What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[AppleQueso]

I'm noticing that most of those "regrets" aren't actions, but inactions.

Might be worth thinking about.

At the time though, I always had a reason why these thing didn't play out. The reasons made sense at the time, but now I'm not so sure.

I didn't do sport because I have asthma, and it was bad when I was kid. Asthma attacks two or three times a week. As I grew up its lessened, but I still get them if I get too winded or too pissed off/stressed. Just look at how much came from that single action though, that single choice. How am I ever to be sure that taking action is good? The few times I fought for myself always went bad. I was so sure of what car I got- until I had to deal with the hate that came with it. For the time I was smoking, I was completely fine with the decision, since I thought maybe be edgy or some shit like that might help with a trashy girl I was into at the time. I let my hair grow out because I like it long- but nobody else I know likes my hair. Not my friends, not my family, not any girls I take interest in. Have I picked good friends in my life? Well I'm questioning that now. I know of at least one I dropped in the last year because he wasn't good to have around, and that's caused issues with other friends, because he is in integral part of their circle. Was I wrong to not like him for the things he did? Am I doing something wrong by losing those friends connected to him?

I just don't know what to think.

Everybody has regrets. Even if it's just "I wish I had done this sooner." I know I sure as heck have plenty of them.

Try not to beat yourself up over it too much.

[samsonlonghair]

You know Drifter, there is such a thing as intramural sports. You don't have to be exceptionally good; you don't have to be in great shape; you just need to sign up and show up.

[darsparx]

- getting my butt handed to be on a silver platter by the truffle troubler(for the 5th time)...man this sucks I think it's time to end it before the controller ends up through the screen tonight and just reattempt monday

[Forlorn Drifter]

You haven't seen the folks here.

Getting into sports now wouldn't change anything- it was all back in elementary school. I didn't start playing football, so I became a nobody in our town. And that's pretty damn hard to do in our town. The gauge of how important you were in our town pretty much boiled down to how many highschool freshman knew you the year after you graduate. Not a single one knows me, so I never amounted to much.

[AppleQueso]

Your small town experiences just highlight how much I've loved living in San Antonio.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Speaking of small towns. 4 weeks till I'm finally out on my own again and out of this stupid Casino town. I can't wait. My patience with living here is gone. Not here any more. Nope.

[Key-Glyph]

I didn't do sport because I have asthma, and it was bad when I was kid. Asthma attacks two or three times a week. As I grew up its lessened, but I still get them if I get too winded or too pissed off/stressed. Just look at how much came from that single action though, that single choice. How am I ever to be sure that taking action is good?

I just wanted to point out that decisions are different from unpredictable outcomes, and that you can't judge whether the former was "good" solely by the latter. There are an infinite number of variables attached to any single action that the results, at least in the types of long-term scenarios you're framing here, are largely a crapshoot (and subjective, too). Event chains are much more chaotic than a simple breakdown of "If I'd done X, then Y would/wouldn't have happened." It's not fair to blame yourself like that.

All you can do is try to be the best person you can in any given situation, understand that sometimes you'll fall short, accept that you're a perpetual work in progress -- and then cross your fingers that after all that work on your part, the chaos of the world deals you situations you can turn into something positive.

I'd like to recommend the movie Run Lola Run to you, if you haven't already seen it. It is the best artistic depiction I have ever seen of this concept that a few seconds' difference can change everything in unforeseen ways.

[samsonlonghair]

Speaking of small towns. 4 weeks till I'm finally out on my own again and out of this stupid Casino town. I can't wait. My patience with living here is gone. Not here any more. Nope.

I was unaware that Denver was a casino town. You know what they say about a fool and his money, right?

[RyaNtheSlayA]

Speaking of small towns. 4 weeks till I'm finally out on my own again and out of this stupid Casino town. I can't wait. My patience with living here is gone. Not here any more. Nope.

I was unaware that Denver was a casino town. You know what they say about a fool and his money, right?

My location is incorrect. Denver isn't a casino town at all (and Denver is great, just saying).

I actually live in Black Hawk, CO.

If you like gambling, drinking, and smoking, well you're in luck, because that's the only thing to do up here. It's basically my worst nightmare.

Although it can be very pretty at times.

[samsonlonghair]

So Black Hawk is like the Reno of Colorado?