Any regrets?

@ESKARENA1 (18261)
May 20, 2007 2:52am CST
Simple question really, but it was stimulated by a saying my father left me with. He said always do what your heart desires because we never regret what we do, only what we dont do. Therefore I ask, any regrets?
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
20 May 07
I only have one and that is for being so stupid and marrying the wrong Man years ago but even worse to stick the Marriage out for 21 Years and then taking all my Courage to end it
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
20 May 07
well you did it my friend, you ended it thats great blessed be
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
20 May 07
My only regret is I shut my reproductive organ well in advance before my bilogical clock ticks away. I have two bilogical sons and two adopted girls. Boths sons are doing well in their chosen career while the two daughters are still in school.
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
20 May 07
well, you are blessed indeed to have 4 childrwen, blessed be
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• Philippines
22 May 07
it was really fraustrating after making a year of consistently hitting my target sales quotas, i resigned coz my boss didn't approve my promotion... some of my performance incentives was evn denied since we changed our management...i wish i never workd with them...
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
22 May 07
i can imagine you was as mad as hell too. Why cant employers just pay what you are worth in the first place, then no need for such silly games blessed be
@Phlamingho (7825)
• Denmark
20 May 07
I think your father was a very wise man :-) I don't have any regrets in my life, the reason... Because there's no point in having regrets, you can't change the past anyway, you just have to deal with the choices you've made.
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
20 May 07
this is true, however i think often regret is part of dealing with the consequences of the decisions we make blessed be
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
20 May 07
I regret that I have lived most of my life unhappy. I have always done what other people wanted me to do and not what I wanted to do. I always said yes to everything that people wanted when I really wanted to say no because I was very uncomfortable with the situation I was being placed in. I recently started saying no but I think I have hurt alot of people by doing that, but we all have to do whatever it takes to behappy in this life.
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
22 May 07
i certainly believe for many (usually women) saying no is a very difficult skill to learn, but learn it we must blessed be
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
22 May 07
Yes. I hate to say no because when you do, people think you are so mean and you do not care, but we can only do and takeso much and there has to be a time when we have to say no.
@rb200406 (1824)
• India
21 May 07
I have only one regret till now is that i could not study what i intended to.so afterwards never took my career very seriously.But still i am a happy woman with good family.
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
21 May 07
you are blest indeed, long may you remain as happy as you are blessed be
@sjohnson628 (3197)
• United States
20 May 07
No I have no regrets in my life after all a regret is something we wanted at the time...
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
20 May 07
this is certainly true, there is realy no point blessed be
20 May 07
I have one that ruined my memories of what should have been a great holiday to Norway with my husband (but we were not married then and will have been for 22 years next week). So it must be a big regret to have remembered it for so long. What it amounts to is regreting believing the travel guide that was on the coach tour with us. Probably this is not accepting the responsibility myself. The tour guide said we should swap seats on the coach each day. I was young and naive enough to believe him. Our seats were gone so I sat in some others because I did not want to get coach sick at the back. The other people made a fuss and my boyfriend would not stick by me. It made a bad scene, bad feeling and for some reason I had to apologise. It taints the whole experience with bad memories instead of good. I wish it had never happened. If that is the worst regret of my life it can't be bad. Can it? I should be more positive in my thinking. Perhaps now I have been able to purge it. Thank you for the opportunity.
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
20 May 07
hey, if thats the worst regret, you havent done bad at all well if it helps, purge away blessed be
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
22 May 07
I think it makes more sense to regret the things we haven't done...either regrets in the past of things we should have done or regrets now, because maybe our life isn't going in the direction we'd like it to...In the past whenever I didn't go with my gut instinct to do something..I really fouled up...It's really important then, to listen to one's heart in what one want to do in life
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@JessyBlue (536)
• United States
21 May 07
Your father sounds like a very wise man. I do have some past regrets, but I have them only because I used my head instead of my heart when making decisions...now I know better {lol thank goodness}.
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@archer1811 (1098)
• Philippines
21 May 07
sometimes, when you always follow what you're heart says and suddenly you failed of course there's a regret.. men sometimes should not always follow hearts listen also to your mind, mind and heart must be one and use before doing what ever you want to do. if ever you made mistakes and regret for what you've done at least you learn from it.. when i used my heart once i failed..
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