never helps.

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Smiley!

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Learning how to draw or create pictures digitally. I simply lack the natural talent, understanding of perspective and patience to do that. Also writing books, but why bother if nobody will ever read them?

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J. F.

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Publish an original novel. I've been writing since I was a kid, from short stories to novellas to full length novels. I've even written fan fiction and some articles. I've never submitted any of them though, even though pursuing that dream is.... it would be everything to me.

Of course the "dream goal" would be to make a living from it. Not get rich or anything, but just be able to do what I love and live comfortably. I keep telling myself, "maybe one day".

I always have these crazy ideas though. Like doing a long distance thru-hike or bike, setting up a big aquarium of some kind like for fish or maybe for hermit crabs, etc. Just lots of stuff that I always tell myself is silly.

I'm my own worst enemy.

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jolie laide

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I wanted to travel. I was supposed to leave sometime in May 2020.. well we know the rest.

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LeeAnne B

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I always wanted to jump rope without my brain going back to the bad parts of my ED.

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Happi doggi (all pronouns)

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Visit the European hometowns of my ancestors, from Germany, Norway, England, Scotland and Ireland to others that I haven't tracked down yet.

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HarriMissesScotland

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Lived in Spain (due to work) and I thought I'd stay there for more than 3 years. So I'd lay resting most of the time and barely traveled (even though Spain had so many places to explore).
I moved after a year.

Regretted? Yes.

I learned "never take things for granted" the hard way.

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Arisunji°

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I need to find a business partner to focus on the people problems while I do amazing tech things.

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Bob Stuart

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Start a business.

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Procrastinating Panda

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I can't complain really. I've done a lot of bucket list things to this point and for many more it is not too late. If I regret not doing one thing it has to be back when I was early teens. A sculptor lived near us and offered to give me lessons on art/sculpting. Life might have turned out very different.

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Chich

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I've always wanted to be an actor in a musical. I'll let you know if anything changes 👍

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And my name's Jennifer

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Move to Japan and have a new life.

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AntiHorario

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Be with someone of the same sex, always been attracted to men and women, but unlike most of my friends who experimented in college, I was too busy studying, so never tried it despite several offers.

I'm now happily married to my husband, but always wonder what could've happened if I'd gone for it.

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When I was in grade 5 I was interested in astronomy and turned out to be very good at it, as in so advanced my teacher/slash astronomy club educator had to scramble to find stuff to keep me from getting bored. He had connections in the astronomy community, but we moved, so he never had a chance to introduce me to people who could have taken my life in that direction. But, I have never lost my fascination with any of it and it has expanded into so many different areas.
I would like to have gone back to school to learn architectural design to help design hospitals and units within the hospital that work, for the nurses and patients. So many architects and designers don't understand how things work in there, and so we walk into a totally completed project that we know is not going to work.
My real dream could still happen. Because of covid they have put the program on hold. At the Addison Airport in TX, at the museum they have different historic planes that still fly. When I go to visit next, if the program is back on, I'm going up in a P52 Mustang. It costs some bucks, but I don't care. You only live once, and I'm in the last quarter.

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Have a teenage romance. Between debilitating social anxiety and a strict religious upbringing I never could bring myself to date in high school. I'm now almost 40 and in a great relationship, but I always look back with regret at all the things I missed out on by not having young love.

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I started to write a book with my friend. We wanted to make it a series. It was about a world which only had dragons and two continents. The series would be in the dragons perspective. My friend quit halfway through book 1. I continued to write it, disheartened, but near the end of book 1, I quit too.

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#DreamSMPistheBest1

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Write and / or illustrate a children's book. Sadly, children's publishing is an extremely closed loop with some very unimaginative and limited rulesets at play. It's also very much a case of "Not what you know but who you know / who you suck up to" (Unless of course you're a celebrity, when you can have a lovely little book ghostwritten for you and become the industry darling literally overnight).

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Peej Maybe

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I've always wanted to see, touch the Whale calves in their nursery off SanLucia in the Baja.

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Susan Atkinson

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Run for office. Also had opportunity to go on anthropology trip but disabled and trip not Ada friendly. A publisher wanted to publish my novel when I was 16 but it was a short story at the time and I didn’t know how to write a novel. Apparently I have a list. Right now it would be running for public office, but I can’t win a debate with my kids sooooo

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Monica Michelle

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When I was younger, in my 20's and 30's, I wrote about 200 songs. I used to perform in coffeehouses, at folk festivals, even on the radio sometimes. One thing I wanted to do was to record my songs, since I never actually wrote down the music to them. I just wrote down the lyrics for each, and the music for them is all in my head. Now I am 59, and my voice is nowhere near what it used to be. I haven't sung in almost 10 years.

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Lyone Fein

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So many things. Dreams? Thought I’d be an archeologist some day. Then 9/11 made everyone around me talk crazy and I became afraid. A lone woman in Egypt? Impossible (I thought). Wanted to be a vet. Had a full ride (college) but got pregnant, got married, miscarried, and life went on. Had a secret dream of being a psychologist but just found out I have some mental health issues which means I can’t. But that’s okay. Idk what I’ll do or where I’ll end up but I think it’s okay to not find something. I might just spend my life with cats on my lap and a good book!

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Kyndal T

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Always wanted to spray graffiti. Always was too scared.

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Jelly

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I wish I had tried to become a professional rapper.(I know, I just laughed, myself, when I reread that out loud.) But I was introduced to rap music at an inappropriately, early age and for some strange reason, always connected to it. I am a white woman, from a middle class neighborhood in Texas and never could understand why it touched me so deeply, when in many aspects, I really couldn’t relate.
Anyway, I secretly wrote raps my whole life and I never shared this with people until older. In my thirties, I found a singing karaoke app and started playing around with writing my own lyrics to pre-made beats and feel like I’m not too bad and there could have been some potential there.. lol oh well, I wrote rap songs for my daughter and her friends as they were growing up and that was a lot of fun and great memories attached to those days, so I’ll always have that to look back on. That’s way better than fortune and fame anyway, right? So why am I even writing this? Who knows, maybe in my eighties, I will release an album called Fake Friends, Depends and False Teeth and it will go DIAPER PLATINUM ! What?!??

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I wanted to play Major League baseball, & I believe I could have, if it wasn't for my total lack if talent.

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Matthew Jameson

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Become a doctor, but then I have the fastest hands ever, so I'll probably kill everyone

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Andrei Marentette

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Sorry, but the question is ambiguous. I.E. Let's say, that I wanted to throw a chipmunk into a fire, but I never did. However, I still could?

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Steve Barnett

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I was invited to go on a small archeological dig in my neighborhood. I never went, and I regret not pursueing my interest in archeology more.

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LaDoula

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Stand up to my dad saying that I’m the reason his life is stressful and that I’m not aloud to wear dresses at school( my behind isn’t even big I’m flat so I don’t understand his concerns)

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aricely

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Commit suicide.
I'm glad I didn't, I've found small joys in life :)

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Chicken Tacos R Better

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Go back to taking dance classes. It's just not the same when you know you'll never actually dance on stage in a production because they want young dancers. I'll have to take adult classes for "hEaLtH rEaSoNs". That just sounds gruelling and redundant when you want to go somewhere with it. I'm nearing 40, not in the best shape with my lower half and I was never able to get a good turn out, nor had the flexibility dance companies are looking for. Although I was always told my arm movements were beautiful and I had a good timing with the music. Still, we moved around too much and I never got past the 2nd Grade of ballet. I really wanted to get to pointe classes. I guess it's a good thing I missed that stage from what I've been hearing what it does to your feet and body.

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StarmanWaitingInTheSky

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Show off my successful achievements in life to my exfiance, telling him I'm doing well without him. But then I found out that I'm way too busy enjoying my life than to make time just to see him.

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恵実子 幸持

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Study abroad - I didn't go becuse of a girl, broke up 2 weeks into the semester

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Box Top

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Clinb one of the Higher mountains outside of the US climbed quite a few in the Rockies but blew my chances while serving in the Army in Europe

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ARMYCHAMEALON

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