Things that will never come again...  

yes i do. There were opportunities i wish i grabbed. but then again what can I do? i missed that one. The good thing is that I became better. knowing what to decide on what is important over what is urgent. if I don't have the money for a certain trip or a certain concert, even how much i strived for it. I just tell my self...Not for me..but if things are in my reach and the issue is just some effort on my part, i do whatever I can, because you just don't know if you still have another chance.

Happy new year dawnald

I imagine most of us think on things missed from time to time. When I lived in Clearwater, FL my daughter was 11yrs of age. There we were almost on the front steps to Disney World. I was going through a heart wrenching divorce and financial problems. Although we were there for five months I never took her to Disney World. There are times I think of that and wished I could have taken her.

Then I sometimes think about an opportunity that I had that once when I was young that could have opened doors of possible celebrity fame that I did not seize but let pass me by.

Unfortunately, we cannot do it all, see it all, spend time with them all and we have to make our choices. So we look back now and then and wonder at our decisions. I reckon we would do so no matter what choices we made. It seems to be human nature to look back and wonder "what if"

Hi dawn, I wanted always to meet one person in Vienna, Simon Wiesethal, and supposed for some reason he would live forever and there'd still be chance - my big regret not taking the time to do something about it as I think he was the most fascinating person of the twentieth century.

Hi Dawn!

While I suppose all of us have regrets of one sort or another, I'd prefer to turn it around and think of all the things I did get to see, the people I've met, the ones I've gotten to know and spend time with and the experiences I've had--and be grateful for all of those instead. Regret is such a waste of time and we aren't meant to go back and get a second chance. It's just the way life is.

oh yes Dawn I sure do. My husband was always going to take me to this thing they had here about the days of old when knights were bold where they had reenactments of jousting and you had a wonderful dinner served by old English serving wenches but he never did. then he became handicapped and I had to go to work full time. well it just did not happen. I will have to watch that Pete Paul and Mary video on youtube. I really love them so much and we always watched them every Christmas too. I did get to see Yul Brynner in the King and I and was so glad we did get to see it,as soon after that my husband had to have ca surgery and was partly handicapped As a result. he did live another ten yeArs though so that was lovely and if he had stopped smoking when they told him to he might have been with me now, but the addiction to cigarettes was just too hard for him so he died of a third heart attAck.

Hi Dawn. I guess everyone has missed many opportunities. I'm thankful that I DID miss many and while I may regret missing some, that is all over and done with and I see no point in entertaining regrets. I am thankful for things I have done and for experiences I've had and I have no desire to change anything.

One regret I harboured for a while concerns my first trip back to England, when I was 44 yrs old and I met my biological father. He left when I was a toddler. I remember seeing him twice after that, the last time being when I was 11 and we left for Australia. For a few years I regretted not throwing myself at him and FORCING him to accept me, but I know that wouldn't have achieved anything, anyway. He died less than a year after I met him but few people mourned his passing.

Hello, Dawn. One particular thought keeps coming back to me. My father died suddenly when I was only 16. It was a tremendous shock, because only the previous day, he'd had a thorough medical and was declared fit to return to work after two years of serious illness. His death was unconnected with that illness, but it made the whole thing harder to come to terms with.

I was really close to my father, and over the years, I've thought of all the missed opportunities. He never saw me married or my children and grandchildren born, he never saw my brother make a real success of his life, after a very shaky start. He wasn't there at my graduation - mind you, he may not have been there anyway, as I graduated as a mature student of 49, and he was 33 when I was born. He never saw me move to Spain with my wonderful second husband. I know they would have got on really well, and Dad visited Spain 3 times before he died, and he loved it. All that cheap booze and cigarettes, and plenty of sun!

But what really hurts most is that I never saw him become an old man and witnessed the physical and mental changes that came with years of experience. When he died, he was just my father - i didn't have the experience of life to be a friend as well as a daughter to him, and I know we would have been great friends, had we had the opportunity. It's 40 years since I lost him, and I still think of him and miss him often.

hi,dawnald. happy new year.

As for the chance of work or other something missed, things are not necessarily gone. you can remedy it.
I think birth, older, sick and death are the natural law. people are powerless for it. So, As for people, we'd better visit them as frequently as possible.

There are many opportunities that I have missed in life, but I try not to regret it too much as I know there is nothing I can do and new opportunities are popping up all the time that I can take advantage of

This means that memories of somebody closed to me that I know 'll never be comeback again. I think of the time when we are together and treasure that moments. I love to go back in this memories but there still the pain inside. Anyway I have nothing to do but to accept the reality. Thank you and have a happy new year!