o·ti·ose

/ˈōSHēˌōs/ adjective

1. Serving no practical purpose or result. 
2. Indolent; idle.

All beauty and truth

You propose to surrender on everyone else's terms.
I propose to surrender on my own terms.
Maybe what I should really be thinking about is not surrendering.

Idiomatic Slippage

Now I wish I had been there.
Şimdi burada olduğumu istiyorum. "Now I want to have been there"

现在想想，真遗憾当时不在场。
Burada olmadığıma biraz üzülüyorum şimdi. "Now my not having been there saddens me a little."

It's funny how the most natural way of translating counterfactual wishes from English into Chinese seems to be to turn them into regrets. Or maybe that tinge of regret was always lying just beneath the surface of "I wish I had"? 

And then of course I have no idea about the idiomatic way of saying such things in Turkish. Both of those sentences might just sound downright strange to a native speaker ...