What has been the biggest dissapointment of your life?

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I think it was realizing that I am not creative nor will I ever be.

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

also realizing that i cannot spell disappointment

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:47 (twenty-two years ago)

life is just a continuing series of disappointments.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The year I didn't read a single book (and barely remember) because I was too out of it.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 06:48 (twenty-two years ago)

It would be the end of my marriage, after we had been together for 23 years. I had got to thinking that the odds were we'd be together as long as we were both alive, and I loved her very deeply. It all went badly wrong in our final months together, so the actual split was as much relief as disappointment. And to be honest, since then I have a new perspective on it, and a great long relationship seems like a wonderful success with a bad end rather than any kind of failure.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Meeting my dad. I maintained for 24 years that I didn't need my dad in my life as he was a liar and a conman. Then I decided that I had to find out what he was like for myself and discovered that he is actually a liar and a conman.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

still not having a job in the field that i studied 6 years for

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Having 8 years post-university which should have meant that at 30 I am rich and successful, but instead wasting it (to a greater or lesser extent) and changing careers so that I am now a secretary earning well under the average graduate wage.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

1) Not focussing on the creative things that i can do earlier in life. Now I have to spend time I should be making pictures and music doing a shite job I don't like. I'm working hard to make sure this doesn't continue for too much longer tho.

2) The financial services industry.

― hmmm (hmmm), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Trying to be a pop star. Wasting all that time and money and effort when really, i should have been off having a career or something, so I'd be able to afford life in my 30's, rather than scraping through, blah blah blah.

But my band and my album are also perhaps one of the things I'm most proud of having accomplished. So that's a contradiction, innit?

― The River Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

If you're that proud of your album, and still poor, perhaps your greatest disappointment can be other people. For not buying enough copies and catapulting you to a life of stadium tours, guitar-shaped swimming pools and guest appearances on Graham Norton's tv show.

― Canada Briggs (Canada Briggs), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I like your answer so much better. Thanks, Canada!

(actually Thanks, Canada, for being the only country that bought the album and gave me money and a spot on the charts.)

― The River Kate (kate), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

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