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What are you wistful you will never do, be or see?

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CoddlingMolly · 18/03/2024 22:58

It's hard to explain what I mean but I'll try!

One relating to the future...I feel sad that I won't be around when humans inevitably connect with some other form of life or some incredible space discovery.

There's one regret I have about the past...That I wasn't around for the hippie era.

One that's kind of odd and I can't put my finger on why I feel like this but...I was a teenager in the late 90s/early 2000s and I always had this weird regret that I couldn't ever experience being an American high school kid or going to an American college. Nit sure why but that's really strongly connected to that era and my age then.

Just wondering whether anyone else gets these wistful thoughts!

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Hazelnutwhirl · 18/03/2024 23:35

EndlessWashingUp · 18/03/2024 23:23

I've always wanted to visit Russia - see Moscow, St Petersburg, go to the Bolshoi. I suspect that'll be impossible for who knows how long.

Me too, looks out of the question now for who knows how many years.

WinterMorn · 18/03/2024 23:25

EndlessWashingUp · 18/03/2024 23:23

I've always wanted to visit Russia - see Moscow, St Petersburg, go to the Bolshoi. I suspect that'll be impossible for who knows how long.

That’s exactly what I was rhinking

EndlessWashingUp · 18/03/2024 23:23

I've always wanted to visit Russia - see Moscow, St Petersburg, go to the Bolshoi. I suspect that'll be impossible for who knows how long.

RM2013 · 18/03/2024 23:22

That there are so many places I’d love to visit but probably won’t

HappiestSleeping · 18/03/2024 23:20

Never saw Led Zep 😞

CoddlingMolly · 18/03/2024 23:13

Swishswish26 · 18/03/2024 23:03

I was also a teen in the late 90’s and desperately wanted to live in America and go to an American high school. I think the likes of Clueless, Saved by the Bell and Sweet Valley High idealised it for me. Still love America and I do also feel wistful for those times!

Maybe it's completely natural, we were forced fed that stuff after all....Sweet valley high! 😍😅 I just really wanted to go to "a game", prom, a drive thru, a diner....Have those oddball friends in a technicolour world.

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WinterMorn · 18/03/2024 23:12

That there are parts of the world I doubt I will ever see due to our (rightly) poor diplomatic relations with them.

CharlotteStreetW1 · 18/03/2024 23:09

That I never saw the Queen (QEII) in the flesh.

Swishswish26 · 18/03/2024 23:03

I was also a teen in the late 90’s and desperately wanted to live in America and go to an American high school. I think the likes of Clueless, Saved by the Bell and Sweet Valley High idealised it for me. Still love America and I do also feel wistful for those times!

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