The only things people tend to regret are the ones they haven’t done. I started my list about a month back, some of the things I’ve done already, but there are tons more to do.

Thank you for your post! (and just remember, for the one about not caring what others think… what people say about you is more a reflection of them than you.)

This post is inspiring! I hope you wake up today and ride your skateboard all over town!

But it didn’t work. Those things were not passions of mine anymore. I had changed with children and age, and what interested me at 35 was old news at 54. I had to start over.

I am still stumbling my way along, not sure where to go. I did go back to school, though, for Residential Planning, since being an architect was high on my list of loves as a kid. But other than that, it’s all uncharted territory – a little exciting and a little scary, but it’s what is.

I highly recommend the motorcycle safety course, as I quite enjoyed mine. In fact, I’ve been thinking about taking it again, as a reminder.

I have been somewhat of a lurker for a few weeks on your site. I just wanted to drop a comment to wish you best of luck on your to-do list, and mention that I enjoy reading your posts. I’m 21 myself and have a rather large to-do/bucket list. I hope I’m successful in achieving every single point on that list someday.

In high school I got into a pretty terrible accident and totaled my first (junkmobile) car. Well, at 17 my mom and I decided to make a big purchase and bought my a pretty cute little coupe that I still own today. However, my idea of such a “cool” car at 17 was awesome and the car was everything I wanted it to be. It was cute, a bit speedy, and fit me perfectly (since I’m a small person). I never really drove anyone around back then and I never really had to use my car – it really was just for looks.

Now, I rarely need my car but I really don’t like my coupe anymore. It’s been five years, but it’s too small to fit my 6’5 boyfriend, and when I moved around constantly things would fit awkwardly or not at all (compared to a sedan, etc.). Now, I’m ready for a more gas-efficient, easy to park small car (like a smart car, etc.) because I do live in the city where there are always about 6 feet of parking space between cars but never that necessary 8…

Anyways, I think muscle cars are also for “show.” Unless you LOVE driving and plan to really see what the beast can do often, it’s just a large chunk of money for vehicles that are kinda… inefficient. In my city there are a LOT of very wealthy students (from oil countries) whose parents buy them the nicest Corvettes, Mercedes, etc. But in the end, with most roads at 25 MPH, (at top, 35) – those cars are useless here.

Other practical things are that most muscle cars don’t have passenger space (but maybe you are at the point in your life when you don’t want passengers?), expensive to fix and insure, and many people end up worrying about them so they really just garage them and not take them out.

But then again! It’s all up to you! (You can see my bias for the small car, but it is your life haha).

If it happened to you with an everyday (small) dream, goal or task you’d be really down. When it happens to the big stuff you dreamed for years, you just shake it off and move on.

Since childhood I wanted to be a musician, live off playing and so on. And I did that. Only to realize it’s not as fun as I thought it would be.

It turned out to be a hard profession, being away from home for longer periods of time. Having a family (which is also what I wanted) would be difficult that way and so on. So, even though it was my lifelong dream I walked away.

I had no problem with that.

On the other hand, I didn’t win on the auction for a G3 clamshell ibook last week (yes, I want one. Don’t laugh!). I was so disappointed.

Even though I can bid on other auctions….

Congrats on getting the first one out of the way – I’m with Kelli… let’s see the design!