About not learning something? Or not trying something new? In fact anything that when you think about it you have a slight feeling of sadness? With me it is something quite silly and every time I hear the tune I really regret not learning how to play it. I always want to go into a pub and this is in the days when pubs had pianos and belt this tune out. And the name of the tune and the band you played it. B.Bumble & The Stingers - Nut Rocker Original. And how I might have sounded if I had learnt to play it perhaps.
I actually regret not carrying on with my micro electronics training during the 90's before the big technology boom, to think where I could possibly be now if I had kept it going. Also the many many hours playing games on the C64 instead of actually learning how to program the thing, once again, who knows where it possibly could have led to.
Not got the time for regrets done things I would have not / done differently with hindsight , Wish I'd learned to play the Saxophone though
I sometimes regret not getting into it with office manager at my first full time job. She practically mauled me in the kitchen one quiet day, when the office was otherwise empty, but I bottled it for fear of being caught (I was very young and very stupid). It was almost two hours before another living soul walked in. She was incredibly hot and I missed a rare treat, according to someone I know who was not burdened by the same fear of discovery. As you can probably guess, I don't have a lot of regret in my life - thanks to a carefully cultivated lack of ambition and generally low expectations.
Meh. I say the same about psychology and a career in the NHS. The grass is always greener on the other side.
I tend not to think about regrets because I'm sure I have a lot I do regret not learning a musical instrument when I was a little younger though naturally the guitar would have been my choice but I would have loved to master the piano.
Carpe diem - seize the day Being too cautious worrying and just not grabbing opportunitys like the film "yes man" you just don't know what your missing out on if you don't go for it. The character at the start of that film is basically how I am and has my surname !
I don't regret any of the things I've done, good or bad I learn't from them. I only regret things I haven't/wish I had done. There may be chances in the future for all the things on the 'wish I'd done that' list though.
Couldn't agree with you more. It's ruined a passion and the markets in decline. Think I need to get out in the next couple of years.
Not as much as you think. The NHS will likely be gone before I retire. We're all planning to go into private practice.
Many, many things that I let fear hold me back from. A few would have been life-altering. You can't wallow in self-pity or you die emotionally. Make the most of what you've done and do more now.
It will be the end of civilised society, IMO. Health professionals will be OK; we've all got highly marketable skills. But patients won't be.
