Missed Opportunities

[Venetia]

Have you ever looked back and realized you probably made the wrong choice at a really important crossroads? Something you will probably NEVER be able to take back, or get a do-over? Or something that was TECHNICALLY an option, but you couldn't take it for some reason, and now you lament that?

For instance, my stepdad got two college acceptance letters when he was a teen: one from Arkansas University and one from Yale. But this was in the mid 60's, the time before widespread tuition aid and easily-acquired scholarships, so he couldn't afford Yale and went to AU. That's a MASSIVE missed opportunity.

Or, I had an argument with my husband (then, boyfriend) on where to start our adult lives after high school. I wanted Oregon, he wanted Florida. I'm terrible at arguments, so I lost, and we wound up here. And now even HE wants to move to Oregon. So much money and time lost because I couldn't argue well enough! Who knows what I missed out on--after all, graphic artists get paid a lot more there than they do here.


How about you?

 

[JoshieBoy]

You want to move to Oregon? Yay! I am here! If you do, Stop by Sutherlin and say hi, would ya?

One of my missed opportunities would have to be when I was younger. My Great Grandma, was all I had left in my family. She was an excessive smoker. She asked me plenty of times if I think that she should stop smoking. I kept telling here "whatever makes you happy". She died when I was 15. I am almost positive that If I had made her quit when I was 7, she would still be Alive today. It just eats at me, ya know? Plus there was plenty of times when I went and got cigarettes for her. I feel so stupid now.

 

[Despain]

I don't waste time thinking about things in this way. I look toward the future (and the present). Once something is over, it's over, and we can't change it.

 

[JoshieBoy]

Missingno is right. We can't dwell on the past. But we can learn from our mistakes. Some of ours big, others small. Race, Social Class, Gender, education we are engulfed by these things as we age. Some of these things we have control over, others we don't. But hey, what can we do about it but try and live everyday to the fullest. I have young ones here that need me just as much as I needed my Grandma. We have just got to roll with the punches, and try to deliver a few good ones ourselves along the way. :wink:

 

[Rare]

I missed like 2 opportunities to be in Degrassi =x

oh well

 

[Despain]

AJHAHAHAHAHAHA DGREASSI

 

[$t3v0]

i dont think back but there was one chance where I could have BETA tested Playstation 2 games for 6 weeks earning £3000. Sadly, I was due back to college

 

[Ellie]

The doughnut aisle had free samples

But I didn't go down the doughnut aisle

 

[$t3v0]

You're JOKING

 

[dadevvtsvre]

I don't waste time thinking about things in this way. I look toward the future (and the present). Once something is over, it's over, and we can't change it.

YES

That's pretty much how I try to live. If you only think about what you've done wrong, your brain will try to wrap around that and you'll always be paranoid and...hell, I can't explain this right now, but yeah, what he said.

Although I do wish I had started drum lessons earlier, because the older you are the harder it is to start something. And I really regret leaving my wallet on top of the lockers at Cedar Point with over a hundred dollars...

 

[FlippyD]

I regret being a prideful little douche. I had recently graduated and had to go back home, but my (at the time) fiancee told me her mother was willing to lend me money to stay in town. I refused, wanting to look responsible and able to fend for myself, and it started a huge fight that ended up with us calling the whole thing off.

Fuck me kids :thumb:

 

[Charlie Fleed]

I have plenty of what you've called "technically" oppurtunities in my past that unfortunately i missed. I don't really feel like sharing all the details, but most of them had to do with job positions, starting with my thesis four (five?) years ago. I could have chosen to do a stage in some local IT (Information Technology) industry, but i preferred a less stressful "academic" thesis with a professor, an excellent one, who i knew had a good consideration of me. You could say i took the easy path. This kind of directed me towards the university career and now that i'm about to complete my PhD i have huge doubts i really like this job.
Speaking about love affairs, there are a couple of TERRIBLE choice i did, one was a "no" and the other was a "yes" i said.

In general, I'm a person who looks back often, i think that there are important lessons we learn from past errors, and to me the most important thing is that my knowledge of myself deepens, i learn what i want, which compromises i can accept and which not.

 

[Tindy]

I wish I had kept doing dance.  If I had, I'd probably be in much better shape, and I'd have more opportunities now (scholarships most recently, but also better parts in the school musical, more friends, etc etc etc....)

Also wish I had made myself realise that I could sing (and sing well!) around 5th grade and not waste 7 years of my life taking violin lessons and only getting first chair by technicality.  Y'know, the whole no band trips and only one friend in the class thing really got old around senior year (when I finally DID take chorus.  WASTED! WASTED!)

 

[Makasu]

I missed an opportunity to become a professional skateboarder. :/ partially due to family issues and things like that so I stopped skating for 10 years then when I decided to pick it back up finally I couldn't do shit. :[ now hell I can't even get a sponsor to look my way. I think thats a serious missed opportunity.

But not much I can do about it now.

I'm on the path of an artist and hopefully something will come my way.

But yeah if I could go back I would've taken that opportunity and probably wouldn't be sitting here typing this.

But things happen for a reason y'know? no point in dwelling in the past because you could miss things that could potentially be in your future [[or present]] but miss them if you're stuck in things of the past.

 

[Calibre]

I coulod have had a 4'sum with Pammie Lee, Sharon Stone and Mark McGhee but I said I was passed it, have been a story for sure.

 

[Calibre]

I said Pammies breath smelt of edam.

 

[Calibre]

It didnt, my winkie was just small.

 

[FzGhouL]

I missed an opportunity to have a life by coming back here.

 

[CeruSkye]

I missed an opportunity to go work at BC ferries when I was 17. I would be making 60, 000 per year by now. Stoopid girl.

 

[Venetia]

I missed an opportunity to have a life by coming back here.

WTF FZGHOUL!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!

I havent seen you in like ... almost a year probably!