Opposite of regret: projects and hobbies you're glad never got past the aspirational stage

Chin up! Whatever you lost, you gained sevenfold by abandoning WWII model kits...

It's a touchy subject among lego enthusiasts but the knockoff lego kits are shockingly good!

As a kid I had a big tub of generic LEGO bricks. They were all different colours, like a zebra. But different colours. Like a zebra. But different colours. Like a

I used to make things without caring about the colours. Houses. Pyramids. Cubes. I only cared about the shape. But then I moved to Vienna to further my education, and suddenly it dawned on me that my LEGO models were an abomination. Because the colours were mixed together. This was shortly after I was turned down by the local art school for the second time despite the fact that the idiot Kubizek was accepted. It dawned on me that the people who sold me this... filth, this knock-off LEGO, they had an ulterior motive. They wanted to make their perversion seem normal.

And so from that day to this I have only ever bought official LEGO products, and in very narrow range of colours.

A couple of times in my life I've decided I should put myself forward for committees, go to meetings, exchange ideas, make new friends and expand my social life. In my early 20s I joined the union at work and about 20 years later became a governor at my kids' primary school. Both times I was bored by the meetings, had nothing to contribute and left as soon as possible at the end rather than hanging around to socialise. I am not that sort of person.

exchanging ideas sounds good. i don't think i actually know too many people who have that many ideas. or they don't tell them to me if they do. maybe i need to tell them an idea to get the ball rolling. but then i remember that i don't really have any ideas either.

I asked for a fishing pole for my birthday once, having had some vague notion of getting into what I perceived was a relaxing and low-stakes hobby. It always looked that way in movies, anyway. Then I realized I don't really like worms, don't own a boat, and don't live very close to a body of water. I still have the fishing pole, but I have never used it.