@divegeester
i would have stayed in the army.
i would have never gone to law school
i would have never bought the house in the oquirrah highlands.
i would never have sold my 51 chevy car, my 53 chevy truck or my 56 chevy belair
@divegeester saida new year's resolution from 1974
As we approach the end of the year of our Lord 2023 AD and we look back on our whole lives, if you could change one thing or one decision you have made, what would it be?
@divegeester saidIf we change one thing, we would change a chain of consequences - too complicated.
As we approach the end of the year of our Lord 2023 AD and we look back on our whole lives, if you could change one thing or one decision you have made, what would it be?
@divegeester saidBuy tech stock back in the 80s.
As we approach the end of the year of our Lord 2023 AD and we look back on our whole lives, if you could change one thing or one decision you have made, what would it be?
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@divegeester saidI sometimes think about what an interesting life I might have had if I'd remained in the frontier town in Irian Jaya [later West Papua] after my three years there. It went from about 55,000 people in 1991 [when I lived there] to about 450,000 in 2017 [when I last visited it]. It would have been interesting to witness and play a part in that growth. Sometimes I ponder it but it never rises to the status of regret.
As we approach the end of the year of our Lord 2023 AD and we look back on our whole lives, if you could change one thing or one decision you have made, what would it be?
@torunn saidAnd I would now be a different person because of that.
That's what I mean. If you hadn't, it would have changed your life and the lives of many others.
Better or worse? Who knows?
Bad experiences also teach us. The famous school of hard knocks.
I know I would probably not be on the trajectory I am on now.
@divegeester
I would never, EVER have started smoking and drinking cider at 14!
I’d not have felt so low in mood, would have spent my lunch money on a school lunch and thus had the brain power to work a whole day at school instead of hanging around the park most afternoons smoking cigarettes with my other moody, truanting friends.