Things that will never come again...
By TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85137)
Shingle Springs, California
January 1, 2010 8:19pm CST
Well I was over on YouTube watching this Peter, Paul and Mary video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIl8JMkPylM (Don't they work an audience well?) And I was thinking I wish I had taken the opportunity to see one of their concerts. After all, Mary Travers passed away last year, so that is an opportunity that has passed me by permanently.
Last summer I got an e-mail advertisement for the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles for Topol's farewell tour of Fiddler on the Roof. There's another one that passed me by. Just didn't have the vacation time or the money to fly down there for a show.
When I was still living in LA, I passed on seeing Yul Brynner in The King and I and Richard Kiley in Man of La Mancha.
And those are just shows....
There's my mom and my Uncles Mike, Dck and Jim who aren't there any more.
Do you ever think about opportunities missed, things that are gone, or especially people you will never see again?
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11 responses
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
2 Jan 10
Yes, one of my biggest regrets is that i never got to see ELVIS in a live concert. As many of u know i was a major fan of his & still am. I have all kind of memobilla of him in what i call my computer room where i stay most of the time. HE WAS THE KING.

@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
4 Jan 10
I wish we both could have seen our faves.
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@babyangie27 (5176)
• United States
4 Jan 10
I think about people I miss,and things I nor my kids will ever be able to do with them. I am not much of an adventurer so I can't recall any opportunities I have missed. But I would love to go to LV so far I haven't been able to 

@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
2 Jan 10
yea,all the time.
but,past is past.as much as i wish i can't go back.
but i can still think fondly of the people i miss,then they're never truly gone.
@jillhill (37353)
• United States
2 Jan 10
Yes....especially people. Someone who was in your heart and you wonder what or why it turned out the way it did....and yes...some missed opportunities I wish I had acted on differently ...but truly things do work out the way they were supposed to...say you went to a concert and were in a horrible car accident on the way home...you will never know all the reasons....but sometimes things do work out the way they are suppposed to.....when my mother passed it felt like the end of the world....and some days all I wish were to have her back to go out and have taco salad one more time....but there was a bright spot in all of it. My mother and I were so close I never knew much about my dad or him things about me...until my mother passed and I finally got to know him.....so things turned out the way they were supposed to and I found a new opportunity in "missing" another one!
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@nijolechu (1842)
• Canada
2 Jan 10
Yes, I think many people have many deep regrets that they have made in their life. I wish I had spent more time with fellow members and wasn't in a feud with them. There were some concerts and events I couldn't attend because I was too busy with stuff. Oh well, I just move one after those regrets.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
3 Jan 10
Ah, yes. I can think of many opportunities missed throughout the years . . . and nothing that can be done to make up for it. But there's one I can think of right now. I quit my job to start a family about 5 years ago . . . I kept in somewhat touch with my bosses whom I gotten to know during my 15ish year stint there. I knew my boss had gotten some kind of cancer, but always heard he came out of it as he was strong as an ox . . . I meant to visit him and his wife (my other boss) but just never gotten around to doing it. I last heard from Mrs. Boss last Christmas that he was doing well - so I sort of didn't make it a point to hurry to visit (as always). Well, their daughter found me on Facebook a couple months ago . .. and informed me that Mr. Boss had passed away from his cancer last year. I guess the cancer came back and he had had enough of this life. And so, I never got to visit my boss, nor say goodbye, or anything and I could really kick myself in the butt for it now.
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@JAYMAR777 (839)
• Philippines
2 Jan 10
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
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
3 Jan 10
Happy New year.
And speaking of opportunities, I just got one to get Stars on Ice tickets, 20% off after I had decided not to go. Hmmm.....
@tamarafireheart (15384)
•
2 Jan 10
Hi Dawnald,
There were two things in my life that was an missed opportunities, one was when my aunt came to visit my mother and one afternoon she held my hands and told it this was the last time that I was going to see her, I didn't know at the time that when she went home, after a few months she passed over, then there was anot one, my old boss rang me and aske me to take over her position as I knew the ropes, you see I have left the employment many years ago and it was out of the blues that she rang me, but I turned it down and regreted it ever since. That was my two biggest missed opportunites in my life.
Tamara
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@mods196621 (3652)
• Philippines
2 Jan 10
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!

@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
2 Jan 10
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.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
3 Jan 10
He was very fascinating. I heard him speak on TV once, but never in person, though he was in Los Angeles many times.
@MrKennedy (1978)
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2 Jan 10
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
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
4 Jan 10
That is true, and if you're lying around moaning about the ones you have missed, you may also miss the new ones that come along!











