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Plans for the future though... Sail the Caribbean, go to screenwriting school, see India on foot and live on a house boat. Not necessarily in that order nor in the next year or so.
I certainly can't regret what I've done so far and until it is too late to change what I do, I certainly can't complain about what I haven’t done.
Ambition: to be able to string a sentence together that actually makes sense.
-gs
Regards,
Brent
There are definitely a few things I wouldn't do again though, that I'm pretty sure wouldn't change anything except giving me the absence of memories that still make me cringe 5-10 years later... hehehe.
Totally new career on the horizon.
Who knows how long I'll stick with this one ... maybe another 10 years or so ... then onto the next thing. :)
lawman
Life is so imperfect that I just love it.
I have a wonderful girlfriend. A job to provide for all my needs. A family that cares for me and I for them. But most of all I have a purpose in life. If you want to know what that is sticky me. But all in all everything happened the way it did to make me who I am, the things that you have gone through make you who you are. You start out life not knowing anything and you leave the world knowing a little more than when you got here. So be content.
Guess I've been blessed. There's been some hard times, but I wouldn't change a thing. And, it only seems to get better.
WBF
I would have definitely gone into SEAL training to be a Navy frogman! I have always been interested in climbing, swimming, running, scuba & rebreathers, shooting, sneaking around and like loud sounds & things. There is a former SEAL in the family and I was very close to going in but I did not. I kick myself everyday! So now I am a SEAL historian of sorts, in my spare time I collect gear and old UDT things. I also go to the reunions and meet the old frogs. I met Jessie Ventura and Rudy, very nice guys!
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I would just pick the same life, with a few 'ctrl z' here and there.
My dream life is to be the inventor of the time travelling machine.
Future life on earth could be sustainable then.
Buy more domains.
-gs
I would have started having fun earlier in life and not been so afraid of things as a teenager.So you were afraid of spiders, too?
:)
rc, the iced tea I was drinking when I read this is now all over my desk. Thanks for making me snarf!
Some things I've yet to do:
1) Buy a one-way ticket around the World.
2) Live somewhere far North like Newfoundland for a year.
3) Do something really thoughtful like help build houses for the poor in Costa Rica.
4) Hike up to at least Base Camp one of Mount Everest.
At the time, we had 16 computer terminals in our office, a Basic 4, mini computer (which actually had a state of the art "word processor" ) and a telex machine we used to bang away at to send month end sales reports to our head office in Luxembourg.
Note: I was very proud of the fact that I was the only one in the office who could actually write a "basic" programme which would produce a meaningful sales report! I also learned Fortran ... not that it did me much good! ;) This notation is likely Greek to many of you, but both "Basic" and "Fortran" were computer languages ... way back when!
A colleague of mine (financial director at our head office) told me about these new "home/personal computers" which a company called "MacIntosh" was about to produce on a wide scale and I was offered shares at a ridiculously low price. At the same time, he told me about these new fangled laser printers which would make the line printer obsolete.
I could not forsee any future in people having computers at home! The concept perplexed me to the extreme. Why on earth would anyone want to have a computer at home ... and what could one possibly use it for? (This was prior to the advent of e:mail!)
Disgusted, my colleague told me that "I had no vision". He proceeded to put literally everything he had into MacIntosh stocks. Unfortunately, he was fatally injured in a very grizzly car accident on the German autobahn which left him brain dead shortly thereafter. He left a very, very wealthy wife and two young children!
Since he was a bean counter (and very serious type of guy with little humour) ... I know he would have been very proud of the return on his investment and would have taken great delight in saying, "I told you so!" :)
I went skiing a few weeks ago and I was amazed at how many 60 year olds there were in our group. They were all good skiers and had no problem in keeping up with the rest of us. When chatting with them I learned that they were successful businessmen, academic scholars, farmers, bus drivers, you name it. The only thing these gentlemen had in common was the attitude that "it is never too late to do what you want to do". To me this showed that there is a world of opportunities out there, regardless of how old you are.
Cheers.
For sure......I would throw in a few "alt z" as well.
