What's your deepest regret?

And if you feel comfortable, why?

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hunkalove · 61-69, M

I quit school when I was 16. This was 1966 and I was going to hitchhike to California and play guitar in a rock&roll band but I let my father and high school principal scare me out of it. I wish I had followed my dream. If I had been murdered, which they assured me I would be, I would have at least died trying to do something I cared about. This life has been a miserable experience. I'll be so glad when it is over.

SW-User

@hunkalove

For the love of God, don't wish that.

hunkalove · 61-69, M

@SW-User I'm 74, I'm going blind, I'm in constant pain from arthritis, i can't live on my Social Security pittance. I will probably be homeless when my lease ends in September. I'm so wobbly and dizzy sometimes I can hardly walk. I won't last two days on the street.

SW-User

@hunkalove

I had no idea. Yet you give so much back to us on SW. Your self-deprecating humor is tops with me.

SW-User

@hunkalove There is an untruth staring me in the face. If you quit school at 16 in 1966, you would have been born in 1950. Since it is now 2024, that would make you 74 this year. Not 61-69. One or the other is untrue, if not both.

hunkalove · 61-69, M

@SW-User I'm 74.

SW-User

@hunkalove

I'm 75 and 1/2 but you needn't call me sir, ok?