Life choices

[Dizerens5]

I’m worried about life choices.
When I was a kid in school, I wanted to be a tommy-gunner in the secret police. When I was 16 I rode around on a 1939 Triumph Speed Twin. Then I had a working (or sometimes non-working) life as a desk-driver taking care to keep out of the way of important people. Now I’m 71 and I truck around on an old R65  --   at least when there’s no snow and ice, which is not the case just now.
 It’s all been good. Have I done ok, or is there something wrong with me?

[Bengt_Phorqs]

Have I done ok, or is there something wrong with me?  

Obviously there's nothing wrong.  You are still on the right side of the dirt and you are still riding and enjoy it.  Keep it going!

[montmil]

I’m worried about life choices.   ...It’s all been good. Have I done ok, or is there something wrong with me?

Worrying about the past and paths taken can be an exercise in frustration, often leading to depression. The only thing to take from the unchangeable past is lessons learned. That knowledge may then be used to guide today's and tomorrow's choices.

With all respect to your question, I do hope that it's only the rough English weather and a bit of cabin fever that's causing your personal concerns. You have friends here.

Monte

  

[nhmaf]

This is the best of all possible worlds - the one that you find yourself in right now!

I can't over indulge a tendency to rethink actions or choices made long ago - it usually tends to make me sad and miserable thinking that I might be better off today had I done x instead of y, or married Jane instead of dumping her, etc. etc.   But, I might also have ended up going bankrupt, divorced, or dead by now, too!   So, as Monte and Mike point out - as long as you're on the top side of the dirt, have a home of some sort and a motorcycle to ride, things really are pretty good, and it is, in fact, a wonderful life.    

[Barry]

Now I’m 71 and I truck around on an old R65

Seems to me you made some good choices. Anyone who's still riding at 71 is doing OK in my book and you give me a target to aim for. I've got another 15 years yet to match up to your achievement.

We all wish for something better and if and when we get there realise it was all about the journey and not the destination.

[msbuck]

It’s all been good.  

And you're happy riding your R65.  I don't see how it can get any better than this.  I'm always thankful for what I have and where I am.  You can't change the past and it is, in fact, what makes you who you are today.

Rejoice and be glad in it!

[Lucky_Lou]

 [smiley=wall.gif]... sod the ice and snow lower the tyre pressures and go out for a ride the beat of that engine will remind you your alive, worked for me.Just remmember to wash the bike when you get back.
Lou

[trolle]

For many years my parents were responsible for my misery, but now they are both dead and after thinking things through I have concluded that the reason why people deny listening to my lamentations over my spoiled (thanks to the parents, bad bosses and my lack of luck in life in general) life is that they are not worth listening to. And things not worth listening to are best forgotten.

Instead I enjoy the facts that I am able to ride my r65, that my children have good educations and jobs, and that my grandson is thriving and well. The last 62 years haven't been so bad after all and I hope that the next 40 will be even better.

I wish you all a merry Xmas and a happy new year.

greetings from a wintery north with frost and snow

[Barry]

I hope that the next 40 will be even better.

Here's to the next 40 Years  [smiley=beerchug.gif]


Merry Christmas and many happy new years

[Vegasrandall]

if all else fails try the tommy gun.

[Semper Gumby]

Every day I can swing a leg over the seat of my motorcycle is a good day.  In fact I drove home from work in the snow Christmas day and went riding in the snow and wind today in 22'F weather and was happy as a clam on both.

Life is good.

[montmil]

Lots of responses to Constellation in the last five days but no word from our friend. How be you, Constellation?

Monte

[Ed Miller]

I would regret losing the speed twin somewhere along the way.

[Bengt_Phorqs]

Can one of our British brethren go knock on Constellation's door?  

[Dizerens5]

I'm glad nobody seems to think I got it all wrong. Thanks, friends all!
Today Christmas is over, two of my children and three grandchildren (there are others) have gone home after amusing me for a few days, the son-in-law who is ace in the kitchen made us a grand Xmas dinner, my other daughter and grandson in Minnesota sent greetings, now after a month of below-freezing and ice and snow on the ground the thermo is creeping up at last -- couple more degrees and the R65 will roll out again...what more could I want?