Retirees: If given the opportunity, what is the ONE thing you would like to do over? (55, divorced)
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Mistakes? I'd have to take both shoes off to count them!
Fortunately I was born with a very strong constitution, and a true zeal for work. I was able to paper over a lot of the mistakes with my energy and business sense.
But I still know I made them. However, I don't dwell on it. Too many more mistakes to make, yet!
I think as some of us grow older and look back on our lives, we think of a mistake we made that really impacted our lives and wish we could do over to hopefully change our lives for the better.
Mine was getting married at 19 to a man I did not love. If I were given a chance to do it over, I would not have married that guy but would have gone to college to become a history teacher instead.
Even the most seemingly insignificant choice made different early in my past might have charted a totally different outcome to my life at the time I am writing this, so I cannot imagine what I would change if I had the chance to. Things can always be better but they can always be worse, too. I think it is called the butterfly effect.
However, in general terms, I wish that I had strived harder to avoid any kind of debt, other than purchasing a house now and then, but even at that, I wished I had kept the houses to the bare minimum that I/we needed at the time or foreseeable future. At one time when I was single and had a company vehicle with paid gas and paid insurance(all I had to pay was a small amount for personal use), I had no debts and didn't even have to deal with insurance companies. Imagine having no debts and not having to pay for car insurance!
I would have changed my education and location and gotten an MA in art history, mixed with the upper classes and found myself a couple of really rich sugar daddies. Then I wouldn't have had to work so hard in life. Why didn't someone tell me how that worked !
If I could change one thing, it would be that when I was parenting a young boy and going to school to re-train for the workforce, I would have found a way to make time for friends. I didn't.
I should have taken that Mickey Mantle rookie card to college with me, so my mom couldn't take it to the church rummage sale. And Willie Mays.
my mother gave away my (original edition) Barbie doll
i had not even moved out! i was only in 6th grade! she did not even ask!
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