On the other hand, I may not have been as driven to succeed in my life if they had been more involved and spoiled me. Who knows. I don’t favor giving them credit they don’t deserve though.
You may be surprised at some of the mediocre minds who earn degrees. I don’t intend this as a comment on you, just that genius isn’t all that common in college either, unless you’re a physics major. Those eggheads are unbelievable. ;)
My father is a surgeon and he isn't all that smart. He got in to medical school because his uncle was on the admissions review board and went through on the Army Special Training Program during WWII. He must have good technical skills but can be illogical and is barely literate.
I don't know what decisions would have to do with it since they are always there for us to make and we can decide tomorrow. But I think I would like to have been smarter in terms of intellectual understanding. There are a lot of philosophical concepts I can't "get" at all and I think it would be nice to be able to grasp them.
This is a tough one, Stu. Love is irrational enough without deities and inert ideologies in play. Dissimilar beliefs have caused many a misery, depending of course on how much emphasis we put on such positions. I hope regret hasn’t choked your path to a happy life.