What is something that you'll never get to do that bums you out?

[Tinordi]

Discover a wild new place an ocean away.

[driveway]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

An interesting thread topic . . . . .

I'd love to be able to draw, to be an artist of some type . . . . . unfortunately, even my stick men suck.

I can still paint an image with a camera better than a lot of people. I can also write descriptively fairly well. Neither is the same.

That's not a regret though. Just a limitation.

Cowperson

Seriously, buy this book and follow it: http://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-Sp.../dp/1585421464

If you can see well enough to compose a photographic image, you can learn to draw.

edit: And for my regret ... I regret that I will never throw a corked-out misty-flip in a halfpipe.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by Huntingwhale

If there's no way you can do something, then there is really no point in being bummed out about it.

I take satisfaction in the things I have and can do. I have a great life, a strong relationship, excellent health, great children and awesome friends. I'm fortunate.

On topic, I will never get to rock in front of 18,000 adoring fans. More than being a professional athlete, I would have liked to have been a rock-and-roll star.

[GreatWhiteEbola]

I wanna dance!

[Oil Stain]

I'll probably never get to go into space. Completely fascinated with it as a kid, and still would love to get in a few orbits.

Unfortunately, you are still looking at $200,000 for even sub orbit. Not sure if it will get cheap enough to try in my lifetime. I mean, theoretically I could afford it, but not sure I could ever justify shelling out that kind of dough for a ten minute experience.

[MarchHare]

It's interesting seeing lots of aviation-themed regrets here.

Mine is somewhat similar. I actually did become a licensed pilot and have about 100 hours of logged flying time. However, it was always my dream to become a military fighter pilot, but puberty was a cruel mistress. As a teenager, I grew too tall and exceeded the maximum height allowable for jet training. I often wonder how different my life would be if I was a few inches shorter.

Fun fact: I completed my flying training with Chris Hasler, the first Canadian since the Korean War to be awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. We flew our first solo flights within an hour of each other.

[jeffman]

Get picked 1st overall in the NHL draft, but i guess it s best that i avoided that fate circa 2010-2012

[Knut]

Pylon, Dion, FirstLady and the rest of you guys with poor sight.... My Lazy eye, poor vision and troubles as a kid are the reason i am in my field. I was interested in why I had these problems and how i could help kids avoid them.

@Pylon - Anytime i do a color vision test and someone fails it is important that i mention to their parents immediately what fields are likely off limit. Helps lessen the blow when you have time to find other interests.

Visiting space is the one thing that i hope to be able to do in the future. I will be bummed out if i never visit it. Artistic abilities (Music, drawing etc) are something that i am just not wired for.

[ricosuave]

Originally Posted by KevanGuy

Due to an oral allergy I cant eat most fresh fruits and veggies. Its a bummer because it is something that developed in my early 20s, so I know how good fresh berries, apples, peas, etc are but I cant eat them any more.

Oh, ya, just use that as an excuse to gorge on junior bacon cheeseburgers...

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Oil Stain

I'll probably never get to go into space. Completely fascinated with it as a kid, and still would love to get in a few orbits.

Unfortunately, you are still looking at $200,000 for even sub orbit. Not sure if it will get cheap enough to try in my lifetime. I mean, theoretically I could afford it, but not sure I could ever justify shelling out that kind of dough for a ten minute experience.

Not quite the same, but we are made of "star stuff" and every atom in our bodies will one day return to the stars.

[CaptainCrunch]

There are lots of things I regret not doing, besides staying in the Military, maybe studying a lot harder in school so that I would have had cooler career options.

Not carrying through in fighting in a tough man competition in Texas.

Not having the guts to carry through on a wedding proposal to the girl I dated in college.

Not writing a book while drinking multiple bottles of Jack Daniels ala Steve Martin

Climbing a actual mountain with cliffs and stuff.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by First Lady

For me, I will never get the benefit from watching 3D movies.

I have an eye issue similar to Dion's. I have next to nothing for peripheral vision on one side, vision on that side has become progressively worse (yet better on the other); to the point that my eye doctor refers to it as being "clinically blind" in that eye.

Anyhoo... it prevents me from being able to properly process (see) 3D images.

We have something in common??? Marry me!

[First Lady]

Originally Posted by Hesla

Pylon, Dion, FirstLady and the rest of you guys with poor sight.... My Lazy eye, poor vision and troubles as a kid are the reason i am in my field. I was interested in why I had these problems and how i could help kids avoid them.

@Pylon - Anytime i do a color vision test and someone fails it is important that i mention to their parents immediately what fields are likely off limit. Helps lessen the blow when you have time to find other interests.

Visiting space is the one thing that i hope to be able to do in the future. I will be bummed out if i never visit it. Artistic abilities (Music, drawing etc) are something that i am just not wired for.

You likely heard about this...

http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/tetris-...hers-1.1249179

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by pylon

Mine is so bad I can't pass any of the alternative tests they have. The one silver lining is I passed my medical to get a recreational pilots license, I just can't get an instrument rating to fly at night. So I am starting that this spring, and will hopefully buy a beater airplane in the next couple years.

Geez, you gotta stay more upbeat abiut things pylon, you're talking about buying a plane. Stay positive.

[Knut]

Originally Posted by First Lady

You likely heard about this...

http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/tetris-...hers-1.1249179

Yes, however I have been using video games in my patching therapy for a long time. Kids are more likely to stick with the treatment if video games are involved. "You can only play video games when your good eye is patched". This takes it a set beyond by using specialized equipment to split the image.

Anything you can do that helps hand-eye coordination the better.

I Will definitely try it on myself if i can get access to it.

The drawback is an hour a day for 6 weeks for a busy professional.

[woob]

Scuba diving. I have tubes/holes in my ear drums due to tubes in my ears when I was younger and cannot scuba dive due to this. I've thought about trying one of those old school diving helmet type dives, but I've heard they're not great for someone like myself either.

My right ear still has the tube and has about 70% normal hearing. However my left ear, the tube came out and majorly f'd up my ear drum in the process. I have about 30% in my left ear and serious scar tissue on the remaining ear drum itself. Had a tympanoplasty back in 2009, but it didn't take.

[cam_wmh]

Originally Posted by Tinordi

Discover a wild new place an ocean away.

Why can't you? I can say, the remote islands of the south pacific are amazing.

[saskflames69]

Born too late to explore the earth
Born too early to explore the universe

The fact that I was never that good at hockey bums me out. It wasn't a lack of effort, I'm just really, really bad. Damn lanky knees.

[KevanGuy]

Originally Posted by ricosuave

Oh, ya, just use that as an excuse to gorge on junior bacon cheeseburgers...

Hey, I never need an excuse to do that!

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Oil Stain

I'll probably never get to go into space. Completely fascinated with it as a kid, and still would love to get in a few orbits.

Unfortunately, you are still looking at $200,000 for even sub orbit. Not sure if it will get cheap enough to try in my lifetime. I mean, theoretically I could afford it, but not sure I could ever justify shelling out that kind of dough for a ten minute experience.

Only $5K to go up in the vomit comet though.