Plinky: What’s Your Biggest Regret?

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  Bungee jumping podczas Juwenaliów Śląskich 17.05.2008r Lotnisko Muchowiec w Katowicach. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

  What’s your biggest regret? How would your life have been different if you’d made another decision? See all answers

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• September 21, 2013 by hibernationnow

• Regrets, I’ve had a few….

• Looking back is easy, isn’t it? But, I wasn’t the same person 30 years ago as I am now, hadn’t learned enough about myself or the world, didn’t have the confidence or the drive (or the psychotherapy!) My biggest regret is not having the ability to take CHANCES in life. I say ability because I really was not able to take a chance, I was crippled with self-doubt, and fear and I could not get out of my very limited social comfort zone. I had been that way since I was a child. Back then, there were no child therapists because if there were, I would have not lost so many years of my life to being scared and always anxious and afraid.
  It carried over into my adult life too. I lied to people saying “I couldn’t go places” when it was pure, stifling anxiety. It took many years to relearn but even at my old decrepit age, it’s never too late to learn something new.
  And, as Oprah has said all along “when I knew better, I did better.” And, so I did. I’m grateful for the years that I have had the courage and not upset that I didn’t have them longer.

*Bungee jumping: JUST KIDDING

Bungee Jumping Versus Skydiving

Image by TomSpinker via Flickr

Be Serious

I would rather stay on the ground, eat a picnic lunch and watch the fall leaves turn colors. I’m not a risk taker (though both my children are.) If I had to pick one I would go skydiving because there is another person that is strapped on to you for your first lesson. I watched my son’s tape when he went skydiving and it was horrifying albeit exhilarating. You couldn’t pay me to go bungee jumping, wouldn’t do it for ten thousand dollars.  If your next prompt is “Would you rather swim in shark infested waters or sleep alone in a snake pit?” Count me out!!!

Extreme Sports? Bring it on! (NOT!)

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You Jump, I’ll Watch
Extreme sport? Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. You have got to be kidding me. I tremble at the word “extreme.” Sure, some of you will write about hiking mountains, and bungee jumping, massive triathalons and motorcycle marathons…..but for me? I’d be happy if I could walk every day at a consistent (medium) speed. Right now, with Fibromyalgia, I can’t even count on a slow, measured walk, twice a week, because of joint and muscle pain. I have no interest in “extreme sports” but to be honest, I never did and never will. I never was a big risk taker and the adrenaline I would get from fear alone is enough to make me pee in my pants. When I was much younger I once thought about sky diving or “parachute jumping” where you are shoved out of an airplane with some cord to pull so that the parachute opens. The trouble with me is, when I am stressed I forget things. Forgetting to pull that cord for that parachute? Not a wise choice. I’m staying home.