{"id":1662,"date":"2022-01-22T00:07:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T00:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2023-01-02T03:01:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T03:01:09","slug":"you-dont-get-any-do-overs-in-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/you-dont-get-any-do-overs-in-life\/","title":{"rendered":"You don't get any do-overs in life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"I want to go back
\nAnd do it all over again
\nBut I can't go back I know
\nI want to go back
\n'Cause I'm feeling so much older
\nBut I can't go back I know\"
\n -Eddie Money<\/strong><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I have grown older (as we all do), I have started reflecting more on my life and what I have done well, what I have enjoyed and enjoyed and what I wish I could do over but I know that I can't because there are no do-overs in life.<\/p>\n

Looking back on the years gone by<\/h2>\n

The years seem to go by faster and faster each year and I don't really have time to reflect but when I do, I think I would do the following differently.<\/p>\n

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  • I wish I had made more friends in High School and participated in more activities. I played in the marching band and participated in Y.M.C.A  sports, but I wish I had played at least one High School sport, and participated in more clubs or extracurricular activities.<\/li>\n
  • In college, I wish I had made better grades and focused more on what I wanted to do after college. I was young and made a lot of mistakes. I also wish I had joined a fraternity because the college I went to (Elon) was very much focused on fraternities and sororities for social connections and belonging to a fraternity would have given me a big group of lifelong friends and connections.<\/li>\n
  • After college, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my career and the USA was in a really big economic recession at the time so I took a low-level job just to have some income and gain some real-world experience. I was miserable and barely able to make ends meet. If I had to do it all over again, I would join the military and serve my country for a few years while I gained new skills and could go into a better job market to start my career.<\/li>\n
  • As far as my career, I am happy for the most part but when you look back there are always things you would do differently, am I right? I took some jobs just to have some income and they did nothing for my career. I also had some misfortune with some lay-offs with companies I enjoyed working for a wanted to stay longer.<\/li>\n
  • Early in my career, I wasn't making much money and it seemed I would often run out of money before the month. If I was able to make ends meet it was barely. I ran up some debt quickly and really regret that. In particular, I had a lot of credit card debt, and paying off a lot of debt is really an uphill climb.<\/li>\n
  • Since I struggled a lot financially early in my career, I didn't start saving money early enough. If I had started earlier the savings would have compounded and would be pretty impressive today, but I only started saving and investing a few years ago so my retirement savings are meager. Benjamin Franklin wasn't kidding when he said \"A penny saved is a penny earned\". I also like to remind myself of another quote I heard recently. \"Only poor people pay interest. Rich people EARN interest.\"<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    It would be great to be able to live a life with no regrets. Maybe some people do have such a life, but unfortunately, I do not. I have made many mistakes and definitely have regrets. I write this blog post as therapy (I like to write) and also to reflect on the past while having a much more optimistic view of the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \"I want to go back And do it all over again But I can't go back I know I want to go back 'Cause I'm feeling so much older But I can't go back I know\" -Eddie Money As I have grown older (as we all do), I have started reflecting more on my life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[180,182,104,181,179],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-do-overs","tag-hindsight","tag-life","tag-looking-back","tag-regrets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspired-evolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}