Looking on the bright side

"You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself."

I found myself thinking about what I haven't done, and what it might be too late for me to do, yesterday. I never jumped in my parents' car and drove it down the motorway at 80mph when I was 15, I never skipped school to take mushrooms in the park, I never stayed up all night writing an essay that I'd forgotten about, I never ran in a student election, I never... and so on really.

The quote above is from a book I could quote forever, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - specifically the fifth one, which was never very happy, but had a nice bit about sandwiches. I've done things, and seen things, and I know things. They're not what anyone else knows or sees, and instead of jealousy or regret at not experiencing what others experience myself, I should be taking joy in their descriptions of those things, and sharing my experiences in return.

Yesterday I spent a full hour frying bacon and chopping it up with scissors. By the end of it, I was sticky and unpleasant, and smelt strongly of that orange/brown stuff that cakes onto the pan when you fry bacon too much. What have you done that no-one in their right mind would want to do?