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(25,203 posts) Thu Apr 17, 2025, 08:08 AM Thursday

Do you have any regrets in life? [View all]

You know, things you wish you had done differently?

I have two:
1. I wish I had gone to Woodstock. I was 14 at the time and heard about this incredible music festival. My best friend and I were considering hitchhiking from Detroit to New York for it. We chickened out, thinking our parents would kill us.

2. I wish I had gone to India. The same buddy and I took a year off college and hitchhiked around Europe. We were in Istanbul and were thinking of going overland to India. This was 1976 and one of the few times in history that the countries we would travel through weren't at war. Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Should have done it. Oh well.

And you?

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