They missed out “I wish I spent more time arguing online with strangers”
Sounds like I should be skipping work to have more gay sex
I don’t think that’s what they’re saying, but I am completely onboard with this.
You should aim to have these regrets because it’s the people who lived long enough to be interviewed on their death bed that have them. The people who died suddenly probably have regrets like “I wish I hadn’t been texting while driving.”
“I wish I hadn’t been pulled into the ore crushing machine by my sleeve while on the 15th hour of my shift because it’s the only way in this town to make enough money to pay for the medicine my son needs to fight the disease this town and refinery caused in him”
But I guess maybe that counts as “I wish I didn’t work so much”
“I wish I had more bullet holes on my wingtips and the central section of the fuselage, and maybe some on the elevator.”
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When one of my coworkers was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, his first words were, “Damn, I wish I had drank more beer.”
Making a bold prediction here: in 30-40 years’ time, one of those will be replaced with something to the effect of “Waste less time on the internet”
I’ve noticed this with videogames, and tbh I’m kinda surprised more people haven’t connected it to there yet. Videogames can be a hobby, but if it’s all someone does at home for mental stimulation, I don’t forecast it’s living to the fullest. When going through a new experience, it can be memorable, yet the grind-heavy nature of most modern games doesn’t produce much for memorable moments, and often is forgotten in a month’s time save for the knowledge of how much time was spent on that.
Social media is rather similar, in that it mirrors the addictive nature of locking your attention and supplying unmemorable mental stimulation, at the cost of substantial time.
In my completely nonbiased and objective opinion that’s factual in every way: This is not healthy. I dont feel anyone will look back and say, “I wish I spent more time getting upvotes,” or “I wish I got that cool skin in the game I dont play anymore.”
Yeah. I play a lot less videogames than I used to.
I’ve mastered 1, 2, 3, & 5 😄
- I wish I’d never been born.
So in other words, the things they are wishing for are what kill you early.
Apparently one common thought of people that survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge is not “in glad it’s all over now”, but “I could have solved all those problems except for having just done this”.
I’m not sure I buy that in cases of really bad depression, but in more situational situations, yeah, I’m sure realising you have the power to even just walk away or stop caring about some big stressor is probably really powerful.
Ofc in the regular world most people would rather die than, say, walk out on their family or their job.
I wish I paid more attention to where I was walking and hadn’t fallen off that cli
I still can’t get over randomly seeing Japanese words in an English context (especially when written in Kanji) haha. But yes, I do maintain a huge (thick? tall? lot of? big?) 建前 with almost everyone.
I did it on a wedding to top it off.
None of the slave contractees want to see me again.
There’s unionship celebrations, and there’s forcing people to marry for publicity ceremonies to settle the allegations of “premarital sex.”
Quick to façade when rumors show up, but not façade when I hear crying from the bride that she doesn’t want marry the groom then.People really love convenient lies. Many times more bearable than deal with your own moral misguidings. And thing that upsets me the most, is they know they are being hypocritical, and enjoy every Machiavellian aspect of it.
Damn, I am a-ok on all those points since transitioning.
Wait, does that mean I’m dy
Current at work and focusing hard on #2.
Makes sense.
Why should I live my life for the sake of how I will feel about it on the ONE last day of it?
I don’t think that people are dying with a mind that suddenly changed. They just have hindsight to know that they spent too much time worrying about shit they shouldn’t have worried about, and instead should have spent time being happy and free
yeah i kinda much rather live my life avoiding the things i regrett rn, like not seeing my family enough, losing touch with my friends and not making any new ones, feeling like i got no time for fun and all i do is work and minimally recover from work to work again, but also not working enough to achieve the things i actually care about
honestly kind of a similar list
If you are happy then you probably aren’t doing too badly
