If I could live my life over

[slofox]

Well.
According to the medicine man I visited on Monday, I have just about had my span. For the last decade I have known that I have an eventually terminal liver condition (not booze induced either you bunch of cynical bastards!). The guy that did the Fibroscan on Monday says its pretty well fucked (although I maintain that I will see for myself thanks) and that I have 2 - 5 years to go without a transplant. (Not sure I want to go there...).So I guess its time to get the bucket list in order and reflect upon the errors of my ways.
Part of it I have already done by finally getting another bike after putting it off for too many years. As for the rest?
I doubt I would change much if I could have another go. The good, the bad and the ugly - it's all part of the ride. Perhaps I would make sure that I was a little more employable next time round...then I could play with more toys.
Other than that? Meh. When it comes to jumping off the ultimate cliff, it matters not which path has taken us to the clifftop. As my old dad said to me when he was eighty-seven, "It's all a big fat nothing son". Meaning that at the jumping off point, nothing prior to that moment counts for anything.
So I say, get in and enjoy the ride. Go for it. Embrace it all. Good and bad are relative terms - it's all experience.
In the immortal words of Pink Floyd,
"The memories of a man in his old age
are the deeds of a man in his prime"

Make sure you have some when you get there. Coz I have. And I will continue to collect them just as long as I can.

[Mystic13]

Slofox I agree with the keep doing. I did my first parachute jump this year joined by my wife and two of my daughters and my son. One daughter decided it wasn't her.

Had that slight moment of WTF am I doing as I stepped out. For all of us it was the first time. The youngest was my son at 9. They guy he went with did somersaults coming out of the plane and then let him pull the strings to guide the chute. He's also the youngest jumper they've had.

We'd had moments of going to do it previously but people chickened out. It was seeing "The Bucket List" and not long after "The Jane Austin Book Club" that had characters jumping out of a plane that triggered it this time.

12,000 feet on a hot summers day, falling with very warm air shooting past was a neat experience. I don't think any of us will forget the experience.

At 9 yrs old I'm not sure that I would have jumped. My son wasn't going to then changed his mind when we got there. I really wanted to say "No son, not this time". I really struggled with letting him go, felt real uneasy and had to bite my tongue while I thought. In the preceeding week I was pretty happy because he was adamant he wasn't going to jump, and I didn't want him to. His feet on terra firma was a huge relief. The other two were 15 and 17 so I saw it more as their choice.

[TLMAN]

Think i would of been a schoolgirls bycycle seat.........

WHAT!!!!!!!

[1wheel riot]

i wouldent change a thing. (if your not on the edge your not living)

[TuonoTom]

I wouldn't change anything. I'm too young to be thinking of things like that

[mctshirt]

I'd like to think with a second chance I would lead a good and blameless life enriching society with good deeds but I suspect I'd continue to fuck up in new and inventive ways - I can't be arsed going through all that character building shit again - easier to be happy with with my lot