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I'm sure at some moment in life people have thought of something they wanted to do but they never actually did it. What is one time this happened to you?
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#1
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.
Final score:
24points
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#2
I had a great idea for a plotline for a book but I just never actually started to write it
Final score:
20points
#3
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.
Final score:
19points
#4
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.
Final score:
17points
Susie Elle 2 years ago
That's too bad, OP, and I'm sorry that's how things were for you growing up. However, the need to experience things in the way you would have if you'd been someone else is a desire that simply cannot be fulfilled because it's a situation that can't exist ('someone else' can be a different person or a past version of yourself). Instead, try to identify what it is that would make you happy right now, in this moment. Having fun is not reserved only for the young :) I wonder; how does having more or less energy keep you from truly enjoying things?
#5
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.
Final score:
14points
#6
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.
Final score:
14points
#7
Have a healthy relationship with a girl.
Final score:
13points
Lyone Fein 2 years ago
This becomes more likely the older you get. As you learn more about being a person, about being in relationships, and about how to treat other people.
#8
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.
Final score:
13points
#9
Study abroad - I didn't go becuse of a girl, broke up 2 weeks into the semester
Final score:
12points
#10
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.
Final score:
10points
HarriMissesScotland 2 years ago
I am so sorry that you are dealing with this. Death of a parent under any circumstance is never easy, but your father's death is even more tragic. Are there any family members that can tell you about the good times in his life? I know it isn't the same, but maybe it would help. If at all possible, I would suggest that you go to a support group or counseling. Being a teenager is hard enough without losing a parent in more ways than one. I wish I could reach through the screen a just hug you, and know that there are many people here who will support you. I hope that you have supportive family or friends to help you. Or, just pop on here and track me down. I will always listen.
#11
have a threesome, be an assassin, a dancer, a mom, an actress,
Final score:
8points
#12
I regret never getting my driver's license. Now I'm unable to drive because of my meds.
Final score:
8points
Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago
Is it possible for you to take the perspective of not contributing to air pollution?
#13
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.
Final score:
8points
Lyone Fein 2 years ago
Physical pain and degeneration is disruptive to so many of our plans. I am sorry you are going through this.
#14
Spend the rest of my life with my partner. YvY
Final score:
7points
#15
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.
Final score:
7points
P.A.B. 2 years ago
Go for it…whatever “it” is!!! You may feel old at 23, but before you know it, you’ll be 33, and regret wasting 10 years! You are in the prime of your life, and if I’d have known then what I know now, I would have been bolder and more open to new adventures. The first step is always the hardest, but it’s also the most rewarding! Go for what you want! I’m routing for you…good luck!!!
#16
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?
Final score:
7points
Susie Elle 2 years ago
Assuming nobody will read your books is killing an idea based on an assumption, and assumption is the mother of all f**k-ups :) (doo itttt)
Wintermute 2 years ago
I've written 3 books. Only a few people have read them. Someday I may get around to publishing them, but so far the satisfaction of just doing it has been immense. That in itself is a worthy goal, and you don't need the validation of the masses to make it worth doing.
#17
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.
Final score:
7points
HarriMissesScotland 2 years ago
Easier said than done, but just do it. None of what you mentioned is silly. It all sounds amazing to me. Need a cheerleader? I'll be one for you! One step at a time...you can do it!
#18
I wanted to travel. I was supposed to leave sometime in May 2020.. well we know the rest.
Final score:
6points
HarriMissesScotland 2 years ago
I miss traveling, but am not longer able to due to lack of funds. I traveled when I could and never regretted it.
#19
I always wanted to jump rope without my brain going back to the bad parts of my ED.
Final score:
6points
#20
Visit the European hometowns of my ancestors, from Germany, Norway, England, Scotland and Ireland to others that I haven't tracked down yet.
Final score:
6points
Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago
My grandfather managed to trace his family tree back to the 900s…it helped that they were all English!
#21
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.
Final score:
6points
#22
I need to find a business partner to focus on the people problems while I do amazing tech things.
Final score:
5points
#23
Start a business.
Final score:
5points
#24
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.
Final score:
5points
Lyone Fein 2 years ago
You can still take a class in this. Check out a community college or university art department near you.
#25
I've always wanted to be an actor in a musical. I'll let you know if anything changes 👍
Final score:
5points
#26
Move to Japan and have a new life.
Final score:
5points
Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago
When I turned 50 I moved to Thailand and lived there for nearly a year.
#27
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.
Final score:
5points
kasei10 2 years ago (edited)
Whilst I have noted in another one that threesomes are overrated, maybe it's something you could look into/discuss with your husband? Even though they are overrated, I don't think it's an experience I'd erase from my mind if I had the choice, it was fun, both times. And as long as you go into it with a healthy mind set and all of the rules worked out...
#28
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.
Final score:
5points
#29
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.
Final score:
5points
DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago
This one hit really close to home. I had really strict parents, social anxiety and I always pined over the wrong people. All lead to no good experiences.
#30
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.
Final score:
5points
Hagen Radcliffe 2 years ago
A book from the dragons perspective ?! What an amazing idea, I’d read that in a hot minute!
#31
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).
Final score:
4points
#32
I've always wanted to see, touch the Whale calves in their nursery off SanLucia in the Baja.
Final score:
4points
#33
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
Final score:
4points
Jette Wang Wahnon 2 years ago
Do like Joseph Kennedy and get your kids in public office....or maybe not be so ambitious..see what happened to the Kennedys....I would go for the novel...
#34
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.
Final score:
4points
Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago
I gave up singing in successively better choirs over the course thirty years because it began to impinge on my birding time, which I had thrown myself into after seeing a bird so outrageously glorious that all I could do was laugh
#35
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!
Final score:
3points
#36
Always wanted to spray graffiti. Always was too scared.
Final score:
3points
Jette Wang Wahnon 2 years ago
Go for it...plenty of places now-a-days that are not off-limit...also join a group of graffitti artists
#37
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?!??
Final score:
3points
#38
I wanted to play Major League baseball, & I believe I could have, if it wasn't for my total lack if talent.
Final score:
3points
#39
Become a doctor, but then I have the fastest hands ever, so I'll probably kill everyone
Final score:
2points
Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago
By fastest do you mean like gaming fast? Because there have been studies written up in medical journals that surgeons who’ve been gamers are faster and make fewer errors than non-gaming surgeons.
#40
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?
Final score:
2points
#41
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.
Final score:
2points
#42
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)
Final score:
2points
Hagen Radcliffe 2 years ago
Your father is wrong. YOU are not the reason for anything in his life. YOU are not responsible for any problem a grown man has in his life. I wish I could reach out & hug you. XOXO
#43
Commit suicide.
I'm glad I didn't, I've found small joys in life :)
Final score:
2points
#44
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.
Final score:
2points
#45
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.
Final score:
2points
#46
Study abroad - I didn't go becuse of a girl, broke up 2 weeks into the semester
Final score:
1point
#47
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
Final score:
1point
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