You sometimes here people say, "If I had it to do all over again..."?

Question

Why do you think people say these things?

I am sorry, I meant to write,...sometimes you Hear People.. but hey..maybe the 'Here' will get a better response! My Bad. I meant, Sometimes you 'hear' people say......

Answer 1

because they carry regret.
i truly believe, if you learn from...the moment..
no matter the outcome, or experience...if you truly learned...

then it had worth....so let go and move on....
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.
—Theodore Roosevelt

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1856

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
—Josh Billings


and i wouldn't care how you spell he-are....;D

Answer 2

Usually out of regret or as a defense mechanism to make themselves feel better about some personal shortcoming.

Answer 3

Counterfactual reasoning. They like to imagine how it could have been without all the pain that they incurred getting here.

Answer 4

Some of them want to experience everything they had, some - just want to make things differently then they had.

Answer 5

they wish they COULD do it over again. They think they would do something different about it..but there is no changing fate.

Answer 6

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Go Against The Flow!

Answer 7

dunno