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    If I had my life to live over

    I read this years before I started modern jive. I think of it often when making choices. It's a bit cheesy but you can't help considering the message behind it. The message I got was 'go to more dances'.


    If I Had My Life to Live Over

    Interviews with the elderly and the terminally ill do not report that people have regret for the things they have done but rather people talk about the things they regret not having done:

    I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
    I'd relax, I would limber up.
    I would be sillier than I have been this trip.
    I would take fewer things seriously.
    I would take more chances.
    I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers.
    I would eat more ice cream and less beans.
    I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.
    You see, I'm one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day.
    Oh, I've had my moments and if I had it to do over again, I'd have more of them.
    In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments.
    One after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
    I've been one of those people who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat, and a parachute.
    It I had to do it again, I would travel lighter next time.
    If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.
    I would go to more dances.
    I would ride more merry-go-rounds.
    I would pick more daisies.

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    Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Andy McGregor
    I read this years before I started modern jive. I think of it often when making choices. It's a bit cheesy but you can't help considering the message behind it. The message I got was 'go to more dances'.

    If I Had My Life to Live Over

    ...I'd try to have nothing else [moments]. Just moments.
    One after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
    I'll drink to that

    Nothing wrong with a bit of cheese mate

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    Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Andy McGregor
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    If I Had My Life to Live Over

    I would start partner dancing twenty years earlier!!! I would worry less about what people think of me I would have persevered with my brace I would tell a few men to get lost a bit sooner BUT
    I would do most of it all over again and I have today to live

    Hurray!
    The present is called just that because that's what it is...a present for you - make the most of it...
    Well Boomer said there's nothing wrong with being cheesy

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    Re: Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Forte

    The present is called just that because that's what it is...a present for you - make the most of it...
    Well Boomer said there's nothing wrong with being cheesy
    Phroar.. I said 'a bit of cheese' that's positivly gorgonzola (however the hell it's spelt )

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    Re: Re: Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Boomer
    Phroar.. I said 'a bit of cheese' that's positivly gorgonzola (however the hell it's spelt )

    eeek! eeeK! mousey noises!

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    Re: Re: Re: Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Forte
    eeek! eeeK! mousey noises!
    Ouch, you madam have just been declared morally bankrupt for that ‘joke’. You need to balance that deficit off! Hope you’ve paid gerbil.

    [opps, going off thread, sorry Andy ]

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    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Boomer
    Ouch, you madam have just been declared morally bankrupt for that ‘joke’. You need to balance that deficit off! Hope you’ve paid gerbil.

    [opps, going off thread, sorry Andy ]
    Are you sorry you sanctioned the cheese yet? ...

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    Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Andy McGregor
    I would pick more daisies.


    Oh go on then, pick me. I like to make men happy.

    Daisy

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    Re: Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Daisy Chain


    Oh go on then, pick me. I like to make men happy.

    Daisy
    Daisy Chain, you sound like the woman ALL us guys have been looking for...

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    Re: Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Forte
    I would worry less about what people think of me
    It was once suggested to me that what other people think/thought of me was none of my business.

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    Re: Re: Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Aleks
    It was once suggested to me that what other people think/thought of me was none of my business.
    Yeas! Wish I had thought that too! Thanks.
    P.S. I do now and life is much more fun!

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    Re: Re: Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Andy McGregor
    Daisy Chain, you sound like the woman ALL us guys have been looking for...
    might be easier to find her if she put her location in her profile

    grant

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    Re: Re: Re: Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Grant
    might be easier to find her if she put her location in her profile
    I found her last night, but she was too busy being picked by other fellahs!

    Greg

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    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Sheepman
    I found her last night, but she was too busy being picked by other fellahs!

    Greg

    there will be nothing left of the poor girl by the time the rest of us find her

    grant

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    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Grant

    there will be nothing left of the poor girl by the time the rest of us find her

    grant
    ..she loves me, she loves me not, she loves me...

    I think by the time I find her she'll have been de-flowered - or at least lost most of her pollen

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    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Andy McGregor
    ..she loves me, she loves me not, she loves me...

    I think by the time I find her she'll have been de-flowered - or at least lost most of her pollen
    What are you men like!!!

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    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Andy McGregor
    ..she loves me, she loves me not, she loves me...

    I think by the time I find her she'll have been de-flowered - or at least lost most of her pollen
    do you want to be stigma-tised?

    grant

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    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Grant
    do you want to be stigma-tised?

    grant
    Hey! That was quite good

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    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Boomer
    Hey! That was quite good
    I beg to differ

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    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: If I had my life to live over

    Originally posted by Dreadful Scathe
    I beg to differ
    I'm not hard to please 'The Water-Margin', now that brings back some memories

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