I regret selling TSLA at $21 after making $3 a share in 2 days.
Also selling 2 condos and a house in 2003 because I was too lazy to continue to rent them out.
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My marriage was a disaster from the start and lasted through 14 years of hell, but I loved her, it was my choice, and for all the grim fights there were moments of love and tenderness and my daughter was a gift beyond words from it, I learnt and am a better partner now because of it.
There are all kinds of things I might do differently in retrospect but nothing I regret really, the good and the bad made me who I am.
My marriage was a disaster from the start and lasted through 14 years of hell, but I loved her, it was my choice, and for all the grim fights there were moments of love and tenderness and my daughter was a gift beyond words from it, I learnt and am a better partner now because of it.
There are all kinds of things I might do differently in retrospect but nothing I regret really, the good and the bad made me who I am.
I expressed a regret earlier in this thread about not going to radio college sooner. But the reality is if I had done that, I wouldn't have my daughter.
All the decisions in my life lead to me having her. Millions of singular decisions to arrive at that one outcome.
I might have a different child, but not her.
So in that sense I have no regrets. It all leads to her.
So when I think about my regrets, I just think of her, and it all washes away.
Hokey I know.
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I expressed a regret earlier in this thread about not going to radio college sooner. But the reality if I had done that, I wouldn't have my daughter.
All the decisions in my life lead to me having her. Millions of singular decisions to arrive at that one outcome.
I might have a different child, but not her.
So in that sense I have no regrets. It all leads to her.
So when I think about my regrets, I just think of her, and it all washes away.
Hokey I know.
No, there is no greater joy and responsibility, it is the single defining event of my life where the curtains were drawn back and I realised 'oh this is the point of it all'.
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Some of these anecdotes are reminding me of the STTNG episode “Tapestry”. I will have to go back and watch that again.
I just watched it yesterday! One of my favourite episodes. Not because of this thread though. I’m binging TNG for some reason but only seasons 3-7. 1 and 2 kinda suck. I definitely don’t regret skipping those seasons.
This is a lot less serious than some other responses and downright meaningless in the grand scheme of things but was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this thread and wondered if I had anything relevant to post.
When I was in university I had just broken up with my long term girlfriend so I went to a party. One of my first single outings in quite a while. I brought a bunch of booze and at one point this really cute blond I was flirting with realized she’d just drank the last of my Mickey of JD.
In an extremely flirty manner she proceeded to apologize and invite me downstairs to make it up to me and see if they had more booze. She did everything but wink at me while she said it. But for some reason I said no it was cool, I had lots of beer in the fridge still.
What in the hell was I thinking? Actually, I’d love to know what she was thinking when I said no. She for sure thought I was brain dead. Clearly we were not going downstairs for booze.
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I expressed a regret earlier in this thread about not going to radio college sooner. But the reality is if I had done that, I wouldn't have my daughter.
All the decisions in my life lead to me having her. Millions of singular decisions to arrive at that one outcome.
I might have a different child, but not her.
So in that sense I have no regrets. It all leads to her.
So when I think about my regrets, I just think of her, and it all washes away.
Hokey I know.
Also I bet that having a decent paycheque is a pretty big bonus of not going into radio.
I wonder if the guy who did 2 chicks at the same time regretted it, or if he regrets not doing 3 chicks at the same time.
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It would be more likely that he didn't regret it, but just thought it was overrated. I don't think you could ever truly regret at least experiencing that.
Unless perhaps if you have a threesome with your girlfriend and her best friend, and her best friend was just a little too phenomenal and you totally couldn't hide your pleasant surprise and enjoyment during the experience. In fact, in retrospect, it was clearly too much, too obvious. Perhaps the girlfriend internalized it, and it started to really bother her and this untold resentment ate away at your relationship like a cancer until one day it exploded like a dying star.
I guess in that scenario, yeah maybe you could regret it.
It's nothing like how you imagine it like in porn. After the fourth time its really sobering. You have 2 chicks that it works for that night only but in the end thtas all you have that night. It's hard to make any thing meaningful with either after that.
Threesomes are great in the moment but after that your just the same undatable loser . Without a girlfriend before. Just now you have 2 girls at the end that wont see you again instead of just one afrer a normal 1 night stand.
This is a lot less serious than some other responses and downright meaningless in the grand scheme of things but was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this thread and wondered if I had anything relevant to post.
When I was in university I had just broken up with my long term girlfriend so I went to a party. One of my first single outings in quite a while. I brought a bunch of booze and at one point this really cute blond I was flirting with realized she’d just drank the last of my Mickey of JD.
In an extremely flirty manner she proceeded to apologize and invite me downstairs to make it up to me and see if they had more booze. She did everything but wink at me while she said it. But for some reason I said no it was cool, I had lots of beer in the fridge still.
What in the hell was I thinking? Actually, I’d love to know what she was thinking when I said no. She for sure thought I was brain dead. Clearly we were not going downstairs for booze.
I'm going to give you my best sympathetic "duuude"
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I went through three interviews about 15 years ago to become a spy. A travel-around-the-world kind of spy. I had just a few security checks and a 4th interview to go before I would’ve started on that career. Who knows what kind of stuff I might have experienced? Maybe it would’ve been boring, and definitely I was not going to be James Bond - but closest I could’ve come anyway.
An exgirlfriend and a serious bout of depression, and I turned down the last interview. Given world politics today, really wonder where I would be...
How does one even get involved in that sort of thing?
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I went through three interviews about 15 years ago to become a spy. A travel-around-the-world kind of spy. I had just a few security checks and a 4th interview to go before I would’ve started on that career. Who knows what kind of stuff I might have experienced? Maybe it would’ve been boring, and definitely I was not going to be James Bond - but closest I could’ve come anyway.
An exgirlfriend and a serious bout of depression, and I turned down the last interview. Given world politics today, really wonder where I would be...
probably dead from polonium
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How does one even get involved in that sort of thing?
Well - you can just apply to CSIS.
I took the federal government exams and applied to the foreign service, and went from there.
