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Mostly for Seniors: If you you could live your life again what changes would you make and why?
I'm coming to the "end game" and have an illness which will kill me some time in the next decade. I'm trying to assess what I did right and what I did wrong. On the plus side I kicked religion into touch and helped rear my daughters from infants to useful citizens. I have never cheated on my wife.
On the minus - I have been lazy, conceited and sometimes boring.
Your thoughts, experiences and opinions please - no holds barred!
6 Answers
- ?Lv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
Everything you did was right for you. This doesn't matter to anyone else- we are all focused on our own stuff.
None of us know for sure when we'll die. I believe that the best thing to do is to keep cleaning up relationship. Keep holding responsibility for everything in your life.
If these are new ideas for you, start working on them right away. Your time could be up tomorrow.
- All hatLv 77 years ago
I don't know if it is valid, I wonder, but I mostly feel ok about what I've done. I've played some profoundly lousy hands, but then at other times been dealt good hands. But thankfully, I never cheated that I can remember, never shot up the table, nothing too gross, did ok with women, proving there is no god -
I've always been timid, shy, not the corporate ladder climber and I wish I'd had a few more of those genes, but -
Mostly, and this is the thing I am suspicious of, but mostly I don't blame myself. I didn't always do brilliantly, but then at certain times in my life it was an achievement just not to commit suicide that week. When I had the emotional juice, I did things - sometimes brave things. When I didn't, I didn't.
If I were in your shoes, and I may well be, I don't know - the whole idea of life ending is appalling. My plan is to get my will and estate planning in order, finish whatever projects I had intended to do, and look in on my kids more. I don't know what else we could do, really -
- 7 years ago
Life was good as it was. It could have gone much worse. By now you might be dead, or in prison, or confined within the bounds of a mental hospital.
That which happened and was done cannot be undone. In the dreamy wish to go back and to do changes, some good corrections might be made. Yet the development of your life went well. The doom and duty of human life is to care for the daring self-unfolding of yourself and to care for the others about you in your world. The good life-unfolding can be the assisted self-unfolding!
Now ... in all the good things that you are doing, especially also in your necessary interactions with the others in your world, you can decide to go on being the stout good performer, then you are the good performer, the braver manager or master of your own time.
You can still decide to adopt a more confident attitude within the magic of what is or seems possible, without running your head against the wall of painful impossibility.
In this most often ferocious dangerous world, on this sun-kissed or sun-scorched wind-swept or gloomy and at times even deadly stormy Earth, your own life is with tension. Yet the attitude of life can be made ever more daring, more with the spiritual and material glow in the wondrous peaceful way.
You might be thinking that you are ever preparing for better corrections, for changes, for a great metamorphosis, even for a sequel of wondrous or weird metamorphoses perhaps never thought of before, that will be leading you on towards a great apotheosis of glowing safe certainty and of delicious as if perennial bliss, if you are an ardent believer, you can be on your path or avenue forwards upwards towards your own God's ever loving nearness. Good luck!
- Anonymous7 years ago
Life was great but hard for me. I was raised in a remote area. No electric till 1969. So were I lived I seen the last of the old ways pass away. Mom's Dad was a black smith. Hammer and forge man. I seen mule farming die. And the start of the new. My first calculator cost $20 a fotune back then. I can buy the same for $2 today. In 69 i went in the Army. And came home to a changed world. And did very well in it. My first computer was a T.I.99a. how that has changed. Then came 2010. I think the world has changed again. And these kids who are starting to take control of it do scare me today. But my Dad I think said it best. He lived to 102 years of age. One day he said. I seen all of a good century! And the start of a D@m bad one. And I fear he may have been right. But I am retired now and have enough I think I well just set back and see how these kids do for laughs now.
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- 7 years ago
I cannot say I'm a senior. But I do hope that by the time I reach that kind of age, I have no regrets. Dictating once past should not illustrate how we feel about ourselves in the present, even if it was negative. By trying to change the past, we are only trying to change ourselves.So all that we are is a result of what we thought and not of what we did. At the very end we will only come to realize that the only person we have to answer about our life's, is ourselves.
- Fake GeniusLv 77 years ago
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-fyK-ZtwF0gE/UzJ...
you know the answer. what we have now is still slower than we want