Day 28 — What do you regret the most? Not so long ago I would have been able to fill this post with regrets. Regrets for this and regrets for that. Since I have rediscovered my faith and live solely for the present I can honestly say I have no regrets. I no longer live my life where I have to worry about what I should have said or should have done.
I say what I mean, make sure that each and every day I tell the people I love that love them and do my best to show them. That is truly all I can do. I refuse to come to the end of my life and say I regret the things I did or didn’t do. Life is what it is and if I misstep and have to apologize I do.
I live in a small Georgia town that you most likely have never heard of and I LOVE it! My house is more than full as I am a single mother of four & caregiver to my aging mother and uncle. Lover of all things Outlander. Goes to the beat of her own drum woman.
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I on the other hand do have a couple regrets mostly for not speaking up when i feel like i had to
I can’t say I have any regrets. I am pretty out spoken in my feelings, both good and bad. 🙂 I make sure to tell my family I love them everyday. I don’t want to live a life of what if’s, so I just go for it.
I do have one regret that I believe was a very bad decision. I have learned from this decision and I know that I will never make the same bad decision again! Otherwise, I too want to live by faith. This blog post about telling your loved ones that you love them every day is so important. We do not know if we have tomorrow, so being close to loved ones is so important!
In general I don’t have any regrets, however, I do have one that has been bothering my some lately. When I got my education and training, I did not continue to get a higher licensure. Now that I have moved, the higher licensure would have helped me get me a job in TX. Had I known that I might be moving some day and need to transfer my licensure, I would’ve opted for the higher licensure. Now, I cannot help people in my field until I do that, which is potentially costly and will take many internship hours.
Diana C
I wish that I had been more willing to stand up to bullies when I was a child. I was never bullied, but I saw others mistreated. To this day, I wish I had been brave enough to tell the bullies to buzz off.
Not spending enough quality time with my parents before they divorced
The only regrets that I have are related to hobbies that I wish I would have become more skilled in. For example, if I had stuck with my guitar lessons when I was younger or been more disciplined in practicing foreign languages, it would be easier to do those things now.
I regret transferring universities, I’ve realized it was the worst idea ever.
That’s such an easy question for me. I was just discussing this with my daughter. She was trying to decide to go on vacation this year. Getting married soon, she thinks she should not go. But I told her that my biggest regrets were not to do the things I always wanted to do…my bucket list of sorts. And now am sick. Sick enough to be mostly not present with life. So, I would go back to get a 4 year degree, go on that hot air balloon, scuba dive in the tropics, make sure I got to Hawaii, see the sights of the US, and not worry so much about what other people thought of me…trying to be too perfect in my youth. In a nutshell, not wait for the time to be right, til’ we got the “right” house, til’ we are completely financially secure, til’ the kids are more grown, til ‘ spring or summer or fall or winter to come around again. In the words of NIKE, Just DO it!
I do NOT regret having my kids or the time I spent putting them first though. If anything I regret not spending more time just having FUN with them and put the seriousness of life aside.
Yeah, I have regrets, but mostly for SOME of the people I have chosen to make a part of my life. If they had not been a choice, then my life and my family’s would be better right now.
When asked directly about regrets, I can think of dozens! The thing is to go ahead, to *not* get into that kind of thinking. How different would any of our choices be if we could just see into the future? That is the thing that is missing when we get too hard on ourselves about the choices we make—of *course* we would have (or not) done something if we had only known!
Regrets….I do have one, It’s hard to shake. I was unfaithful to my husband at the beginning of our relationship. I wont make excuses or anything, he has forgiven me for it and has moved forward. I still haven’t forgiven myself… It bothers me every day to know I was SO stupid!
I do regret one decision I made back in 2009 that year my life changed completely and I do regret for making that bad decision and now I feel that I am paying the consequences. I know that I cannot go back and fix things but I do wish and hope with all my heart that person forgives me for letting him down.
I try to remind myself that I’ve only got this life to live. It’s not too late to do anything. You just have to do it to overcome that fear, but sometimes, it’s really scary. I’m a person who calculate, examine and contemplate the what-ifs.