How did it change your outlook or did it?
2007-07-11 16:56:28 · 16 answers · asked by gone 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My biggest regret in my life is not being able to breathe life back into little baby Koury. As I tried with all of my might to get his little heart beating again when I did CPR on him...Tied to that I did not ride up to the hospital with him, because an investigator wanted me to stay behind and answer questions.
It changed me in that I wanted to die for many years after I was unable to revive him. I felt guilt and anguish of unparalleled depths, and I still to this day I feel much regret where I should have been awake, I should have been up sooner...I should have been able to help him, I am his mommy...
My outlook became very bleak for many years, the grief ate me alive for some time. I have learned that no matter what we think, the people we love can be taken at any time. So we should make every moment count, and every moment is precious.
Blessings and love,
Sassy
2007-07-12 00:39:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate to say it but marriage. It makes me miserable. My wife is very antagonistic. I always pictured that after I got married her and I would enhance each other and life would be better than ever. The first year or 2 was great but after that I realized she brought a lot of baggage with her and is incapable at this point of being a loving wife. Just a demanding self-serving one. I cant remember the last time I felt loved by her honestly. I think Satan has a grip on her and despite all the good influences in her life, she always seems to always revert to the darkside.
2007-07-12 00:14:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not answering God's call before I did. Did the regret change my outlook. No, not really. But, my relationship with God certainly has.
2007-07-12 00:00:16 · answer #3 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Another tough question.
That I married my second husband and then divorced him. I never, ever should have married him in the first place.
But I will be honest with you. If I hadn't done this, I'd still be out there looking for "Mr. Right". Now at least my life isn't centered around that sort of thing.
My regret is that I messed this guy's life up, and he didn't deserve it.
2007-07-12 00:09:33 · answer #4 · answered by Esther 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not coming to have a relationship with God sooner in life. yes it changed my life drastically- now i dont wonder were the dead are- do they look after me- Am I going to hell, heaven? What the purpose of life is etc- I have come into an accurate truth of the scriptures now, I now I am freed of many beliefs that stemed from pagan traditions.
2007-07-12 00:01:07 · answer #5 · answered by erica t 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would have to be unforgiveness. When i was 17yrs old one of my uncles disappointed me with some of his choices and his treatment of my younger brother. This uncle is my father's brother and after my father's death he really made an effort to reach out to my brother and I. During my brother's rebellious teenage years this uncle offered to have my brother stay with him to have a fresh start. I was so hopeful for my brother and he made every effort to fit into this uncle's home and be a good nephew.
Not long after, while washing my uncle's wife's car.. he just walked up to my brother and told him that he was taking him back home. This really shattered my brother. He really just needed a father figure in his life and I know that my brother was trying hard.
I called up my uncle and told him that i never wanted to speak to him again .. that by Him doing to my brother he did it to me also. I was very close to this uncle.. and I was like a daughter to him.
This strain in our relationship went on for a few years. I Never forgave him of his callous treatment of my brother and eventually moved from my home land to Canada.
Within one year I learned that my uncle fell off the roof of his house and was hospitalized. Was in a Coma and never woke up. He died at the age of 44.
All the stpidity in me ended that day. Many times a close friend of my uncle's would come to me and tell me.. " sandy.. your uncle loves you.. he wanted me to tell you that.." I would turn up my nose and snidely say that He had a real good way of showing it...
He died when i was 22 yrs old. I am 35 yrs old now and my heart breaks into a million pieces when i think that i threw away all the good years and the good memories with my uncle because I was angry and hurt at his treatment. He could not say why he had to do this to my brother, I don't know if it was his marriage or his wife or what it was.. I just let the heat of rage sentence me to pain that will always be in my heart.
I never even told him i was leaving the country permanently. I never went to the funeral.
Unforgiveness is such a cage. It locks out those that love you and even when they are trying to get you to see that they are sorry or want to reach out .. you are bound by your walls of unforgiveness...
Since then my heart has gotten a death blow. I do not readily hold on to things that turn out to be my own prison. I teach my daughters to be open about what they feel and that inspite of differences of opinions or misinterpretations that not forgiving is never an option. Freedom lies in forgiveness ..freedom to hold someone.. to love that person.. to tell them sorry.. to just get to see them one more time and say this would be beyond wonderful.. I cannot touch this matter without crying like a little girl.. but sometimes the teas help to lance the well of tears that go unchecked for many yaers.
Ty for your question.. It truly helped releave some of the dull ache in my heart once more.
...sandy
2007-07-12 00:46:50 · answer #6 · answered by Broken Alabaster Flask 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A few sins i committed. Strive to forgive myself for I know God has forgiven me, and put more focus on following God's desire for my life.
2007-07-12 00:03:43 · answer #7 · answered by Dennis James 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not accepting Christ sooner than what i did because of what he has done with me in the time of what he did, but I know everything is in his time frame.
2007-07-12 00:26:10 · answer #8 · answered by Fisherofmen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not telling girls I liked them at age 15
2007-07-12 00:00:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not doing better academically, and dismissing schoolwork for fun.
2007-07-12 00:10:38 · answer #10 · answered by pamiekins 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋