regrets

victory

babymoo wrote: »

I've made a lot of mistakes in my years but regrets? None. I've learnt from every mistake I've made and how can you regret life's lessons?

Regretting is just useless energy, learn from it, move on and make the best of what you actually do have.

Wholeheartedly agree:D

dark^knight

No regrets, they don't work. No regrets now, they only hurt.

System

Not seeing my nan and saying goodbye before she died. 5 years on and i still regret it.

Lotus-eater

Lots, but none lasting.

I wish I'd not started smoking weed, so I never got started with nicotine. But in the same way if I hadn't moved where the weed was, I'd have never connected to my OH.
I wish I'd never listened to my mate about certain stocks and shares, lost a small fortune, but learnt my lesson there.

If I hadn't done certain stuff, it would be far worse.

claire16c

Pee wrote: »

I regret not going travelling before I started work. It would be too detrimental to my career to go for a year now, so I won't get to go unless I am fit and healty when I retire at 78 or whatever the age will be then. I'm not sure I would have had the career I have had if I had taken a year out, though, so it's hard to really regret it.

Is there really no way at all you could do it now? I did it last year, and it was the best thing Ive done. It was after 4 years of work after uni, so not totally before starting work, but not before retirement either My friend did the same, and she came back and got a job with a 10k payrise, and Im hoping to get a better paid one now too, so you never know??

One small regret - selling my shares when they crashed after Sept 11. It wasnt a huge amount but I sold them to go on a gap year after school and never ended up spending the money as used earnings from a job instead. I could buy a car with it now or put towards a house deposit. Oh well!

I dont really have anything major. I always try to look ahead and wonder what I would regret, so that I dont not do whatever it is!

vesper

I regret not asking for help with a job I had. Not asking led to me unfairly losing my job, which meant in the way I lost it, I could't get another, meaning no income. So I lost my house and ended up losing everything I owned,and living in my car for 2 months in the freezing cold. Which led me to have a miscarriage.
But without that experience it wouldn't make me the person I am now, stronger and more determined than ever.

BitterAndTwisted

Je ne regrette rein. Well, almost nothing. I do regret the bad things that happened to me in my life, the things that I had no control over. But that's not proper regret. I am the person I am despite adversity and it has left me stronger, sane and whole. *shakes fist at sky* But the things I had choices about? No, never. Don't look back, only forward.

Kaz2904

I wonder this from time to time and can't think of anything really. Until I read Lotuseater's post about nicotine. Yeah, I regret starting smoking. Hopefully one day, I will eventually kick the evil weed. Otherwise no. Not really. I have plenty of cringeworthy moments in my past but all of my past mistakes have made me who I am now.

Interestingly enough, I asked DH. His reply "marrying you" :eek: He withdrew that pdq. He said he's had the same conversation with his friend from school who asked if he would "do it all again" to which he replied "yes" and his friend said "but you wouldn't have the kids...." and DH said "yes I would, if I did it all agian". So I think DH meant he would do the same again and his friend meant would you like the chance to start over knowing what you do now.

Still not happy about his reply of "marrying you" as his biggest regret though, cheeky devil.

Hagar_uk

treeca wrote: »

What's your biggest regret in life?
Mine is getting into a relationship with a man who is a heavy smoker who is now suffering from a lung complaint

I regret on my last relationship, putting work first and neglecting my GF, and son by being away so much, by the time I realised what was happening, it was too late. I had the best thing in the world and threw it away, it haunts me now and the job I put first for so long, I no longer care about

nonnatus

I try hard not to have any regrets, I believe they are a wasted and negative emotion that make people look back too aften and attribute too many bad things to the past. I'm also a great subscriber to the "ecerything happens for a reason" thing and that even bad stuff is given to us to put good stuff into perspective.

Despite all that though, I'm still human! I did an awful thing, financially, 20 years ago and often wonder if, when all else in my life is going well but money is just a CONSTANT trouble, whether it's Karma biting my bum. My conscience always squeaks at me during the financial hardships "Well, If you'd never done XXX in 1990, things could be different - see how YOU like it!"

Phew. I realise I haven't exactly revealed the transgression, but that's as close as I've ever come to telling anybody how horrid I was