As most of you know, I was diagnosed with brain cancer last month. So it got me thinking about Life as you so far have lived it. But don't get me wrong. I will explain all about my final pathology report in another post.

But what I want to know is: How do you feel about your life thus far? Have you lived it to the best you could? Any regrets? Anything you would change, had you the power? What your goals still are that you absolutely have to attain? Just stuff like that.

Me? My life has been great. I married a beautiful woman, have three beautiful daughters, and another baby on the way (yes, for those who are wondering, I'm Catholic), and no regrets in my life what-so-ever. My goals still to attain would be to at least walk one of my daughters down the aisle for her wedding, if not all of them, and to be able to build a new computer using the new DDR2 technology, and to take my wife and kids to some exotic vacation land down south of the border. Is that asking too much? Naw...

So...LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST!

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I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore, I am perfect.

Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

[url="mailto:Bruintone@netscape.net"]mailto:Bruintone@netscape.net[/url]Bruintone@netscape.net</A>
Yahoo! Name : jedibruintone77

The only regrets I've had so far is that I wish middle school wasnt so easy. I wished I really was challenged in middle school so I could get those study habits and work ethic I need now

I think all I really want to do is get my license, get married to someone, attain a high place in the united states government, and then take over the world

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"Just remember -- No matter how bad things get, Northern Minnesota will always be there"
-- Garrison Keeler

Well, considering I'm only 15, I really have a lot of time to live the rest of my life to the fullest. So far, it has been good. I have a lot of friends, good parents, live in a nice area, and for the most part have plenty of fun.

My goals are pretty general and basic at this point. Graduate high school, graduate college, get married, have kids, get a good job.

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Kids must be shot by Monday.

Honesty tests for workers can't be trusted, report says.

Psychopaths are unpredictable.

Jay Leno's Headlines > Everything

15 years and my only regrets were living at a time where my school forced people to take two language GCSEs, when I suck at both French and German.

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The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever.
-- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, The Father of Rocketry

Having to ditch someone special to me to protect them from my parents... I miss her... alot...

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Don't be unwise judge me not by my size. You wont believe your eyes watch the xwing rise!

Getting an incurable disease, methinks.

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Map-Review | Digital Core | The Matrix: Unplugged

Farewell, MaDaVentor. In our hearts, you'll always live on.

Life is life and that's that for me. For my health, I am glad that I avoided blood cancer and cured rheumatism via blood marrow transfusion, but possible diabetes may change my life somehow.

For other things though, I probably need to do something, but I can't really say what. But I have to be glad what I have now etc. etc.

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<landfish> FastGamerr > Satan

How do you feel about your life thus far?
Meh.

Have you lived it to the best you could?
Uh... sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Any regrets?
Plenty of them.

Anything you would change, had you the power?
Yes. Oh God yes.

What your goals still are that you absolutely have to attain?
Wake up tomorrow. Buy some milk.


My life's been pretty sucky on average - but it's had some awesome high moments and some awesome low moments. I'm very indifferent as to if I like or dislike my life right now - I just don't really care about anything anymore. Just sort of.. living it day by day. Nothing on the horizon, too much in the past sort of thing... And the present? It consists of basically nothing. But I'm only young, so I guess I've got many years ahead of me to either waste or make something of. But, knowing me, wasting it probably will be making something of it.

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"When all else fails, eat pie."
-¬thoughts from beyond observance

Jin, do you have any desire to live? Everyone needs something/someone to live for...

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I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore, I am perfect.

Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

[url="mailto:Bruintone@netscape.net"]mailto:Bruintone@netscape.net[/url]Bruintone@netscape.net</A>
Yahoo! Name : jedibruintone77

I'm 17 and have a ton of regrets, although I'm becoming increasingly optimistic about the future. I got admitted to the University of Illinois' College of Engineering, despite slacking off for my entire high school career. (It's scary, actually. The next four years of my life was determined by a couple hours of filling in circles.) It took me four years, but I've moved from "dysfunctionally introverted" to "functionally introverted". I finally adapted to the high school enviroment just in time for graduation.

I have no real goals, beyond having fun and doing well in college. Actually, I'd like to do something revolutionary in computer science and make the cover of Time and a million dollars before I turn 25.

I don't know if I have a desire, but I'm not about to go kill myself any time soon. I don't exactly "enjoy" my life all the time, but I don't hate it, either. I just... don't really care. If I was told tomorrow that I was going to die in 7 days, I really doubt I would care much. But I'm sure now that I've said that someone is going to tell me that I would care.


Honestly, I just don't give a ****.

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"When all else fails, eat pie."
-¬thoughts from beyond observance

I regret spending much of my days doing nothing. My laziness is slowly eating away time from my life...

I could have done things meaningful, but I didn't...

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Snail racing: (500 posts per line)
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An exile of the Soviet Massassi Regime

i wanna be a doctor and get married to this one boy. and a child. i would really want to experience having a kid.. i dunno what id do if i found out i co uldnt have my own sometime in the future

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[teletubbie voice] BIG HUG!!!! [/teletubbie voice]

I would like more academic success than I'm currently experiencing (darn my laziness!), reasonable job satisfaction with enough income to not continue my current position of having to survive on pasta and cheese sandwiches, love in its many forms, definitely a child or two (Wolvie, it's one of my biggest fears to find out I can't conceive) and I'd also like to somehow become sensible enough to appreciate all that good stuff, which I don't seem to be able to do now.

In terms of regrets, I certainly have a few, but they've all taught me something, so I suppose it's worth it in the end. I'd like to change certain things, mainly dealing with problems and beginning to study harder earlier on in life. I suffered the same problem as fish, in that secondary school and college were so easy I never did anything, and now university is smacking me in the face with quantum mechanics...aarg!

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/end boob rant

2?

We didn't have to take any at ours - but I took French and Spanish anyway..

But forcing people to take 2 languages?

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Sweet irony...

Recently I think I've been getting 'live life to the fullest' confused with 'live life how I want, not how I really should'. That will all change soon, though, once my uni results come through.

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The Massassi-Map
There is no spoon.

My only regrets right now are racking up a bad credit card debt early in life (too addicted to making PC's), and not being able to marry my long-time girlfriend because of it - If it weren't for those debts, we would have been married 3 years ago. Now its going on 6 in may...

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Fear is here, where's the beer?

I'll be graduating Uni at 18 with a biochem degree and going to medical school, so that is pretty shibby. I want to research... well, it's a secret for now. All I gotta say it Petresun. Do a google on it =P.That is about it. Yes, Petresun, not Peterson.

On the downside, nothing much. Had a crush on a gal, but before I could act on it, she went to a better place. And I don't mean disneyland. I had my eye on her for a few years, never had the time or the balls to persue, so yeah, I'm slightly depressed about that.

Life's been good to me though, I think between my parents and my comrades, I'm pretty thankful.

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http://www.4guys-1dragoon.cjb.net -No porn. We promise*

One of my main regrets is not getting religious earlier. I've wasted many years of prime Torah Time (Note to self: I can use that for my alter-ego, MC Hamash).

What do I want to do in the future? Hopefully married to some nice girl, a professional hopefully, so I can concern myself with my writing hopefully. If writing doesn't work out, I'm planning on studying psychology and the cognitive sciences college. Those fields make enough money so I could keep my East-coast lifestyle.

Oh, and travel to Israel. I want to do that, too.

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Superstition brings bad luck.
-Raymond Smullyan, 5000B.C.

You know, Snake-eyes, you can get healed of cancer...


How do you feel about your life thus far?
Its been a dismal failure. So far.

Have you lived it to the best you could?
No, Ive been a lazy slob that got by on the skin of his teeth. Ive lied, cheated, and done many other things that I am neither proud to admit or remember.

Any regrets?
Far, far too many. The harm Ive caused others, the harm Ive caused myself, the missed oppertunites, the forgotten chances, the glorious failures, etc. Hardly a day goes by that I dont wince upon thinking about something Ive done in my past that I wish to God I hadn't.

Anything you would change, had you the power?
Yeah. The day I got my first computer, I wouldve thrown it out the window. The day I met Esther, I would have tucked tail and ran for the hills. The day Adam tried to set me up with his friend Jessica, I wouldve said "hell yes, call her over"...

Actully, no, scratch that last one. If memory serves, she was a *major* slut.

What your goals still are that you absolutely have to attain?
Oh, the usual. Finding the right girl, raising kids, etc...

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

When I turned 13, I realised that I had wasted my childhood. Now I'm about to turn 18 and I can't stop thinking about how I've wasted my adolescence as well. Sometimes it seems like I have nothing but regrets. No reason to go on; I just do because I have no reason not to.

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When bread becomes toast, it can never go back to being bread again.

I guess i'm pretty happy with my lot at the moment. I'm young, fit and healthy and that's about as much as i can ask for. I guess my only ambitions are to see the world, get a job one day that I'll at least halfway enjoy, meet the girl of my dreams and one day, maybe have a family of my own.
On a similar note, I'm currently reading a book called On the Road by Jack Kerouac, apart from giving me even itchier feet to travel, its a great book about life, the main character just seems to exude enthusiasm for life and discovering new experiences. If you're feeling a little disillusioned with life, it feels like a kick up the backside to wake up and get on with things, especially this line: "...because life is holy and every moment is precious"

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Jagged Conscience: No maeve, don't stand up for Rob, he needs to learn.
Maeve:that's Rob?
Jagged Conscience: He's a Rob

GBK: Yes, I know. I will get healed from this stupid cancer. You just watch and see. But the thing about it is: I now have a completely different outlook on life. Hence the reason for this post.

The majority of the people here are school aged teens (no stereotyping here), whose lives are
Scary. As a teen myself, I was never bored, and I dunno why.

So I will add this question: What if your life were to end tomorrow? Then how would your views on life be?

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I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore, I am perfect.

Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

[url="mailto:Bruintone@netscape.net"]mailto:Bruintone@netscape.net[/url]Bruintone@netscape.net</A>
Yahoo! Name : jedibruintone77

What if my life were to end tommorow? Id spend today sitting on the curb repeating "Im too young to die"...

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

What if my life would end tomorrow?

I would probably worry about not being able to finish JK/JA-projects, but then again I would say "**** projects, they still would be quite unfinished".

The nerd side would get in IRC and play lots of games... the other side...

I haven't talked to the other side for days.

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<landfish> FastGamerr > Satan

So far, I feel pretty good about my life, but at 21, I still have a lot of time to accomplish stuff. I'm in no rush to et out of school. I'm having a good time and the real world will always be there waiting for me. I have some regrets, but they aren'tanything that would have altered my life. As for goals, I want a job that I like. Doesn't have to pay a lot,but I want to do something I really like. Get married, have a couple of kids.



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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Being that I just turned 18 I feel unfulfilled as far as life... I have slacked off most of my HS years academics' wise. I have become quite a talented hockey player and have a steady relationship with my gf. I got a 26 on my ACT, (87% overall in the nation) and am goin to college. I just need to stay away from drugs and getting anyone pregnant and become a more motivated individual. Snake your life sounds wonderous and I am sorry about your diagnosis jsut dont ever give up or ever settle for less, you are going to walk all your daughters down (presumedly that they get married).

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-If you don't know, then don't ask...

Being a teen sucks for some, and not for others. Like those crazy people who say these are supposed to be the best years of your life.



Mostly; a waste of time.


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When bread becomes toast, it can never go back to being bread again.

Well, I'm still in Middle School, so I've got a LONG way to go, but as for now, my life is okay. It's not good, and it's not bad, it's okay. I mean, I have friends, good friends, I've got a nice neighborhood, nice parents, the goods. But, I'm lazy, don't play any sports, dandruff... Also, during 2nd grade I left for a private school, then in 4th grade went back to public school. I believe that changed my life forever. I became lazy at the private school, stopped playing soccer, lost interests in things, and was just horrible. I lost my other friends on the count aswell. So, I regret some things, and some I don't. But, as for goals, I want to become a cop, or a writer. I want to be the first person to pee on the moon, and create a device to transfer thoughts into a real object/thing. That's about it, so my life is okay.

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-> The Cosmic Castaway <-

-> Titan A.E. <-

My biggest regret is doing nothing. I literally spent my weekends, 9 hours or more a day, playing computer games, and doing nothing to keep myself healthy, or keep a social life. I'm very selective on the foods I eat so that never helps either. I haven't met to many girls so I don't have too many options of whom to choose from. The only thing I have going for me is my strong common sense, my grades, my acceptance letter into Purdue, and the fact that I have awesome parents and have never done too many things that I regret (other than being lazy and wasting away my childhood and going out with some slut before I even knew who she was).
I really need to get a hold on things before I let opportunities slip away. Being 18 now, childhood is over. It finally hit me when I got the Selective Service card in the mail. MY childhood is gone and I can never change all wasted hours. And I can't change it just like that. It takes time... and I always have to much to do for school...
Too bad there's no way to get kids to understand just how much they will regret their future if they dont live life to the fullest. People told me that all the time and I never believed them. I wish I would have listened. I hope everyone listens to this, and I hope someday, if I get married and have children, I can somehow convince them to make the right choices so they don't have many regrets.
My life is mediocre right now, and where people constantly wish they had what I have, they don't realize that having THINGS isn't what makes you happy, it's what you've earned, what you've done for others, and your family that keep you happy.
I'm done now, nobody will probably read this anyway

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RAWRRR I've read these forums for years but only posted a couple times...

Yes, I spend way too much time playing computer games, yes, my social life might not be completely messed up but is still relativeley impaired, and yes, I've not had a serious relationship with a girl to speak of.

Yet...unlike many other people, I don't feel like I've necessarily wasted all those years away. Although I could have spent the last 5 years doing more productive things instead of hurting myself playing stupid video games (which has taken a serious toll on my eyesight, dammit!), those years have been...fun. A whole of fun.

I regret not being myself the whole time. This last year and a half has really sucked--I haven't been able to be me at all. After leaving my hometown and moving to Alabama, a lot of regret there. It was largely my choice, thought the choices weren't really even or fair. Anyways, ever since ~year and a half ago, I've had to act differently around everyone, and I'm about to explode. It r teh suxkz. Honestly though, I don't mind my life, it's been very fulfilling even at 15.

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I am soooooo bored...........

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I check my e-mail

LMAO!!

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I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore, I am perfect.

Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

[url="mailto:Bruintone@netscape.net"]mailto:Bruintone@netscape.net[/url]Bruintone@netscape.net</A>
Yahoo! Name : jedibruintone77

How do you feel about your life thus far?
Well, on the whole, it's been okay. I still feel that the best is ahead of me - I'm graduating high school this year, and I'm looking forward to university.

Have you lived it to the best you could?
I haven't exactly taken care of my body. A lot more exercise and a better diet is in order. Other than that, well, I think I've done okay so far.

Any regrets?
Quite a few, most involving members of the opposite sex.

Anything you would change, had you the power?
This is a pretty open-ended question, but there are a few times when I have done really stupid things and then wished I hadn't... I would change that if I could. World peace would be nice as well.

What your goals still are that you absolutely have to attain?
1. Graduate from university.
2. Get married
3. Go to Mars
(Not necessarily in this order)

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Death to all who oppose me!