The God stuff right at the start turned me off.

The major change I would make is not to have lived my life as if I was the hero or the movie star. Books, stories and TV had that effect on me and it took most of my life to ditch bad things and become my real self. Along the way I helped others and never did real harm to anyone. A big disillusionment to myself but this started to change once I became atheist. I was never Superman or Tarzan and the God image Fell way also. At one point I described my life as being shattered. It all becomes different as you put the pieces back together. Today I have no enemies and no real hate. If I'm in conversation with someone and their hate comes out I ask them how they can live like that. So many of us are interconnected but too busy to see how. I'm sure we all want a life well lived but when we are gone there is always much unfinished business. Try to inspire others in a positive way.

“Standing on the stern of a ship the wake shows you where the ship has been as it fades out in the distance. The wake does not drive the ship.” Alan Watts

Oh, all the little things, sure, I'd do a few small things differently, and I'm glad I realize how to enjoy my life more about mid-way through it. The older I get the more mellow I am toward enjoying more of the minutes of my days.

The big things I'd have done differently - wow- would have changed my life completely! I would have not have been in such a hurry to marry -- good choices take time, so I would want to wait for the right one. That in itself would have changed my trajectory in a major way.

If something doesn't feel right when you're doing it -- yes you can change your mind before it's too late --- and it's never too late.

I would have just avoided meeting the man I married, instead I would have married the one that carried my graduation pic in his wallet for over 40 years.

"The unexamined life is not worth living" is a famous dictum supposedly uttered by Socrates at his trial for impiety and corrupting youth, for which he was subsequently sentenced to death.

I wouldn't change a thing, because everything I've ever done, has gotten me to where I am now.
Although, it would have been cool to have bought Apple stock when it first went public.

Giving this topic some thought as I am sitting in a parking lot with a computer. Had I to do things over when I was in high school I would have tried harder to get better grades, I would have realized I was having trouble with a learning disorder and gotten some help. I would have upon graduation written to my uncle and seen if I could have gotten into Cal Tech. Having that not work out I did have a full ride scholarship to a technical school I now forget the name of. That would have been great as I am now building a CNC lathe almost from scratch. That would have taken me away from Montana and the strangeness that was. I would have liked to worked for the Lab at Livermore doing something interesting, helping make really technical things. That having not worked out I would have probably gone to live with my mother in Portland, where I would have quickly gotten out on my own and found where I could now intersect with the present life I have. I would have enjoyed school more, I would have asked more questions and I would have involved myself in the life I was making for myself. Now this would have led me away from the Philosophy classes I took at the Universities in Montana, where I learned how to learn and how to do research. Knowing what I know now I could make it work.
Life is what you make of it, it is what you fight to do, to learn, to figure out, one has to get active in its doing.

You know how to make a grown man cry as that is what I would have done. Though I think I would not have let my dick rule over my brain without a fight and some thought.

Waxing is a bit painful, bit it's easier than shaving every few days.

Sounds a lot like Emily's " Return To Earth" speech in Our Town. Few people actually fully realize and experience life while they are living it, except, as The Stage Manager character says in reply to her speech, " The saints and poets, they do some.....".

I have few regrets, but I would do many things differently if I could do it over, knowing what I know now about myself and life in general.

I remember Erma Bombeck. I sometimes read her column, which was near Ann Landers' column, which I read everyday.

Anyway, regrets. Yeah too many.........

I too have some regrets.......there may have been a few parties that I missed......