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!

Hahahaha! Where do you live? I’m guessing somewhere like Milton Keynes rather than Canada?

Hah, nowhere like Milton Keynes I'm in Finland. We also have Lynxes, a bunch were spotted nearby the other day, and my friend saw one in her garden a couple of years ago. But I never bloody see anything except hares, and a fox once.

I'm the poster wistful about hair and two of mine have red hair... For the time being! It was very cute when they were little but ît did cause them bother as teens/ adults

I am wistful that I will never experience my 20s as a single, care-free individual. I love my DD so much but I had her when I was 17; I'm now 21, living with a 3 year old and my DP and often long for the same kind of life as my peers which I will now never have. I also tried to go to university twice but was riddled with PPD so failed and now have no idea how to get into financial stability or a good career, and owe thousands in student loans for a degree I never completed. I also have autism so everything is nerve-wracking and exhausting.

With all my age-related injuries and ailments, that I’ll never ski again is my most wistful regret

I’ll never be Debbie Harry 😭

@MargotMoon 😁🙌🎸

I’m in my 50’s and get sad that I’ll never experience first love again.

Same. Although I’ve seen Robert Plant and was given his plectrum.

I took my DC to see Paul Simon a few years ago. It was awesome.

I saw him with Alison Krauss, that was pretty good.

Did you go to the one in Hyde Park?

My brother got to go on a school cruise ( 1970s) and they stopped off at Libya! Can't see that ever being on a school trip itinerary now. Would loved to have visited India in the 1920s.

All this astonishing pining to experience being an American teen, going to High School, being the Prom Queen, drinking a Soda with your Buddies at the Diner, the pinnacle of success being a cutie-pie Cheerleader with uber perfect teeth.

An overdose, methinks, of American TV culture: Happy Days, Beverley Hills 90210, Mork & Mindy (Godawful!), Saved By The Bell (terminally Godawful!), Hawaii 5-0, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, drone, drone, drone........

@HumphreyCobblers I actually emigrated to Canada, largely due to my love of the Montgomery books, can't say that I do much canoeing though.

Like others, I would love to have grown up in the U.S, still dream about moving there, particularly when I compare house, petrol and food prices to here in BC

I really wanted to grow up on a farm or smallholding with dogs cats ponies and chickens where I'd collect the free range eggs in a basket. I managed to have 3 chickens in my suburban garden for a few years and loved it. I have the dog, and have had the cats. But I never will have the farm 😞

That the NYC I loved is gone. I lived in the East Village in my early 20s and it was like a playground. Pre cell phone - you didn’t need to make plans as you would just bump into friends on the street and in dive bars. Sitting in Tomkins Square Park on an early summer evening feeling the vibration of the city coming alive at night.
i went back years later and it had regenerated and changed so much - the arrival of Starbucks, huge rents forced out the locals and was now populated by rich students. Everyone I knew had wall grown up and moved away.

I did. At Earls Court in the 70s. Some benefits of being old.

Regret not travelling as much as could.. regret not moving out of uk. Sadly too disabled to do that now. I say whilst well go and do anything!!

I bet they were fabulous live.

When I was pregnant with first baby I had my last magazine job and had a offer to go on a press trip to Russia. I didn't go as I was worried about the trip, so someone else went in my place. She came back and said it was amazing. Not a big regret in the grand scheme of things, more a mild one, but damn I wish I'd gone!

That there are lots of places I have never been and probably won't go but have resigned myself to it. You can't see everything so I just plan on seeing as much as I can within time and money available.

No, it was in Glasgow. We had good seats near the front.

I will never be able to ride again or even look after horses. I miss it so much. Disability and pain make it impossible now but my horses were such a huge part of my life.

I am wistful because I'll never see Russia and I've always wanted to. At 60, I don't think it'll be safe in my lifetime.