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

[CoddlingMolly]

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!

Me too, I often think that when I’m walking the dog and I wonder whether there used to be bears and wild boar around. I’d love to walk in the woods at dusk and hear wolves howl. Too many fairytales as a child I think

Agree.
I had an ex who never touched me really, without me initiating. The day i realised how sad i was about it was when i saw couples same age as us ....3 couples.. within id say 50 yards, holding hands. I was happy for them but envious. I wanted that.

That I'll never know what it's like to the be the mum of a strapping son.

That I cannot go back a century and see this country before the car became king.

Me too
from a young age always wanted to visit Australia, pet a kangaroo and hold a koala bear.

im much older now and don’t think I’d cope with the flight 🤔

I do wish I'd been less impatient and had taken a year off before uni and done the year in Israel thing a lot of Jewish young people do - it was before things got really bad (though I acknowledge they have always been bad for the Palestinian people). It's an amazing country in many ways but what the government has done is so horrible it's unforgivable and it's probably never going to be safe there in the foreseeable future.

Similarly agree about Russia - I did Russian GCSE and visited Moscow, I'd love to see St Petersburg but obviously not going anwhere near with Putin or anyone like him in charge.

I'd love to try a super deluxe long haul flight with a lie-flat bed, but can't see myself ever affording that.

I'd like to ride a horse again, but my bad hip has got worse since I was a child and I can't actually sit astride even a fairly small pony anymore.

The relentless gun violence in American schools ruined this fantasy for me.

I can't imagine being a parent in America. Having my six year have to do shooter drills, practising how to survive a school shooting.

I worry I'll never be able to travel like i want to

To the people wishing they'd been to Australia- just go!

The flights aren't so bad. Sleep one leg, watch movies on the other. You'll be there before you know it.

I started re-reading Sweet Valley High, it has not aged well 😬

I would like to have been a 50s housewife in America and worn a frilly apron and set a dinner table with a full table cloth and roast dinner while wearing pearls. My husband would come home from work and not have to take anymore calls or answer emails. My kids would turn up on their bikes after having various wholesome adventures around the neighbourhood. And I would make everyone some hot milk before bed.

That sounds nice Happyinarcon

I would have liked to be a stenographer in 1920s New York, dressed in the latest styles (especially hats), wearing plenty of red lipstick , face powder and eyelash-black, with a rotating cast of gentleman friends, dancing to big band jazz, sharing an apartment with other self-supporting women and looking out for each other.

In reality I would have been exposed to appalling levels of sexism and misogyny, of course, but the dream still appeals.

I wish I'd seen oasis at their peak.

I wish I could have afford Disney when my kids were young. I wouldn't enjoy it now due to health issues.

I wish I'd had more random sex when my body was banging. 😂

I dont worry im doing all i want now. My kids have their own lifes now im single and free.
Im not 40 yet and loving life.
No regrets at all.
All the things i got told i`ll miss out on i had no interest in.
Now im doing so much more with more confidence.
Travelling eating out meeting new people seeing the world long walks.
Spa days coach trips.
No plans to slow down either.
A few weeks ago i woke up and thought i,ll go to barcelona for a week and i did
had a wonderful time met a lovely man for the night 😉.
Much cheaper solo travelling.
Came back home and went to the norfolk lavender gardens a week later for cream tea and a bun.
To all people out there dont think you cant do things you really can.
Go live (ditch the husbands and kids and have a whale of a time).

Emigrate to Australia or Canada.

I was up for it when first married, two siblings went to Aus, but my then DH wasn't. We visited my siblings a few times, they have the best life out there.

When ex left for the OW I was just that bit too old to do it, definitely not enough capital or income to make the move as a retiree.

@CoddlingMolly EXACTLY the same for me. The 60s I’m obsessed with and also used to beg my parents to move to America so I could be a high school student

Long list of dead musicians I'll never see. Also, at this point in my life, I'm probably never going to live alone in an apartment in New York. I would have liked that!

I wish I could have seen the old London Bridge with the buildings on it and the Thames frozen in winters.

I always wanted to go to Iraq for the ancient history but I don't think that's a very good idea now!

And I wish I could have been in love and married and secure with a house I owned and the job I wanted when I was young, but it's too late now and it does sometimes make me so sad.

I would love this too. We need to bag the Tardis and go and do some time hopping - I'd like to see it all in different point in time.

💐

I always felt like I wouldhave loved going to an American school!!

I also would have loved to have worked for MI5. unfortunately in my 40s now plus never finished my degree and that seems to be a stipulation

People need to learn to astral travel on here!

I really wanted to go to an American high school too…. I’m mid-forties now so that clearly isn’t going to happen!
i went over there at 18 and finished my teens there but I’d missed the experience I’d wanted.

That I'll know what is to trust someone and not have that trust broken.

I regret that I didn't go to Berlin before the Wall came down. And that I will probably never get to Persepolis.