Ahh, gone forever!!!

[Tony]

I was just thinking about all the things i've lost over the years, some of it wasn't a bother but some of it was a hard loss.

For instance, my UK penknife, lost right by the gate where we have the Moot, it still pains me... Over the years i've lost quite a few knives, mostly through throwing them and loosing them in the underbrush, in the ground or leaf litter, there's also the odd mug or jacket...

What's the thing that you've lost and miss the most?

 

[Wayland]

Time..........

 

[ged]

... What's the thing that you've lost and miss the most?

My parents.

 

[stonyman]

Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most

Not my own quote, think it was Ozzy Osbourne

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[sandbender]

I had a couple of shemaghs that I'd purchased years ago, possibly from the Survival Aids shop at Euston. I'd had my mom stich them together along one side so they could double as a hostel sheet/beach towel/shopping bag etcetera, that was the last bit of sewing my mom did for me.

It was the one constant on my kit list for years and had traveled much of the world.

I managed to drive a snow mobile into a tree up in the Swedish Arctic and was helicoptered out. I think the shemagh was with me in the emergency room but it vanished shortly afterwords.

 

[Tony]

Time..........

Ahh, yes, the one thing that can never be replaced or worked around, it's a very rare person that has no time regrets...

 

[Tony]

I can see this thread showing that it's the emotional attachments that are the strongest...

 

[GGTBod]

My misspent youth, i spent half of it chasing wimmen and partying and the other half i wasted

 

[Man of Tanith]

In no particular order
My grandparents,their love and presence in my life and also the skills and knowledge they had.
My misspent youth. When i see some of the younger folks who post here and on other social media with all their outdoorsy exploits i kick myself that i spent my late teens upto my mid twenties completely off my pickle and wasting oppourtunitues.
Friends who have passed away. Shoulda woulda coulda spent more time with them and didnt.

 

[Tony]

Should have put this in other chatter rather than kit chatter

 

[Globetrotter.uk]

All my savings, over the years seeing kit I don't need. Lol


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[Klenchblaize]

Too painful to answer truthfully so aint gonna.

K

 

[Imagedude]

Regrets, I've got a few...

mostly regretting the opportunities that I lose as I get older...

 

[forrestdweller]

some good friends, my favourite grandmother and my (adopted) daughter MIDGET (=a jindo dog whom i rescued from ending in a soup pot)

 

[John Fenna]

My youthful strength and vigor!
As age creeps up on my I find I am limited in my activities by an uncooperative body!
I used to walk 5m before breakfast with a full pack - now 5m is my days limit - even without a pack: I used to be a Level 4 Canoe Coach - now I cannot sit in a canoe, kneel in a canoe or paddle a canoe thanks to shoulder, knee and SI joint issues - do not even start me thinking about my Martial Arts, caving, climbing and other physical activities!
Anyone want to buy two 15' odd canoes? My gear is up for sale at the moment...
Material objects can be replaced - health and emotional attachments are finite and the things you really miss!
The material item I miss most is my first "real" canoe paddle - lost at sea in a very near fatal accident involving the wake of the Irish Ferry and some rocks ... it had seen some real adventures with me and was almost due a long retirement over my Inglenook beam...

 

[Countryman]

I've lost all my grandparents, my parents and never really had anyone else, lost a couple friends over the years now. Luckily I made my own family and am blessed with friends.

Things wise I lost my Schrade Old Timer on a lunch stop in a field on a 60 mile walk to Chartres. I miss that knife but my kids bought me a Buck Stockman for my 40th that is nearly the same and means a lot to me for their thought.

My Dad bought me an ASI Paratrooper Repeater for my 9th birthday. I shot it every day for about 3 years. My mother handed it in for destruction during a gun amnesty in South Australia. I never forgave her and only a couple of years ago went out of my way to replace it with a mint version to heal that wound. Gave me closure on the issue even if my wife thought I was nuts. "Another gun"

As many above clearly show, stuff can be replaced. You can't take it with you on that last journey.


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[Hoodoo]

No doubt, the greatest losses have been family and friends. Not much in the material way. I lost my first Swiss Army Knife along a trout stream in Pennsylvania back in the 70s. Cleaned the trout and left the knife lying in the pebbles alone the bank. Back then it was a tough loss because money was sparse, but eventually it was replaced.

 

[Tony]

by a hundred others

 

[Nic Le Becheur]

I was just thinking about all the things i've lost over the years, some of it wasn't a bother but some of it was a hard loss.

For instance, my UK penknife, lost right by the gate where we have the Moot, it still pains me... Over the years i've lost quite a few knives, mostly through throwing them and loosing them in the underbrush, in the ground or leaf litter, there's also the odd mug or jacket...

What's the thing that you've lost and miss the most?

A WW1 homemade trench lighter, in copper, with the Toronto Highlanders' cap badge on it - my grandfather's. Lost when our house was burgled some years ago. Irreplaceable :-(

 

[Dave]

My Health.

And the ability to have done some things differently. [Regret]