Or was Darkness just blowing smoke?
Jean-Claude Van Damme had a good line.
He said that when he was 10 years old he decided that he wanted to be a world famous martial arts actor. Now he’s a 50 year old man living a child’s dream.
And therefore… this is an example of the dreams of youth definitely not being the regrets of maturity.
The memories of a man in his old age
Are the deeds of a man in his prime
Free Four, Pink Floyd
I dig pink Floyd deeply.
Presently listening to obscured by clouds a lot
After going through just life, Im don’t even question myself that. I’m like dude, your survived . Period .
Darkness speaks in twisted truths because he’s a manipulator by nature. It’s not subtle.
I figure he’s just a smart guy with a radically alien perspective. There’s still some useful overlap, surely.
I discovered in my midlife that I had a lot of potential careers I’d be good at, which was completely different than the careers I wanted as a kid.
I really wanted to be an astronaut, and my dad was actually in the space program during and after the Apollo program. But my field independence sucks and I’m prone to motion sickness, so no space travel for me.
On the other hand, I’m awesome at research and connecting seemingly unrelated facts, so I could have been a brilliant CIA analyst. I suck at languages, though, which is a requirement for entry.
I assume that every decision I make I’ll regret for what could have been and embrace for what has become. And that’s only the small part of the future I get to decide.
