1. I didn't take advantage of those Dominic Dillenger top-notch used car deals!

I've mastered 1, 2, 3, & 5 😄

“I wish I went to that orgy”

6. I wish I'd never been born.

I regret not being born rich, got everything else. Haha. /moneybuysmorethanhappiness /fuckcapitalism

When one of my coworkers was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, his first words were, "Damn, I wish I had drank more beer."

Maybe how you dies matters but I wasn’t thinking about anything when I had my NDE like I’m busy dying I don’t have thoughts

They missed out "I wish I spent more time arguing online with strangers"

Sounds like I should be skipping work to have more gay sex

Making a bold prediction here: in 30-40 years' time, one of those will be replaced with something to the effect of "Waste less time on the internet"

I've noticed this with videogames, and tbh I'm kinda surprised more people haven't connected it to there yet. Videogames can be a hobby, but if it's all someone does at home for mental stimulation, I don't forecast it's living to the fullest. When going through a new experience, it can be memorable, yet the grind-heavy nature of most modern games doesn't produce much for memorable moments, and often is forgotten in a month's time save for the knowledge of how much time was spent on that.

Social media is rather similar, in that it mirrors the addictive nature of locking your attention and supplying unmemorable mental stimulation, at the cost of substantial time.

In my completely nonbiased and objective opinion that's factual in every way: This is not healthy. I dont feel anyone will look back and say, "I wish I spent more time getting upvotes," or "I wish I got that cool skin in the game I dont play anymore."

You should aim to have these regrets because it's the people who lived long enough to be interviewed on their death bed that have them. The people who died suddenly probably have regrets like "I wish I hadn't been texting while driving."

Notice who's in the sample: people who had enough to afford end-of-life care and was open enough for a stranger to sit by the bed and listen. That's mostly the middle class, privileged compared to those who die with nobody asking them anything. But read regret #2 again. These are people who worked their whole lives producing someone else's income, with better rights than a servant but the same basic position. At the very end, they see it, when they don’t have to work for somebody else anymore! Above them, the wealthy die in private settings, with staff under confidentiality agreements. Ware couldn't have gotten near them, and their nurses couldn't have talked even if she had. Below the middle class, nobody has the time for retrospection. So this isn't the regret of the dying. It's the regret of the people who were allowed to be asked and had education and money to talk to someone.

Well I'm at the halfway point of my life and only the last two apply to me, so I guess I'm doing better than I thought. Yay for me, I suppose? IDK I'm still broke and miserable like the rest of the working class, which is why #1 doesn't count. That one is completely out of my control so long as we have billionaires.