What is the biggest mistake in life ?

[Social Media]

What do you think is the biggest mistake ?

 

 

[Ralf001]

Definitely the Aus prime minister apologizing to the Aboriginal natives.

[Henryford]

Getting married

[Bert got kinky]

 

Someone telling Yoko Ono that she could sing like an angel.

 

[proton]

spending too much time on the internet

[Sparktrader]

Only 3 outcomes in life

 

You win

You learn

You die

 

 

[lanng khao]

Not coming to Thailand 20 years earlier than I did..

[Lacessit]

Having any relationship in a Western country longer than 12 months. A less expensive mistake is buying a house here for a Thai woman.

[nikmar]

Wasting it!

[ThailandRyan]

Failing to have a plan B or Cwhen Plan A goes pear-shaped.

[KhunLA]

Tough one, as all turned out pretty darn good, luckily & thankfully.

... Obviously, getting married first 3 times.

... staying social, peer pressure, what little I did fall under, at teen age, delayed a bit of growth and responsibility development.  Fun, but less alcohol & drugs would have meant investing in the future more.  Less thought of I'm not going to live past 30 anyway, so screw it, do anything.  Could have retired before 30 yrs old, if surrounded by different peer group.  Zero mentoring in those circles.

... not listening to myself all the time, probably #1

[VocalNeal]

Don't think I have a biggest one. They all carry about the same weight.

[Sparktrader]

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

Failing to have a plan B or Cwhen Plan A goes pear-shaped.

What is C goes bad?

[Bert got kinky]

 

If we are talking about the biggest mistake ever made, I would have to stick with my earlier Yoko Ono post.

 

If we are talking of personal mistakes, mine would have to be treating my posting to Berlin as one massive 2-year pish-up, instead of exploring and soaking up the history of the place.

So much to do and such little time.

 

Edited November 1, 2022 by Bert got kinky

[Will B Good]

Unnecessarily closing down options. 

[OneMoreFarang]

tink too mak

[KhunLA]

Non personal ... world level mistake.

 

League of Nations / UN being organized and led by 5 of the largest arms dealers in the world.

 

Arms use to be needed as a deterrent to prevent wars.

Now wars are started to sell arms for billions in profits.

 

Never ending wars for never ending profits.

 

 

[ThailandRyan]

10 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

What is C goes bad?

Then your toast and life as you know it or hoped to know it ends up with you being a traveler staying 4 days here, 3 days there, especially when your stocks and crypto have tanked.......staying in cheap hotels or living Thai style.

Edited November 1, 2022 by ThailandRyan

[OneMoreFarang]

Looking at the pictures of the school reunion after 20+ years and realizing that when I was young I would have married one or two of those girls who now look like real old women.

Good luck they didn't want me when we were young.

Edited November 1, 2022 by OneMoreFarang

[Sparktrader]

10 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Then your toast and life as you know it or hoped to know it ends up with you being a traveler staying 4 days here, 3 days there, especially when your stocks and crypto have tanked.......staying in cheap hotels or living Thai style.

Poor people cant afford to travel. Im still on plan B.

 

Are you on plan C?

[Berkshire]

Not sure I can narrow it down to any one thing.  But if you know you're going to die tomorrow, could you say that you've lived a good life?  If the answer is "yes," then you've done alright. 

[ThailandRyan]

7 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Poor people cant afford to travel. Im still on plan B.

 

Are you on plan C?

Nope Plan A and living life accordingly with money to squander.

[Sparktrader]

1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:

Nope Plan A and living life accordingly with money to squander.

Never had a divorce?

[ThailandRyan]

1 minute ago, Sparktrader said:

Never had a divorce?

Minor bumps in the road and really did not loose anything. Kept the houses, pension and so on. Lost 2 cars and that's about it. Stocks never catered and in fact I am still up in all investments.

[Walker88]

"My" biggest mistake or "THE" biggest mistake?

 

I think the biggest mistake most people make is choosing the wrong parents.

 

Of course we cannot choose them, so I'm being facetious, but I think winning the Birth Lottery is the best thing that can happen to anyone, so losing it must the worst. It certainly makes life much more difficult. The Universe is quite random at that level, and by human objective standards, incredibly unfair.

 

So much is inherited, and so much a function of where, when, and how one is born. Intellect, physical appearance, height, athleticism....those are largely inherited. Then if one was born, say, as a white male in a developed country, especially if sometime between 1950 and 1980, success in life is almost guaranteed. A person almost has to go out of one's way to fail if given those birth circumstances. Toss in decent intellect, a pleasing enough appearance, being an athlete....and one is going to be a success by late 20s at most. Once one has independent wealth (if wealth is a goal), life is pretty damn easy, and also pretty damn fun.

 

So mistakes? I have come to the belief that life is about 95% dumb luck and 5% conscious effort. I was lucky enough to not make the mistake of being born to the wrong parents. Things just fell into place after that, so what I have 'achieved' are things for which I can hardly take credit. I'm the first to admit I didn't really earn much of what I have achieved. I'm just extra lucky I didn't <deleted> it up, because the ability to <deleted> up may well be my one independently developed skill that I've been able to sublimate.

[Crossy]

2 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

What is C goes bad?

 

Then you need Plan-9 ...

 

[Sparktrader]

14 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

"My" biggest mistake or "THE" biggest mistake?

 

I think the biggest mistake most people make is choosing the wrong parents.

 

Of course we cannot choose them, so I'm being facetious, but I think winning the Birth Lottery is the best thing that can happen to anyone, so losing it must the worst. It certainly makes life much more difficult. The Universe is quite random at that level, and by human objective standards, incredibly unfair.

 

So much is inherited, and so much a function of where, when, and how one is born. Intellect, physical appearance, height, athleticism....those are largely inherited. Then if one was born, say, as a white male in a developed country, especially if sometime between 1950 and 1980, success in life is almost guaranteed. A person almost has to go out of one's way to fail if given those birth circumstances. Toss in decent intellect, a pleasing enough appearance, being an athlete....and one is going to be a success by late 20s at most. Once one has independent wealth (if wealth is a goal), life is pretty damn easy, and also pretty damn fun.

 

So mistakes? I have come to the belief that life is about 95% dumb luck and 5% conscious effort. I was lucky enough to not make the mistake of being born to the wrong parents. Things just fell into place after that, so what I have 'achieved' are things for which I can hardly take credit. I'm the first to admit I didn't really earn much of what I have achieved. I'm just extra lucky I didn't <deleted> it up, because the ability to <deleted> up may well be my one independently developed skill that I've been able to sublimate.

True. Most rich from family. Good looks and genes family.

 

I know plenty of smart poor people. No luck.

 

Life is 80% or maybe 95% luck as you say.

 

 

[xylophone]

4 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

Then you need Plan-9 ...

 

Ah, the Ed Wood "joke" that became a cult classic!

[Crossy]

Just now, xylophone said:

Ah, the Ed Wood "joke" that became a cult classic!

 

Yup, so much so that someone restored the original and then colourised it!

 

It's still just as bad as the day it was released.

 

[Bert got kinky]

3 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Ah, the Ed Wood "joke" that became a cult classic!

I have never seen the film, is this the old 'Ewa Woowoo' joke?