The Guardian – Top five regrets of the dying

[BronnParticipant 56]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying

This is amazing. All of the regrets that dying men have boil down to one thing – Don’t get married!

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

[OldBillParticipant]

Look at the first one listed; “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”

What is that but a man wishing he had gone his own way?

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[Anonymous 42]

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
B.C.F.C. forever!

2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard. I’m glad beyond imagination I went out and played so hard! I know where I am standing on any mountain in New England and able to name the others and the valleys between them! Work hard, play hard, fill up both buckets! MY SANDBOX!

3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings. I thank GOD I had the b~~~~ to stand up against the entire world, and still be standing strong and firm at the end of the beating!

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends. I wish many of my past “friends” had stuck to the “code” of honoring friendship! Unfortunate but necessary to cut a mutineer loose and let him drift away in the open ocean. It keeps one’s ship tidy and prevents it’s eventual burning.

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
I can’t ask more from the full plate of cherished memories life offered free for the taking!
I went to “Camp Flying Lead LLC”, Vermont, there was a hook on a chain-fall attached to the ridgeboard at camp flying lead, VT. If you’re struck by flying lead at camp flying lead, Vermont all you’ll get is their sign “Camp Flying Lead” hanging over the wood stove @ Camp Flying Lead, Vermont. Every stitch of property is legally rented between each other, the corporation only owns a sign!

Beware when visiting places like Camp Flying Lead, VT. and keep your head down!

Another golden memory and resulting wisdom locked in the head of MG-Tower

[BronnParticipant 56]

Anonymous wrote:

B.C.F.C. forever!

*Googles BCFC*
Birmingham City FC? or Bristol City FC?

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I thought number 2 was pretty telling “I wish I hadn’t worked so hard”

“This came from every male patient that I nursed.”
“Women also spoke of this regret, but as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners.”

As if those poor bastards were working for their own benefit. At least most women get to live long, full lives.

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22571]

It is not a regret if you did not have a choice in the matter. That you were denied happiness and success at every turn.

Bitterness. Yes. But, not regret.

[BigvernParticipant 1983]

They forgot Number 6.

6. To have ever read, The Guardian.

"What made you think, there'd be a livin' in sheep?, Eat, Work, Eat Work and Sleep" - Mark Knopfler.

[AutoliteParticipant]

I heard that one of the biggest regrets was “all the time spent worrying about things that just never happened”.

This has never made any sense to me. You couldn’t have known that something had never happened until you get to the end of your life and and it didn’t…

[Sky-OParticipant 18950]

If those are the top five, apparently I’m not going to have any regrets when I die.

This is good news.

[NerevarParticipant 8040]

Bronn wrote:

MG-ɹǝʍo┴ wrote:

B.C.F.C. forever!

*Googles BCFC*
Birmingham City FC? or Bristol City FC?

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I thought number 2 was pretty telling “I wish I hadn’t worked so hard”

“This came from every male patient that I nursed.”
“Women also spoke of this regret, but as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners.”

As if those poor bastards were working for their own benefit. At least most women get to live long, full lives.

Maybe it’s BeCause F~~~ C~~~s?

"One of the best things internet exposed is just how insane women are." - Freeman_K

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