Do you have any regrets?

[Tea Please]

I have two regrets (so far) in my life.

1) not having more children

2.) not moving to London when DH was offered a job there


Anyone else have any regrets?

 

[Mickey76]

My initial reaction is to say yes, I do have regrets. However, I think about the different paths I could have taken and I like where I am right now. My family is great and I have an awesome girlfriend. There are some little things in my life that I wish were different or had gone a different way, but I might not be where I am today.


Mickey76

 

[Maleficent13]

I've made some HUGE mistakes in my life, but they all helped shaped me into who I am today. So I don't think I regret them.

Okay...maybe one of them. The one that's currently being a pain in my $^% by not signing the papers to get my house sold!!!

But that's a whole other thread!!

 

[DoeWDW]

There are mistakes I wish I hadn't made, stupid choices that I would take back if I could, but ALL my experiences have made me who I am today.

I would not change my choice of DH though - he is everything to me and, without a doubt, the BEST decision I ever made!

 

[Stepharoonie!]

Yes. I think everyone does.

 

[WDWLVR]

Do I wish I had taken some different paths over the years? Yes, of course.

Do I regret the choices I've made? Not in the least. They were the right choices for me at that time.

Life's to short to think about regrets. I'd rather focus on today and tomorrow and keep my memories of yesterday the happy ones.

 

[monkeyboy]

Not asking for her hand before she moved


Not taking that job at WDW I was offered


Buying Enron stock

 

[Christine]

Not completing college.

Getting married at 19.

 

[scarlett873]

i had one regret...but that regret has since resolved itself!

my only regret in life was that i let my then ex-boyfriend get away. but 10 years later, he found me and we were able to start over with our lives together. we've been happily married now for about a year and a half!!

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

<font color=navy>I honestly don't have regrets. I'd rather spend my time enjoying what I do have rather than worrying about what I don't have or didn't do.

 

[Microcell]

That I didn't discover WDW earlier in life! I love to see the looks on my kids faces the entire time we are there, but if I knew how much fun I would have too, I would have done some WDW touring before the kids! Don't tell me to go without them, I will save that for when they are out of the house!

Otherwise, no real regrets other than I would not have gotten so frustrated with my mom if I had known she was having motor skill problems and memory problems due to hardening of the arteries. She was 43 so how could I have known? So no regrets really.

 

[chell]

Yes. I know I shouldn't let it eat away at me, but it does. If only someone could invent a time machine.

 

[danacara]

I think that people who say that they have no regrets are deluding themselves, in the kindest possible way. OF COURSE we have regrets if we'd just acknowledge them. When you say you have none, you are letting yourself off the hook for crappy decisions in the past, because they're too painful to face. But hey, I've made a lot of crappy decisions myself.

I regret:
1. Dumping that guy because he had no ambition. Now he's a first year at Harvard Med. I am not kidding.
2. Psyching myself out academically my first year of college. Looking back, I could have done much better.
3. Getting so close to my goal weight, but never losing these last 10 pounds at the age of which I would really enjoy it.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

I have a huge regret regarding my ex-boyfriend and I hope in time that I will have the same opinion as most of you that it was a good choice and it all works out in the end. It's a fairly new regret because it happened only a year ago......I still wish he would come back to find me but I don't think that will happen. After reading Scarlett873 post it still gives me hope but we will see what happens in the future...maybe it was a good thing that happened, I don't know.

 

[Pin Wizard]

My major one is not dating my heart throb in high school that I actually met in 8th grade. Still got it! I see that as the biggest mistake of my life.

I find it interesting that my sister and my dad once had a conversation about this. He told her that the only thing he would have changed about his life was to work less and enjoy life more. Well, there's PLENTY I would change about my life!

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

dana, some people learn how to make peace with bad decisions. they don't regret the decision because, regardless of the outcome, they learned from it and grew from the experience.

 

[caitycaity]

Originally posted by Briar Rose 7457
dana, some people learn how to make peace with bad decisions. they don't regret the decision because, regardless of the outcome, they learned from it and grew from the experience.

if i understand dana correctly, i agree with what she is saying.

everyone has regrets. it's whether or not you let them eat away at you or whether you learn from past mistakes that makes the difference.

i agree with her that i think everyone that's of adult age probably has regrets about something.

 

[airhead]

...I was honest with my home insurance people. Big,big regret.

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

re·gret ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-grt)
v. re·gret·ted, re·gret·ting, re·grets
v. tr.
To feel sorry, disappointed, or distressed about.
To remember with a feeling of loss or sorrow; mourn.


if you come to terms with your mistakes, you don't "regret" them. everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone has regrets about them.

 

[caitycaity]

i don't think that is true, sb. sorry but that's just my opinion.

there are things i have come to terms with, but i'm still sorry about.