life regrets

[rubiksolved]

Hey guys,

In the course of my life so far I’ve come across plenty of people with regrets they’ve had in their own lives. And seeing how life is so incredibly short… I just kind of wanted to see what everyone else’s regrets are.

Career-life objectives?
Relationships?
Family?

It would be pretty cool to learn from each other’s *mistakes* or to see what we would do differently at your age. So I guess when you post… it’ll be cool if you posted your age along with your posting.

I know a lot of people out there also try to live without regrets... and even if you do, it'd be helpful to see something you'd change.. rather than regret.

Here’s mine:
I regret not spending enough time to keep in touch and to foster relationships with the significant people in my life. I feel like I’ve been too distracted with the other aspects of life (work and school primarily) that I just kinda lost touch with people I would rather not have lost touch with… I know its not too late.. but I feel like some relationships have deteriorated too much for full repair..
Age:22

 

[Macx]

Being a knight in shining (albeit dented and battered) armor and wasting my time looking for princesses. Almost too late in life discovering that the problem with princesses is they have to be kept once you "get" them. Far better is the Godly woman, the woman who can be loved and cherished & treated as Christ loves His Church than the woman who "deserves" everything and can never experience grace or gift. Princesses are contemptable things. The Proverbs 31 wife is where joy can be found, the flip side of regret is the joy of having made right what once was so terribly wrong in my life. I just wish I hadn't wasted time married to a princess first. I so hope to raise my daughter to be more like her mother and in almost no ways resembling my first wife.

 

[jennyren]

I'm 24.
I regret not asking my mother in law to move in with us when her health started going downhill, she died one year later.

I regret being hateful towards a certain elderly man in front of my daughter.

I regret getting a Student Loan from the government.

I regret the first time I: watched porn, smoked a cigarette, smoked a joint, went to the bar, snorted a line.

I regret all of the horrible things I've allowed myself to see on TV,

I regret not telling someone when i new about a girl who was being bullied, she was murdered a few months later.

I regret not breastfeeding more and longer.

I regret quitting the basketball team in eighth grade because i played so poorly our first game.

I regret not helping my mother around the house when i was a teenager,

I regret trying to grow up so fast, not spending a couple more years playing hide and seek with the neighbour hood kids.

i regret not taking sewing in high school.

I regret not taking cooking in high school ( oh wait I did take the class) I regret missing the day of cooking class where they teach you how to set the timer.

I regret smashing the front screen door the day I locked me and the kids out of the house. ( the spare key was only a phone call away).

I regret the day my mother grounded me from the school dance but I made such a fuss that my father let me go. I ended up in the hospital with alcohol poisoning that night. moms know everything.

I regret not being more of a friend to my brother in high school.

I regret wasting money that my husband risks his life to provide for us.

I regret meeting the worlds expectation of a great multi tasking mother while at the same time failing to provide a stable routine and nurturing environment for my kids.

I regret the last few years of bending over backwords to do everything the "right way" only to realize that is not Gods way.

How can i say i am a Christian and then continue walking in darkness? I've been set free but whenever I face a challenge I look back to see how Egypt would do this and what would Egypt say about that. Why cant I just trust God to have the answer. Egypt is quick to offer a dozen answers to every problem, but God is the still small voice. I must spend more time alone with him and then maybe I will have less regrets for the next 25 years.