Have you ever messed up your life?

[MikeE30325i]

Regardless of this thread I think this is a great idea. It would keep you from reproducing.

I like this idea. i can just bang all the women i want, and not have to worry about the consequences.

and if she cheats on me, i will crush her.

[Jscotty]

jscotty, how old are you?

I am in my mid 30's. So I still have another 30 years to keep screwing up before I end up with a job at Walmart handing out happy face stickers at the front door.

[TwoJ's]

Well, if I could go back to being 17 again, things would be different. Before and during my senior year in high school, I got wasted drunk all of the time. Before class, every weekend etc. I wasted a lot of money on pot and booze.

But aside from the wasting money, I wish I hadn't blacked out and driven my car on 9-11-04. I was tanked as fuck, passed out and my explorer headed straight in to a telephone pole at ~45mph. I woke up with my car sideways in a 6 foot ditch, filling with water, airbag in my lap, a telephone pole on top of my car and I didn't know what the fuck happened or where I was.

I thought I was on the road to my girlfriends house, so I began looking in the ditch and around the car for her (she wasn't with me thank god). I lost my shoes and somehow my shirt in the ditch, and I was just standing in the road staring at my wrecked car when teh police came. I got arrested, booked and blew a .19 and .20 at the police station. Needless to say, that was an awkward ride home with my mother.

I dipped in to my savings to get a lawyer and because I was next to the car (and not in the drivers seat) I got off with 2 years probation and reckless driving. I made the mistake of having liability on a $9000 dollar explorer, and I sold that thing for $600. so 9 grand lost on the car, 4 grand to attorney, 1500 to court fees and classes i had to take, and another 7 thousand for my replacement vehicle. My two year probation ended about a week ago, and I'll lose my license for 30 days.

To this day, I feel extremely lucky that my car went off the road instead of in to a van full of kids or something. Drunk driving is fucked, and I'll never do it again.

[Digitalwave]

and if she cheats on me, i will crush her.

With those massive biceps of yours, I wouldn't doubt it.

I can't say as though I have any big regrets in life. There are small things here and there that I might have done differently, but nothing plagues me.

[MikeE30325i]

With those massive biceps of yours, I wouldn't doubt it.

let me rephrase that.

if she cheat on me, i will have my buddy 'Ironman 2008' crush her.

[Nick]

I've gotta say I'm pretty happy with the way my life's turning out.

I have only a few regrets...the formost being that I wasted time on some 'friends' who ended up wasting a shitload of my time and even more money.

Otherwise, I'm not in debt, I've got a beautiful girl, awesome friends, I'm happy, I've got nice cars, plenty of money, and I've got something in the works that, if it goes through, will land me and the woman in Florida, basking in the sun for the rest of my days, by the end of March.

Luck and having your head screwed on straight is all it takes.

[Simon S]

Have you ever messed up your life?

yes. - you are not alone

[euroshark]

Meh, I did bad in high school and my first year and a half of college... Other than that, I'm alright. I live at home, but it works great. My parents need help paying the rent (mom had a bad couple years, alcoholism, almost died, lost her job... my dad lost his too, and they lost the house.)

I'm still going to school and doing much better, and this fall I have basic training and AIT to look forward to (lol). I'm going to AIT for journalism, and after that I plan on hopefully getting a full time job with a unit (Im in the guard so full time is optional).

My second girl friend kicks ass btw :pimp: No regrets there, she's awesome. I can't believe Ive dated her for 4 years...

[MikeE30325i]

Meh, I did bad in high school and my first year and a half of college... Other than that, I'm alright. I live at home, but it works great. My parents need help paying the rent (mom had a bad couple years, alcoholism, almost died, lost her job... my dad lost his too, and they lost the house.)

I'm still going to school and doing much better, and this fall I have basic training and AIT to look forward to (lol). I'm going to AIT for journalism, and after that I plan on hopefully getting a full time job with a unit (Im in the guard so full time is optional).

My second girl friend kicks ass btw :pimp: No regrets there, she's awesome. I can't believe Ive dated her for 4 years...

she still hasnt woken up and realized who she is with?!?!?! damn she must be dense.









*jp man, lol*

[euroshark]

You know I'm just waiting for her to slip up so I can have an excuse to move in with you, Mike

[aaron.j]

quitr hbeigbn a fuckign bitch

[MikeE30325i]

You know I'm just waiting for her to slip up so I can have an excuse to move in with you, Mike

well at least after four years, i know you have to be getting something. she let you hold her hand yet? thats the trickiest part.





;)

[MikeE30325i]

quitr hbeigbn a fuckign bitch

man, you really cant spell for shit. i had to type that into www.dumbasstranslator.com to even understand that. congrats.

[BigD]

man, you really cant spell for shit. i had to type that into www.dumbasstranslator.com to even understand that. congrats.

Did I just get owned by clicking that link?

Anyway, I don't wish to relive anything because I'm doing fine and I had a lot of fun fucking up. The biggest one was buying an M5 for 20 grand that had clear accident repair but it was Mauritius Blue on Dove Grey, I had to have it. I was looking for reasons to back out but it was not going to be of my free will. I applied for credit and to my dismay I got the loan. I was entering my last year in University for Computer Science and to this point I was getting away with idiocy because I made a ton of money through the coop program (school 4 months/work 4 months) but there is no coop term in the final year. So I pissed away all my money on the car, got the loan, had nothing left for tuition (I got lucky and my university gave me a bursary to cover my final year, I still don't know how). A week later the harmonic balancer came loose, and it turned out that it had come loose before and was glued on with silicone so it would pass mustard to be sold. Then a month later the dying oil pump made the chain slack enough to skip teeth. Busted all 24 valves and broke 2 pistons. I got a 4500 visa and 10k credit line. Did a full rebuild with 95mm JE pistons (Trent remembers this), everything but the block, head and cams was new, and basically every upgrade I could think of. Lightweight fly, all new sensors and stuff, Sparco Evo seats etc. All said and done I drained all of that credit into the car.

Then after finishing my last term, I went to Europe for a few months where I met my fiancee but I also stopped paying bills for that time. I came back and my $4500 visa was closed, and my $5000 visa went into collections, who promptly told me I had 24 hrs to pay the money. My boss loaned me the cash. I moved out to Vancouver, sold the M5 in Toronto for 18 grand, paid off all my debt, except I still have around 4 grand left on the loan I initially got for the car, that will be done this year. Now I have it pretty sweet here. I look back and wonder if I would have done it differently if I had a 2nd chance... and no, I don't think I would have. I can't describe how good it felt to own that M5. I honestly don't think I would be more thrilled if I got a brand new Enzo for free right now, than the day I drove off in my M5 off the lot. The subsequent suffering is the entry price for the memory of those feelings. I think that's how you guys should approach your regrets too, be it debt or school failure or women problems. At some point, they were the cause of some of the greatest joy in your life. What happened after is the price you have to pay. Some people pay the price gradually over their life and then enjoy the rewards later on, when they don't really even give a shit (I'm not going to care about owning a supercar when I'm 40 the way I cared about owning an M5 at 21).

I don't agree that a mistake is a mistake only if you don't learn from it. If the guy was trapped in his Explorer as it filled with water, the fact that he learned from the mistake wouldn't have made him any less dead. A mistake is a mistake. People fuck up but what makes you a man is owning up to it. No one else was to blame, you're not going to get a chance to relive it, so face the fact that you did it, and enjoy the fact that tomorrow you're going to wake up and it will be another day when you will live a life richer with memories, and you will have the chance to do better and to teach others (maybe even your kids? what can a parent possibly have to teach their kids if they haven't lived through the shit some of us have?).

I know some guys don't like corny shit but I love how Stallone put it in the latest Rocky about life - "It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!"

[euroshark]

Fuckin A!

And I want an M5.