...what's the one thing, in your final moments, that you would most regret never having done?
2006-11-30 09:46:07 · 64 answers · asked by Hello Dave 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
See my son grow up.
~X~
2006-11-30 11:18:52 · answer #1 · answered by X 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never having found true love.
Or not having trained a dozen chimps to carry on my work.
Or not having finished writting my novel.
Actually now I think about it in my final moments I would not regret anything - I would really want to enjoy my last moments and knowing that I only had a moment or two left would hopefully allow me to let go of all the pain and baggage I have carried around so long. I live with a lot of regret, I hope not to die with it.
Anyway I am off to train a dozen chimps... just in case!
2006-11-30 09:57:31 · answer #2 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't say for sure, it could be the strangest thing... like, not going for that bike ride when I had the chance springs to mind, even after all this time- I was back in Japan just for a week, staying at a dormitory, and a friend offered to lend me his bike... I declined, but I would have had great fun if I'd taken him up on it...
or would I regret missed opportunities in love, or not knowing friends as well as I could? Hmm... could be the missed bike ride actually....
... why, do you know something we all don't? Like, is an asteroid heading for earth at this moment? There could be no time for a last regret in the final moments... we'd all be braced for impact ;)
2006-11-30 10:42:03 · answer #3 · answered by Buzzard 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've done everything I need to do with my friends and family if I died tomorrow I would have no regrets that there was anything left undone with anyone there.
I hope you don't mind Donna but I would have 2 regrets if I died tomorrow
The first thing I would regret would be that personal circumstances in my life dictated that I didn't give my son a brother or a sister, he has often asked for one.
The second would be that didn't get to be with my girl and hold her hand again one last time (as it's been a while and it wont be happening by tomorrow either)
I wish I could have said none
I hope you can
2006-11-30 10:21:07 · answer #4 · answered by Yeah yeah yeah 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont have any regrets for things I've never done!
The only regrets I have are for the things I did but shouldn't have to people I cant say sorry to as they are already gone!
I may die tomorrow.......? If there's something after I may get the chance to do it !
2006-11-30 10:10:29 · answer #5 · answered by willowGSD 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would be sorry that.....
I never really were to experience life the way I really wanted to.
That I nevertold the guy my secret (crush)
That I never told my very best friend How much I appreciated her love.
That I never showed the people I really love that I really really loved them
That there were so many things I havn't done yet
That I never got to chase my biggest dream of being a singer or a poet.
Never once telling my brothers I loved them.
Those are all the things I would regret. Kinda sad isn't it that if we died tomorrow we would never had done what we most wanted to do....Tell our loved ones that we DO love them no mtter what weve ever said.......
We all should start doing every thing we put down for you to see. becauseyou never know when your life will end.
2006-11-30 09:59:26 · answer #6 · answered by Courtney 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose I couldn't regret anything, speaking that the course of the universe is perfect in all aspects of itself. If something seems terrible to us, it's merely something we cannot see the big picture of, because things always lean towards the greatest good in the big picture. Like when sometimes you don't get hired for that job you wanted, and you think it's a bad thing, when later you get a better offer and it turned out to be better off than if you would've taken the other job. All misfortunes turn out that way. It's all a matter of faith and belief. Perhaps there's something afterdead better waiting for us, and we simply can't see it cause all we can see is everything we don't have instead of what we're blessed with.
2006-11-30 09:53:42 · answer #7 · answered by Answerer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its not that i didn't do it, its that i didn't try that i would most regret. there is nothing that i was in love with and i didn't try, i have failed many things so i wouldn't really regret anything. i think i did all that i could, some times all i needed was just a chance to prove that i can do certain things that i didn't do, not that i didn't have what it takes to do it. so i think dieing is not all that bad. life it self is rather cruel. bloody hell this sounds like George bush speech where he goes on about that "known, know and now stuff". i still didn't get what he is saying.
2006-11-30 10:04:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will never regret not doing things. I regret things I have done, such as not telling my parents things that happened in the past and causing them more pain in the long run.
2006-12-01 04:18:10 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have had a thousand answers for this a couple of years ago....now, I regret nothing.....I feel I do as well as I can every day....I treat people with kindness....humanity.....and I am sooo spiritual that everyday I get up thinking "what else good can I do today"....great question....Bless you!
2006-11-30 10:05:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Calling my father and telling him I forgive him. Me and him haven't spoken since I was 14 and I am 20 now and I have held a grudge against him for the past 6 years.
2006-11-30 09:54:21 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋