Giving into peer pressure and not being true to myself it robbed me of many years of my life I will never be able to get back. I have learned that my life is what I make of it and not what others think how I should live my life, I have learned that above all else I must be true to my gut feelings and instincts for my choices I make and how I live..
Great answer! It can be so hard to understand these things when we are younger and think it's important to be like everybody else. I congratulate you on what you have learned. Sometimes the only way to learn something is by making mistakes.
The thing that I most regret is also the most unregretable thing. I had premarital and unprotected sex. She got pregnant (of course) and I married her. I am now divorced and realize she just wanted a father for the child. She wanted and got the divorce.
The reason it is so unregretable is that I have 3 wonderful kids that I would do anything for. I love them and they return the love.
I regret letting my children go live with there Father when they were younger. My middle son says I am died to him and my daughter has many issues that she can not over come , however we are very close.NOW!!
My oldest son has gotten himself into trouble and is now in prison. Very tough to overcome this. I feel somehow responsible.
I too regret having premarital and unprotected sex. I was pressured into marriage and now am heading for a divorce for a marriage that never should have happened. I was young (early twenties) and had suffered great losses in my family- someone should have slapped me into good sense. I love my children and cannot regret them although I do regret that they were born into such a situation. I get angry at myself for bringing them into a world where they have to deal with divorce.
I also regret not having the guts to tell my best friend that I had feelings for him. I made myself believe that it would be better to make sure I did not hurt him by keeping the relationship platonic. I now realize we could have had a wonderful life together if I had just taken a chance. I have never met a person as wonderful as he is and I am amazed at the person he has grown into. If I ever have the opportunity, I will tell him how foolish I was.
That guy, Ed Bryan. He was such a loser... " BUT I LUV HIM!!!" So stupid, Thank God- " He ain't my baby daddy!!" I don't have children because of that guy. He's living proof that you shouldn't sleep with the locals!!!
I regret not being mindful of the preciousness in every moment of my children's 'ordinary' moments as little ones. It feels like I missed really relishing so many of them, esp. When I look at a family video or back at pictures. When the time is gone, it can never be recovered. It has made me more aware of being truly present in the moment for them and for others I love.
I did something that laid the blame on a friend. I had to tell her what I did or I would not have been able to live with myself. She never held it against me, but I have always regretted what I did. It's the only thing I've ever been ashamed of.
The disobedience of my parents is the regretful thing in my life. Parents are most of the times at right stance. We, with our little knowledge, don't get their point. I regret that I shouldn't act like the way I did at that time. Now I try to obey everything they say. I respect them and want to care them as much as I can for the rest of my life.
I regret taking my mom for granted over the years and figuring she would always be there whenever I wanted to call her or visit her (on my terms). Then she passed away and I wished I would have called her more, visited her more, and just been there for her when SHE needed me.