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Why am I now just realizing this?

As I'm entering what most would call my twilight years, why am I now finally seeing what I should have been doing with my life all along? I hate that I squandered so much of it.

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User41 · 36-40, M

Don’t spend those years in self pity.

There’s a ton on young people right here that often talk about being stuck in life.

Help them

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User41 · 36-40, M

I get it @MrBill36

MrBill36 · 100+, M

@User41 Better late than never I guess. Still, there will always be that what if...

User41 · 36-40, M

At some point you need to make peace with it all.

Could have, should have, but didn’t @MrBill36

MrBill36 · 100+, M

Don't get me wrong. I spent most of my life doing a lot of what I love. For 20 years I was able to travel across the country with a video camera seeing things I wouldn't have seen otherwise. It's just on a more personal level where I feel I've come up short.

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MrBill36 · 100+, M

@Alisha233 Thank you. No regrets here, just want more time

Alisha233 · 31-35, F

@MrBill36 Thank you for sharing.😊

MrBill36 · 100+, M

@Alisha233 Thank you for indulging my rant

Zoranna · F

"Youth is wasted on the young." Attributed to both George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde, no verification either did, but I find it rather ironic and true in hindsight with regards to myself.

MrBill36 · 100+, M

@Zoranna We all have regrets and feelings that we wasted so much of our lives on frivolous things. That quote comes to me regularly.

Zoranna · F

@MrBill36 I don't see how I would have done things differently but I didn't waste my life on frivolous things, I was too preoccupied with study and work. I think I view the youth today, I'm talking about teenagers and young adults, with some slightly wistful jealousy but I wouldn't want to do it again. If that makes any sense. 🤔

MrBill36 · 100+, M

@Zoranna I would have loved to have that same focus earlier. It did come later though.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@MrBill36
You are not alone.

Make the time you have left count. In whatever way 'count' has meaning for you.

That's what I'm trying to do. With varying degrees of success and outbreaks of regret.

@User41
Help the young? I was young once, I was invincible and knew I would live forever, no one could teach me anything about life. I'm confident if, like Scrooge's ghosts, I had appeared to myself and related what would happen that the younger me would have dismissed it as fantasy.

But I agree, self pity is not to be wallowed in.

Alisha233 · 31-35, F

Had you not "squandered" it would you have still arrived at the same conclusion? 🤔

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MrBill36 · 100+, M

@Alisha233 A couple. I'm one of those urbex folks. But I want to do more too. A lot of our history is being lost.

Alisha233 · 31-35, F

@MrBill36 interesting.

MrBill36 · 100+, M

@Alisha233 A lot of what I've captured already is gone, so I feel lucky to have preserved it. I hope others will do the same

smiler2012 · 56-60

mrbill36 think you are not alone there people sit back and look and think how they should of played it differently regrets i had a few as the song says

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MrBill36 · 100+, M

@SW-User I just don't want to think it came to me too late

Lostpoet · M

You look good in your profile pic

MrBill36 · 100+, M

@Lostpoet I had more energy then. 😆

Selah ·

Tell me. I need to know

MrBill36 · 100+, M

@Selah I'm a visual documentarian of sorts and I feel a need to share as much as I can

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