A buddy of mine asked me this thought provoking question and now I pose it to you. Imagine you just died, and your standing in front of God, Buddha, Allah, whoever you may be standing in front of or whatever you believe and they say to you: "You have lived a good life, and have kept with the tenents of ((insert religious or non-religious beliefs here)). You may enter your glorious new home of ((heaven, paradise, be re-born, whatever)) OR you may re-live your life all over again AND be guaranteed re-entry (assuming you would live the same basic goodness). From the day you were born, to today, the day you died, BUT you get one choice to change. You may change ONE regretful thing you did in your first life...only one...everything else will be as it was before, and from that point, whatever choice you make will change your life course...What will your ONE regret be that you would change? It might be kind of a contrived question, but it kind of makes you think...what would YOU change if you could fix one regret in your life.
Right now, and this is pretty stupid, it'd be that I would've played football in high school. I had coaches begging me my sophomore year to go and play receiver. I was 6'2" at the time and had I known I wasn't going to grow any taller, I would've. I was badass in junior high, but I didn't want it to interfere with my basketball "career" I thought I was going to have. I would've been a pretty good receiver or a tight end once they got me into the weight room. Oh well, since that's my only regret, I can say I've had a pretty decent life so far!
i said something to my father that i always regretted...we had and still have an amazing relationship...we spend a good deal of time together...if i could be half the father to my children that he was to me, i would be happy...i don't know if he even remembers the statement...but i do, and it bothers me. i wish i could take it back...i wish i had never said it.
Man, yeah, that would be bad. I'm sure if your Dad is anything like you, he hasn't given it much more of a second thought. I wish my Dad remembered the one time he laid his hands on me outside of when I was younger than like 7 years old. I was always a punk to my Mom growing up, for some odd reason. Then one night, he'd had enough of my back talk to her, backed me up into the hallway and pimp slapped me. I totally deserved it and it made me realize what an ass I was being to my Mom if I could get my Dad to do something like that. To this day, he doesn't recall it happening.
Not staying in Army Intel to learn Chinese, so I could have the funnest job in the world right now. d'oh...who would have guessed it.
Not staying at University of Texas, I wasnt' doing well, had about a C average after 3 years and I just wasn't a good student, never learned how to study until I went to UofH. I like UofH, underated school, but having that UT degree is such an advantage in this state.
yes...and i have in the past....this happened way back in high school...and i may mention it again soon....i honestly doubt he remembers it....but it will always bother me, i think, mostly because of how amazing he is.
So far my life's biggest regret was not making move on a girl when I had the chance. After I let her go, I realized I was miserable when she wasn't around. I don't know if I'll ever get her back, If I don't it will probably haunt me for the rest of my life.
I honestly can't think of anything. I've done plenty of stupid things, but they've all ended up being great learning experiences. To change anything would end up changing the entire course of my life. Tricky stuff. Besides, one of the advantages of believing in reincarnation is you figure you just get to do it better in the next life anyway.
