I reckon we are here to have as many experiences and as much fun as possible.
Kids or not, both has its advantages/disadvantages... I have mates who I've known for years who haven't got kids and we wind each other up about it all the time. I do the whole "I've got 3 brewer uppers in the making" and my mates just generally laugh as they go off to the pub for the day
I sat on a couch for 6 months in my mid twenties, convinced my head would explode like something out of 'Scanners' (80's film reference again lol) and due to my medical complaint, it was a fair fear. I'd lost the use of my legs at that point, had little or no memory to mull over (can't remember its so long ago lol) and the lack of movement led to a small amount of weight gain (read I ballooned). I couldn't regret anything because I couldn't remember anything to regret, I didn't know I was sad because I didn't really know the difference between sad and happy (sounds weird I know) and being told I would need to either move house or alter my house for a wheel chair made me look around and wonder what life was supposed to be about.
I remember sitting there thinking that life was a little strange. I'd been told I was going to die that many times it had lost all meaning to me... what was the difference between life and death really?
Don't really remember fully how I discovered about people getting injured whilst skiing, but I did and I found their recovery tool... an electronic device that rehabilitated muscles. So I bought it, used it and got my legs moving... something the doctors said wasn't possible. Some exercise and a bit of grunting, my legs worked properly, I was physically okay so I decided... whatever was going to come was going to come. My memory eventually came back... few gaps, but what 40 year old remembers everything from their lives anyway? Doctors said my memory was unlikely to return... wrong again Doc!
Its turned out to be a bumpy decade and a half... wasn't quite ready for the roller coaster if I'm honest, but I have 3 great kids, a wife I adore and a home in a pretty village. Rebooted my career, although I'd like to try something else now, I want a new challenge... but its all a far cry from sitting on that couch and picking out which wheel chair would be the easiest to handle.
Sounds corny this, but I know what sadness feels like now... just refuse to feel it
One life, live it like it matters... and from what I've read on here and the people I've met from here, there is so much more to experience.
Oooh... Forest Gump was right... life is just like a box of chocolates... you never know when you'll get one with alcohol in it
Now... where did I put that gin bottle?