What's your biggest regret in life?

[Bruiser]

Go.

[MOhillbilly]

I regret that I missed the capitalist casualties show on Easter 91.

Also I regret that Sheet Terror didn't show either time I traveled to see them.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by beach tribe

Still very Cool.

I'm proud of him. He started off driving one and built his own business into a fleet. I used to ride with him for a couple nights of a tour every now and again. Saw some interesting shit, meet some interesting people...

[beach tribe]

Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

2.4 high school GPA, 3.2 college GPA over six years, two colleges with one degree and no real job.

Gotta love this post-peak, pre-automation American economy.

Awesome ain't it?
Bout' the same here.

[Discuss Thrower]

Originally Posted by beach tribe

Awesome ain't it?
Bout' the same here.

Yep. And apparently asking for anything more than 20k in salary is too much.

[bevischief]

Originally Posted by TimBone

ENTERING THIS THREAD

This...

[mdchiefsfan]

It's my credo. Naw m'saying?

[Buzz]

Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed

And my biggest hope is that maybe someone without faith or with shaky faith will see how I faced this horror no matter if I live or die, and maybe that someone will turn to God with a new open heart and see what having faith can do.

One of my favorite songs.

[Kaepernick]

Originally Posted by Lonewolf Ed

That has to be tough for you and I hope you can let the sting of it fade as time goes on. Don't hold on to it, just learn from it and go from there. God bless you.

It hit my 2nd brother hard. He was 8 years older than the baby.

It didn't sting that bad for me. I knew it was coming and what can you do. I am a lot more mad than sad, and I think of him like DAILY. So many things remind me of him in the course of the day that I am always thinking of him. Really spoiled my plans with all the time I was hoping to spend with him after I retired and now that is just...

Gone. All gone.

At the end of the day, it is in God's hands and if he needed a jazz guitarist back that bad to fill out his Heavenly quartet, then what the hell am I going to say? I doth protest too much.

I will say this. When a person passes too young, it is really hell on the living they leave behind. So very much reminds you of them, and there is an empty need unfulfilled when you can't see them or talk to them or know you COULD see them if you wanted to. Quite a deep hole.

[Kaepernick]

Originally Posted by Pawnmower

A very strong point in my life for me, was when my father died. He was agnostic and even anti religious as long as I remember...I don't remember him ever even really talking about anything remotely spiritual.....in a positive fashion

Needless to say it was surprising, when my father (a man of few words, a no bullshit farmer, man of action) was terminally ill and on the last day of his life, opened his eyes really wide and said "I see God!", happy, and then took his last breath.

Amazing, isn't it? As much as you are NEVER prepared for your parents to die, when something like that happens like did with your father, it really helps.

I'm not surprised. These little miracles happen all the time and either we can't see them or rationalize them scientifically. It amazes me how many people need to not believe in miracles when they are right in front of our faces all the time, if we just look.

[Kaepernick]

Originally Posted by luv

Not getting into fitness 20 years ago.

OK, there is a serious regret. I should have stayed in better shape after college. It was a long slow slide but still, I wish I had put more effort into exercise as the years raced by.

[Kaepernick]

Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower

2.4 high school GPA, 3.2 college GPA over six years, two colleges with one degree and no real job.

Gotta love this post-peak, pre-automation American economy.

This won't help you today, but rest assured this ends well for you and your generation. The Boomers are all going to die off in bunches and leave a lot of vacant positions behind.

Like I said, that doesn't do you any good today while you are trying to start a career in an economic depression. Recovery my eye, we are in a depression.

[Sandy Vagina]

Originally Posted by Kaepernick

OK, there is a serious regret. I should have stayed in better shape after college. It was a long slow slide but still, I wish I had put more effort into exercise as the years raced by.

Still think you are a douchebag when talking Alex Smith, but as a person, you do seem nice. Condolences on the loss of your brother.. a touching story indeed.

[mdchiefsfan]

Originally Posted by Kaepernick

One of the hardest parts of watching my baby brother die at 39 from advanced liver cancer, was his Agnosticism. As a result, he felt really cheated in life to die so young, which on the face of it is true. But I have heard from others with deep Christian Faith, they accepted their fate and know they are going to a better place. For my brother, he thought he was just going back to the dirt, so he was pretty bitter about that.

I wish he had a strong Christian Faith to help him through. So unfortunate.

This reminds me of a genuine regret I have in life.

My baby brother came back to Sacramento to live for a couple of years before he found a new job in Seattle and went back. We spent 2 days in Banff and he had been dying to go back ever since, and I was dying to take him. But I was so busy with my job, I never found time in those 2 summers to take him back to Banff and Jasper for 2 weeks.

I really regret that I did not MAKE THE TIME, or tell my employer to go to hell and I was taking vacation. They would have let me go, I just had heavy workloads and I felt that I could not spare a 2 or 3 week vacation those years, so it was my call, and I really regret it now.

To be fair, I thought he would live to be 80 and we could go back in my retirement. He didn't drink, smoke, drink coffee and never touched drugs. 16 years older, I expected to go long before him. So this is all hindsight. Who could have expected he would die at 39?

Still, I really regret not taking him to Banff. He was depressed about being stuck in Sacramento again and it would have been a great relief for him and a great memory for me.

If we all knew when we are to die, we would all probably live our lives differently.

That's brutal, man. Sorry to hear that.

[Mennonite]

Originally Posted by Kaepernick

This won't help you today, but rest assured this ends well for you and your generation. The Boomers are all going to die off in bunches and leave a lot of vacant positions behind....that will be filled by illegal immigrants, robots, or outsourced.

FYP

My best friends father was in sales for almost 30 years. He lost his job two years ago, and can't find a job making a third of what he made before.

I've always done factory work. When I got my first factory job 14 years ago I started out at $9.80 per hour. You know what the starting salary is at that same company today? $9.80 per hour. And now they've cut the employees benefits, top out pay and raised the price of insurance. it's the same story every where you go. Manufacturing is dead.



The Typical Household, Now Worth a Third Less

The inflation-adjusted net worth for the typical household was $87,992 in 2003. Ten years later, it was only $56,335, or a 36 percent decline, according to a study financed by the Russell Sage Foundation. Those are the figures for a household at the median point in the wealth distribution — the level at which there are an equal number of households whose worth is higher and lower. But during the same period, the net worth of wealthy households increased substantially.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/bu...less.html?_r=4

[Tribal Warfare]

Being a recluse in high school, my father had a caustic attitude towards administrative authority as an ER physician so my family moved multiple times. (upwards of 8 times)

Thus, having to assimilate with a new group of kids and couldn't maintain relationships because of moving all the time( attempting to blend in, with the disadvantage of having stroke without others believing I was mentally reeruned because of that affliction was a problem too). The straw that broke the camel's back was being stood up by a group of kids to go to a party as a sophomore. After that I said **** it.

I just kept my head down and did my time as if it were prison. No dates, no parties, I didn't go to prom because I was so jaded. in fact, my only outlet was posting on the KCStar BB back in the day.