Regrets - Do you have any?

[Miss Kelly]

I've always wondered if many people have regrets - about their life.

Unfortunately, I do have a few regrets about college.

• I wish I had attended my 'choice' school.
• I wish I had lived on campus, at least for one year.
• I wish I had interviewed for the WDW College Program. (I chickened out!)
• I wish I had worked more while in college (now that I've graduated, I'd rather have experience than perfect grades). (Everywhere I apply wants experience. )

So, How About You? Any Regrets?

 

[dmslush]

I wish I had not been so easily influenced by friends as a teenager. I had a horrible reputation and it mainly stemmed from wanting to be liked.

I wish I had not quit high school (although I have gone back and earned a GED, AA, BS and am now working on my MA).

Those are my main two regrets. As for my life right now, I am happier than I could ever imagine. My other regret was that I had not picked out a better father for DD. But since SO adopted her last month, she now has the best dad in the world.

 

[Sparx]

I don't regret much. Sure, I make mistakes and I do things I shouldn't, but I can't change the past. I can learn and make myself better for it, but my past makes me who I am, and I don't know where I would be if I wanted to change it. Regreting won't change anything, so why waste my time and energy doing so?

jmo.

 

[barkley]

a kinda yes. kinda no thing. i loved performing arts in my youth. my dad detested it. through no effort on my part i was contacted by an internationaly acclaimed acting program to audition for a full ride scholarship program. my dad's position was that if i even went for it he would not cover any college tuition for any program (even if he supported it). i opted not to go for it-figuring the chances of getting selected were slim.

i will always wonder "what if?.

 

[LisaNJ25]

I regret not buying a house approx 6 years ago when the market was very low and I had a good job (and only 1 child). The same houses that were sellign for $130,000 6 years ago are now over $300,000

 

[Caradana]

I regret not seriously considering medical school way back when. Not sure if I would've liked it, honestly, but reproductive endocrinology fascinates me.

 

[MAKmom]

I regret not loosing that last 20lbs of baby fat...the baby is 9 years old now.

 

[BillSears]

Sure I have regrets. But I'm not perfect and sometimes I even learn from my mistakes.

I think I wouldn't change much even if I could. I know that if somehow I could go back in time and change some of the worst things that have happened to me then I wouldn't have my wonderful daughter and I wouldn't be the person I am today.

 

[pearlieq]

I do. I wish I had been more ambitious in my college choice. I could have made it into a top-tier school but instead I chose to take the easy path and go to the mediocre college close to home because they offered a scholarship. However, if I had done this, I never would have met DH.

I wish I hadn't let go of a couple of my friends. I wish I would have tried harder to work it out.

I wish I had played a sport as a kid. It was hard for me to get involved in extra curriculars because I was raised by a single mom and often couldn't get a ride. Still, I think it would have done a lot of good for me and I wish I had tried harder.

Finally, I wish I had tackled my weight problem when I was much younger. I'm tackling it now, but damage has been done that I can't reverse.

 

[pajamommy]

I guess that maybe I didn't understand things differently when I was married.....but, I love my life now, so I don't know if I regret how it turned out? Well, I don't regret it for myself, but I guess for my kids I do.

 

[Planogirl]

I regret many things. I won't go into them though because you can't go back.

 

[msmouse]

I wish I had known then what I know now about raising children. I would never have become my child's "teacher" during his elementary years. I would have gotten a tutor. There were episodes that I will regret the rest of my life. Thankfully, he is a wonderful, sucessful young man now, but I miseed a lot of years of being a Mom.

 

[kilee]

I have no "major" regrets. Mine might sound superficial. I do wish that dh and I had waited to get married a bit longer when we had more money. I would of liked a bit of more formal wedding and a honeymoon. I don't regret getting married though. It's just it's something I can only do once (well w/ dh ) and I wish now it had been alittle different.

 

[PigletsPal]

We all have what if's in our lives. One of mine is how different would my life had been if my Mom hadn't died when I was 9.
I always wished that I would have cont. on to Nursing School but like I always say: If and Buts were Candies and Nuts then everyday would be Christmas!! I also wished that I had traveled more with DH before having children. But now that they are older, I'm taking care of it....

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Yes I do.
My main regrets are about school. I regret I did not understand the whole "Career and College Path" back then. My parents were clueless when it came to life skills (still are, it is sad).

Fortunately I am not making the same mistakes with my daughters. So it is all good in the end.

 

[palmtreegirl]

No, because I firmly believe that everything happens for a reason. If things were different I might not be where I am now and I love my life.

 

[RadioNate]

More than you can possible imagine. Most stem from low self esteem and the poor choices that go with that when you are a teen. If I could go back and repeat ages 11-19 I would likely do everything differently.

 

[jennyl772003]

The biggest life mistake I ever made is the one pivital point in my life that all the good things have hinged on, so I wouldn't change it.

I dated a 21 year old when I was 16. Pretty disgusting in hindsite. When I was 19, I became pregnant with the same loser. My son is one of the best things that ever happened to me though.

Finally broke up with loser, started dating the brother of one of losers friends. New BF worked at a certain place. I needed a job, so I started working in this place also. I eventually fell in love with one of my coworkers at this job, and now we're happily married!

So, yeah, I regret ever being stupid and dating loser, but I wouldn't change a thing!

 

[Shannon G]

As others have said, we all have "what ifs" - I'm in the process of getting a divorce, so I've certainly had those thoughts. But, I can't honestly say I regret it, because I have two beautiful daughters who came from that marriage, so I have to think that, in the end, it was all worth it. My life may not be where I would have predicted it to be right now, but, overall I'm happy, so no, I don't have regrets.

 

[CheshireVal]

I have lots of regrets, but the biggest one is probably being stupid with credit cards when I was in my early 20s. It's a mistake I don't know that I'll ever be able to dig myself out of.