When you're 60, what will you regret?

[worrywort]

When you're 60, 80, 100, whatever, and you're looking back on your life, what will you regret not having done? and if there's anything on your list, what's stopping you from going out there and making it happen today while you still have the chance, so that you won't need to regret it later on?!




EDIT: I didn't mean this to be a negative thread, btw! I was hoping it would be motivational. I find that imagining myself at the end of my life, looking back, and thinking of the kind of life I'd have liked to have lived, and the kind of regrets I hope not to have, I find this usually motivates me to make the changes today that will prevent the regrets I fear later.

p.s. I also didn't mean to suggest that when we're 60 we'll all be on our death beds! It was just a symbolic age, when the prime of our lives, [for most of us!], will be behind us.

[.....I should really double check the wording in my posts more often!!! ]

 

[Running_Scared]

I will regret all of the worry that I have done. I know I will regret it later, but I can't seem to stop now. I will also regret doing things that made me worry. I will regret not enjoying my life sooner (if I ever do).

 

[Klaus]

I won't regret anything. I'm doing the best I can.
Only for trying to understand this crazy world I'm already happy with myself.
And the good part is that I definitely won't be sad or scared about leaving this place.

 

[Ignace]

I would regret that I actually let this fear control me.

 

[Dr. Doom]

That I did not get enough sleep...ironically.

 

[Logical Anxiety]

1. Probably why I never got married (though the reason is obvious)
2. Lack of real friends up up til' now. (I intimidate people, for some reason. >>)
3. Lack of conversational skills. (I'll speak to you for important reasons, but that's it.)

That's honestly it. I can fend for myself in public, work or school, but the awkwardness will still be there. I'll take risks if I need to. I won't have a very active social life, but...

I'll weep like mad when I'm 60, all alone, I predict. I think no one would be willing to grow old with me, nor would be willing to have a little chat with me for a while. I'm very scared for the future. Wish time would just stop.

 

[fitftw]

I will regret that I didn't live the crazy awesome life I know I could have if I wasn't afraid of people.

 

[Pacific_Loner]

I will regret that I didn't live the crazy awesome life I know I could have if I wasn't afraid of people.

Why do you allow this to happen!?!?!?

To answer the thread, I hope I will not regret anything. I'm working on it.
My biggest phobia is to become old and bitter thinking "So that's it? that's what I've done with my life?" so I'm trying very hard to make it not happen.

 

[Hamelech]

YouTube - When i am 64

 

[Falkor]

I would feel dissapointed 'Cuz there's so many things I wanted to reach in my life.
I would be sad cuz I never kicked SA out of my life.

 

[BlackPuma]

Nothing at all.

I'm not 60 yet, and I'm fairly certain I'm not going to sit still until I've done everything I wanted to.

We are all, even the people in their 50's, quite young. Young enough to still lead a vibrant life. The most destructive and obstructive thing to your dreams/goals/desires is pessimism, procrastination and allowing yourself to grow in a rut. Same thing with trying to overcome the troubles that social phobia causes.

I don't like to think about the distant future, because I'm simply not there yet.

 

[goldenholds]

I need the someone that I have loved to know that I loved her. Not just to believe it, because sometimes its hard to believe, but to know it surely without any trace of doubt. Just telling her will not do, because people say things all the time and don't mean them. I have to show her in a way that will leave no doubt whatever. I do not understand entirely why this is important to me, but I know that if I do not do this then in my last moments I will know that my life will have been for nothing. And that I will regret.

 

[DeMarco]

Geeeeeeezzzzzzzzzz............. Try to be me positive and less morose. Life is what yo make of it now not 40 years from now.

 

[da_illest101]

nothing, because i will get my life on track, i will get a better life

 

[coyote]

When you're on your death bed, looking back on your life, what will you regret not having done?

dead at 60?

I'll regret doing whatever it was I did to cause me to die so young

unless she's laying next to me

 

[A friend]

Either too much, or nothing at all.

 

[EscapeArtist]

60? A death bed? 60 is just after the prime of a healthy life... I'm thinking more like 100-120, thank you very much
I've never been one to regret... isn't there a quote that goes, a man isn't old until dreams turn to regrets, or something?

 

[Danfalc]

Hopefully not much. But I think I will regret the days I let the depression get to me and didn't try. I try and use that as motivation now..time is so precious and every step I take towards getting better, is one step closer.

 

[vj288]

If I'm still alive at 60 I would hope I have no regrets, and if I do I'd imagine they'll happen in the next 40 years as opposed to the last 19 - unless nothing has changed by then, in which I will no exactly what my regrets will be.

 

[worrywort]

thanks for the replies. I really appreciate the honesty in some of the posts.

For me, there's a few things that I'd love to do if I get the chance, but I don't think I'd regret it if I never experienced them. Things like travelling the world, or novelty things like bungee jumping or skydiving etc.....

.....But then there's a few others that really eat me up, that I think I could really regret a lot. Firstly, I think if I reach the end of my life having never really experienced any deep intimate relationships with other people [especially girls!] I've got a bad feeling that I'd really hate myself for not being brave enough when I was younger......and secondly, my art career, I think, when I'm on my death bed, if I remain so unknown that my art dies with me, I think I'd really regret not taking more risks when I was younger and really getting my art out there for people to see.

But the strange thing is, is that I feel like I'm giving my all to make these things happen today......they just don't seem to be happening......so I shouldn't really regret something in which I gave my best, cause there's really nothing more I could've done......yet somehow I don't feel that's going to comfort me much when I'm older.

p.s. I didn't mean to suggest that when we're 60 we'll be on our death beds!....it was just a symbolic age.....I'm aiming for the big 100 myself!