Regrets

[misery chastain loves co.]

I try to live my life without them but sometimes you can't help but have one or two.
I should probably have more from my party hearty 20's but eh, we'll chalk it up to being young and stupid ( not to mention the fact that I thankfully don't remember most of them )
Anyone have a regret they just can't shake?

 

[king family fan]

I have a couple.Sometimes feel guilty for having these regrets.

 

[Autumn Gust]

What I regret most are the things I didn't do… opportunities I missed because I was too cautious.

 

[blunthead]

I very much regret certain things I've said and done which have directly effected certain people in a negative way. It seems that no matter how "grown up" I get I'm never grown up enough to avoid hurting people.

 

[doowopgirl]

What I regret most are the things I didn't do… opportunities I missed because I was too cautious.

My motto as well. Whats done is done and there is no point worrying about it.

 

[blunthead]

My motto as well. Whats done is done and there is no point worrying about it.

Some mistakes a person can never overcome, maybe. Some are too severe, too mindless.

 

[doowopgirl]

Some mistakes a person can never overcome, maybe. Some are too severe, too mindless.

True enough. But you can't undo them The best thing is to learn from them.

 

[blunthead]

True enough. But you can't undo them The best thing is to learn from them.

True. But, though one can't undo them, one must try to make up for them as much as possible, or else suppress the negative emotions they cause even deeper.

 

[Kurben]

What I regret most are the things I didn't do… opportunities I missed because I was too cautious.

Same here. I still remember the absolutely beautiful venezuelan girl i know in school (i was seventeen years old) and she invited me up to her apartment (she and her parents lived in a rather posh part of stockholm)after a party when her parents where out... We really liked eachother but was both very shy.... And in the end i said no and walked home. Stupid.

 

[blunthead]

What I regret most are the things I didn't do… opportunities I missed because I was too cautious.

Not to be difficult but I think there's no difference between regrets about what we do versus don't. Not doing something is the same as doing something else, see?

 

[GNTLGNT]

...things I've said and done in anger or stupidity that have hurt people special to me...and not finishing school years ago to be a doctor...

 

[skimom2]

Handsome, rich, nice, Thomas Gibson-looking rower, senior to my freshman, offered to walk me home after a crew member's party (I found out later that he'd urged his senior friend to invite me and two other freshman friends-never occurred me that we were the only freshmen there). Perfect night, snow gently falling... and I cried off to make sure my drunk friends got home all right. Watched him walk off into the darkness and never saw the guy again--he apparently got called home for a family emergency the next day. I've always wondered...(and kicked myself for not abandoning the idiot twins--lol). I actually used bits of that memory in my first book

 

[GNTLGNT]

 

[blunthead]

Handsome, rich, nice, Thomas Gibson-looking rower, senior to my freshman, offered to walk me home after a crew member's party (I found out later that he'd urged his senior friend to invite me and two other freshman friends-never occurred me that we were the only freshmen there). Perfect night, snow gently falling... and I cried off to make sure my drunk friends got home all right. Watched him walk off into the darkness and never saw the guy again--he apparently got called home for a family emergency the next day. I've always wondered...(and kicked myself for not abandoning the idiot twins--lol). I actually used bits of that memory in my first book

If this is the actual reason you cried off, then there can be zero regrets, despite hindsight.

 

[ghost19]

Not staying on track in college in my early 20's in college. It's produced a skewed life from my master plan to say the least...

 

[skimom2]

If this is the actual reason you cried off, then there can be zero regrets, despite hindsight.

Yeah, yeah... I'm the caretaker--lol. No real regret (I have a pretty sweet family set up as is ), but I'll always wonder just a little bit. I think he liked me because I ignored him (or at least, I didn't fawn openly).

 

[blunthead]

...things I've said and done in anger or stupidity that have hurt people special to me...and not finishing school years ago to be a doctor...

Just curious, Scott, but might there have been reasonable reasons for your decision about med school?

 

[GNTLGNT]

Just curious, Scott, but might there have been reasonable reasons for your decision about med school?

...nothing reasonable at all Frank, in my pre-med classes-I clashed with a couple of the influential prof's(killed one's fruit fly experiment), was very immature-first time on my own and out from under an overprotective mother, so I drank and drugged myself into a stupor and I fell in love with radio, which sidetracked me for some 3 decades...

 

[blunthead]

...nothing reasonable at all Frank, in my pre-med classes-I clashed with a couple of the influential prof's(killed one's fruit fly experiment), was very immature-first time on my own and out from under an overprotective mother, so I drank and drugged myself into a stupor and I fell in love with radio, which sidetracked me for some 3 decades...

...and you subsequently met the love of your life and had beautiful kids and a home you love, despite yourself... What would you have had had your heart not prevented it?

 

[GNTLGNT]

...and you subsequently met the love of your life and had beautiful kids and a home you love, despite yourself... What would you have had had your heart not prevented it?

...tis true, I love what I have-still, I sometimes wonder...