Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Day 15: So the world is ending...
... The Mayans were right and fire and doom are reigning down -- what do you you most regret having left undone in your life?
Hm. Well, I could launch into another thing about "I don't have regrets, blah, blah, blah". But that'd be a cop-out. This question doesn't really seem to be about that. It seems to be more of a "what do you wish you'd had/made time to do" sort of thing.
If the world ended, right now, right this very minute, I'd regret:
that I never got to spend an entire weekend with OBF.
that I never actually finished getting a college degree.
that I never had a career I was fulfilled by.
that I never got to travel to all the places in the world that I want to see.
that I never quite managed to make a beef wellington.
that I didn't finish the quilt that's been sitting on my end table for 2 years now.
that I didn't take any of my art to a level that I'm satisfied with.
that I didn't write a book, like everyone's always telling me I should.
I'd regret... That I just didn't have enough time, or resources, to do all the things I want to do.
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and of course, the main point of the question is how can you fit some of those things you would regret into your life... for me I am going to make a point on seeing the lil bro and his family, and to generally connect better with loved ones as I think that would be one of my biggest regrets had the world ended. Not having resources is a big issue with some of my possible regrets too - stupid world and its economic barriers and class limitations.
ReplyDeleteThe trouble with a lot of the things that I wish I could do, is that they're largely things that are outside of my control. Things that I have to rely on other people for their completion, or things that I have to gamble on society for. Which sucks.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying not to obsess, too much, on the things I want to do, but didn't/won't get to. Because, ultimately, there are always going to be things left undone in a life. We're bounded by time, and space, and we are not infinite. I'm trying to do the things I can (or at least, work towards them), and relax about the things I can't do.
we are not infinte?! SHUT YOUR FACE!!!! ;)
ReplyDeletebut yes - I do get that a lot of things will always be left undone, such is the nature of life. But. You could finish the quilt and if you want to practice beef wellington - I am sure you would have more than a few people willing to linen up and eat the attempts!!
ReplyDeletelinen up. yes. we shall all be draped - maybe toga stile.
ReplyDeleteline up. clearly i meant line up.
omg. i give up.
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ReplyDeleteThe quilt, I'm definitely working on. Slowly, but surely. Damned thing takes a LOT of time though.
Beef Wellington... Is expensive. Another one of those resource issues.
But art, and writing, are relatively inexpensive to work on. So I'm doing those. Just seems like I'm stretched a little thin lately, tho. Ah well.
oh for crying out loud... I had a "falls over laughing" in there. but i used the wrong damned emote brackety thing, and it thought i was trying to do some html. and, of course, it won't let me EDIT the darned thing... *sigh*
ReplyDeleteWhen I told my Ex I was planning on having my body cryo preserved for the future, she said "why." So I said, "because there's still a lot of things I want to do." So she said, "well, you better get started." I guess hinting at the fact I'm 65...
ReplyDeleteI told her I had started, in fact I had been doing things I wanted my whole life but like your quilt some things take a long time.
After I've paid the initial large sum, they tell me I can have a close relation preserved for only $645.00. Maybe I'll choose her so after I've lived about 25,000 years I can say - SEE!