is there anything in your past that you regret?

Question

what is it and why do you regret it

Answer 1

I'm sure we all have something we regret doing or saying. I guess the key is learning from these mistakes and not repeating them.

Remember your past made you what you are today and today will be part of your tomorrow.

Answer 2

As you get older and wiser, or more mature, you begin to reminesce about the "good ol' days", and sometimes you like what you recall, and sometimes you don't, and wish you could've done it differently and better. That's where the old phrase, "If I only knew then what I know now" comes from. Also, as you grow older, you go through what is often called "the mid-life crisis", which is an awareness that what you have and who you are is all you're gonna ever have and all you're gonna ever be, to some extent, and almost everyone has regrets to one extent or the other over what they wish they had done better or differently, but didn't, and they imagine what could've been better had they done it the other way. I know one of my regrets is that I didn't study harder in highschool and get better grades and go to the university that I lived so close to, that had and has an excellent academic reputation, as opposed to the "so-so" university I started out in. I would've graduated from a much better university, which carries some clout with it in your professional life whether anyone wants to admit it or not, and I would've been able to stay living at home, which was a fantastic place to be. But, I've dealt with that regret for decades, and although it's still painful at times, it's manageable, and I can take satisfaction at the college degrees I did get, and the careers I did have. Anyone who says they never had or will never have any regrets is someone who hasn't and doesn't want to mature. It's all part of life. One of my careers was that in the field of mental health, and I spent 20+ years in there, and that adds to my understandings now that I'm in my "Mid-life". God Bless you.

Answer 3

There are many things that I regret and it's hard to pick the biggest one. But one regret was getting divorced. I thought that I would be married to this man for the rest of my life. Even though I was the one who sought out the divorce because of domestic violence I still regret that it happened that way and we couldn't work it out. I tried but he wouldn't stop and I had no choice. We were married when I was 16 and him 21. Every one said we would never make it because we were so young but we were married for 19 years. I loved him very much but I couldn't survive anymore in that environment. Still hurts 16 yrs later.
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Answer 4

That I keep taking birth in the material world life after life when this place is a bad bargain. It is full of so much suffering in this material world called Maya (illusion) I am not coming back after this life. I am going to the Supreme eternal spiritual abode where there is no more suffering and no material body that suffers. You can stop this cycle of birth, death, old age, and disease too. Go to harekrishnatemple.c for all details and Read Bhagavad Gita As it is By Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada- You won't regret it. I didn't regret that one bit.

Answer 5

My first marriage is a regret. I feel my ex stole 3 years of my young life, but it was my own fault. The day I married I felt inside myself it was a mistake. I also regret not finishing college.

Answer 6

my greatest regret is and will always be the way i treated my grandmother right before her death. She abused me physically and mentally for years and after I was able to get away from her and return to my mom I decided to confront her about the physical scars I bare, she then told me they were from chicken pox and I told her it wasn't true and that it was her to had ordered her sons to beat me with electrical cord, slam me against walls and so on from the age of 8 to 11. I then proceeded to taunt her about her daughter in-law standing up to her and she cried all night saying that my brother would never have taunted her, it's something I'll always carry with me because she died just a few short months later and I never got to be close to her.
My second one is not getting to know my father because my twisted family had lied to us about him being in new york even though we had lived with him under the same roof all of our lives. I last saw him alive a week after my 8Th birthday as he was fleeing from my uncles and their guns. He died a few months later, begging to see us one last time. He was never buried either so there's not a place I can go put flowers for him. His body was decapitated and dumped at a dumping site where their dump the poor.

Answer 7

It is easy while pondering your lift to regret things..should have been a better parent..should have gotten more education..should have gotten divorced sooner....the trick is to acknowledge you made the best choice you could make at the time with what was happening then.

Answer 8

Life is too short for regrets. The only thing I can honestly say I regret is that I didn't get to say goodbye to either of my parents before they died.

Answer 9

Sure and if someone out there doesn't, then they probably have some kind of mental problem.

My biggest regret was spending all of high school worrying if other people approved of me.

Answer 10

Yes, it is because sometimes I feel I need to relax and feel loved and be in a relationshio where a person can make me feel good about my self. I turned out to be around the wrong friends and people hurted me, and also it's because I was scared of facing my parents who didn't supported me to do what I want. I've chosen the wrong domain.