Comments by "" (@NinjaKittyBonks) on "My Chat with Lawyer and YouTube Sensation Viva Frei (THE SAAD TRUTH_ 1366)" video.

  1. Wonderful conversation and the subject of "regret" is a fascinating one, because I most certainly have some of those (57 back in Sept.) I will share one that, to this day, literally 40 years ago, was something I said to someone that was 100% out of my normal character, but for the life of me, I cannot understand why I did :(. . Was a Saturday evening and going out to meet my buddies to hangout, drink some beers, smoke some pot and listen to music. I had stopped at a liquor store for something and there was a younger girl sitting on the curb. She was probably 15 and I was I guess 17 or so. Anyway, she was clearly very upset about something and may have even been crying. When I look back, what I SHOULD have done, was take a moment, sit down and give her the opportunity to voice what was bothering her. She was not threatened by me or anything and I really feel, had I taken the time, I really had the sense that she might be able to lighten the burden she was feeling and talk. I could have spent any amount of time necessary, if she requested or needed it... but I did not do that. Instead, I looked down at her sitting on the curb, clearly very sad and seemingly feeling very alone... I said...."The answer is at the bottom" and walked away. . Of course, I was referring to the old adage of the answer not being in the bottom of a whiskey bottle and who knows... she may have not even understood the reference. However, no doubt she took it as a slight or very unkind thing to say, which indeed it VERY much was. To this day, some 40 or so years later, I regret having handled this encounter in this way. This one chance meeting has stuck with me for all these years and, as I regretted this failure of my part within 10 minutes after I had driven away, I have NEVER forgotten how I felt for having responded in that manner. I don't beat myself up over it daily or anything, but I certainly think about it and one of those moments when I regret not having been a better version of me at the time :(
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  2. ​ @georginatalamo2451  ... Thank you, this is kind of you to say and is probably true or at least I would like to believe so :) Such thinking is much like what one does with a VERY close call, like stopping your car JUST before hitting another or swerving around to narrowly avoid a collision. Those moments get frozen in our minds and, if not obsessive, we avoid dwelling on what might have been and learn to foresee the signs we ignored last time. However, we all have such instances when although avoided the accident, the "OMG, what if I was going just a little bit faster" or "had I looked up just a second or two later, after picking up the item dropped on the floor of the car, that would have been disastrous" can be terrifying to consider :( . I think we can be a bit hard on ourselves, as the reason we looked that second sooner or WASN'T going faster, is because last time and did better this day. I have heard many times that it is the negative consequences of which we are most likely to learn and NOT having that collision can be very damaging in and of itself.
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