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Is there anything in your life you wish you could have changed / overcome?

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annsixty Sat 07-Oct-23 10:50:00

Perhaps badly expressed but with me it has been fear of flying.
I know it has limited my life and experiences.
Presently on GN so many of you have been or are going on lovely holidays and I am so envious.

I have flown quite a few times but the anticipation for weeks before and then the thought of having to fly back has spoilt things.
Fortunately my H was not the sort of man who missed it.
He was happy with walking holidays in this country and frankly enjoyed anything as long as I did all the planning.

He retired at 55 and we could have had lovely adventures if only I could have overcome my fears.

Do any of you have regrets like this?

NotSpaghetti Sat 14-Oct-23 08:21:31

I regret that I didn't enjoy and make use of all the amazing facilities at my undergraduate university.

I went back years later for postgraduate study and did SO much more. I used labs and equipment, "picked brains" from other tangential disciplines and learned SO much.

When I was 17 and went to university I realised how privileged I was to be there but I didn't fully realise that the whole university was there for me! It was my oyster - abd not just my own department. I did go to other academics in other schools to ask/borrow/try to understand specific things but never (for example) used the equipment in engineering or used the psychology department to further my understanding of my own undergraduate work.

I know this is a rather niche regret but sometimes I come upon something and know it was there to explore and I chose not to!

Janetashbolt Sat 14-Oct-23 15:19:32

I lived in Far East for 7 years, flown hundreds of thousands of miles but the last flight home I was sick before and during. Not flown since (1997). Neither child likes flying, one drugs up before the other doesn't even have a passport

Ali08 Mon 16-Oct-23 06:39:07

I wish I had been a confident child, and a lot more daring!