A big BUT in your life

dseag2

dseag2

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So, fill this in. I have a happy life "but" I wish...

I will go first. I have a happy life but... I wish I'd come to realize that life goes by so quickly and the silly things I worried about as a young person really didn't affect my life at all. That includes acceptance, popularity and status.
 

A big BUT in your life​



If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a silhouette has gotta save me at least a hundred keystrokes....

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OK, serious (almost)
This thread sorta reminds me of an old poster I created in another life

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I've had a good life.
Blessed with a great wife and two sons,

BUT...

Sometimes just before sleep takes me, or dreaming, I think of my first years in the military.

My job was to load bombs on B-52 Bombers, 54 500 lbs. bombs in the belly and 30 100 lbs.
under the wings.

Know that they killed many, including civilians.
I've tried to live a meaningful life since then.

As I turn 70, these thoughts haunt me.

That is the 'But' in my life.
 
Feelslikefar said:
My job was to load bombs on B-52 Bombers, 54 500 lbs. bombs in the belly and 30 100 lbs.
under the wings.
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My husband had the same job for the Air Force, in Thailand and Korea. I've wondered if he feels the same way but I've never asked -- wouldn't want to put the idea in his head that I thought he should worry about it.

You didn't get to choose your job. Everyone in the military shares the same amount of responsibility, whatever their part in the machine -- just as they all should share the same pride for serving their country.
 
BTW-Who uses "sick days" to call in sick?
I could have been President; or at least, a Senator. Or a world famous surgeon. Those could be my "buts", yet, as I get older, it's not what "could have", but what was. All in all, ,my life wasn't that bad. I don't have much BUT I believe I'm an ethical guy. They aren't building my Presidential Library, BUT that doesn't matter.
 
@dseag2 I like your OP, and agree with it and feel the same way. What we did in the past sometimes is remembered in flashes sometimes in day dreams and sometimes they just creep up on us. BUT, if take a few moments to feel the environment we were in at that time, we have a an authentic account of our true feelings of the world then. We have thousands of memories that are our experiences, so I try not to see my life with regrets but with realness about my experiences...some good...some not so good. :)
 
"I have a happy life BUT ..." nah, no buts for me. Everything in my life has brought me to now and I wouldn't change a thing :)
 

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