Tuesday, August 10, 2010
I Grow Old...I Grow Old...
I was considering a Talk Talk Tuesday topic and the words of one of my favorite poems came drifting across my mind.
Like any other English major who lacks originality, I have always had a special fondness for "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot. If you'd like, refresh your memory of the text HERE. I've always found it very beautiful. You can make your own call there, and feel free to mention it to me, if you like! But here is the Talk Talk....What do you anticipate your greatest regret might one day be? I thought by talking about it now, maybe we could try to avoid actually having many (or AS many) big regrets. What do you think? Talk Talk!
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Biggest regret? Wow, not sure. I try not to regret because I feel everything that has happened has shaped me to be the person I am. I mean, if I had to choose, I think I regret being choosing a career as a teacher when I could have done something else (and been in it longer than 3 years).
I feel regret for not being more social in college. I could've made more friends. I have awesome friends now, though, so it's all good! :)
I regret not investigating all of my possibilities early on in life. My life would definitely be a different existence today.
That's easy.I regret that I didn't give my girls a better father. That's really my only regret..But it's a big one.
Oh my, what a question for me. Anticipate my greatest regret? I hope there will be none, but I have a feeling that it is that I made my life so difficult for myself.
All the things that haven taken place in my life up until now have shaped me.. and made who I am..I have regrets about one thing and hope that will change.. but I have to want it to change.. but hopefully I won't have any later in life!..
Excellent quetion by the way!
MrManuel: I agree with the idea that even our mistakes shape us. And I know you sometimes still make use of your teaching skills, so it wasn't a total loss.
Tara: Wow, I feel the same. I was quite social in high school, but between work and my class load college was not a particularly social time for me. But as you say, it is all good now :-)
AlienCG: I certainly have had occasion to wish I knew then what I know now. Luckily, your life has worked out very well.
Churlita: Wow, I hear you there. That is something I deal with, someone, almost everyday of my life.
NoRegrets: That can be frustrating...to look back and see that things did NOT have to be so hard. 20/20 hindsight and all that. Just keep trying to take it easy on yourself now and then :-)
Mrs: See, I think that is the great thing about talking about and even anticipating regrets. Right now, some things, maybe even most things, can still be changed! It is a good feeling.
I think that for my age I know a great deal of regret, and so can reply with honesty that the things I have mourned the most are those I did not do.
Throughout high school I made the twin mistakes of being anti-social and refusing to acknowledge my sexual orientation, decisions whose consequences plagued me throughout my first two years of college.
Realizing while still tender in years the great error of my ways, I have since endeavored to avoid constructing future regrets through today's inaction.
BrightenedBoy: You are fortunate to have had the insight into yourself so that you could set about being true to yourself. You may have other regrets when you are older, but I agree the most egregious ones can be about inaction.
I regret not moving to kodiak island and living with bears. Can't bare (I'm so lame in my word choice, haha) to think about that missed opportunity!
Sebastien: Seriously? Wow, how cool would that have been? Although it sounds pretty hard core...I might like the idea more than the execution.
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