What's your greatest regret in life?

@subha12 (18441)
India
June 15, 2007 8:14pm CST
Just want to know what is your greatest regret in life? is it something related to life, or career or anything else. I know at different point of time you feel different aspects in life. Still what is your greatest regret? As for me, that i have only done Engineering and joined a job. I could have done MBA to make good advance in career. Please share with me.
8 responses
@unishwetabh (1031)
• India
8 Aug 07
Well i have a regret in my life and i say that its the biggest for me till now in my life. I had one friend (girl) in my life who looked so sweet and cute.......well she is actually sweet and cute now also......we went to study together and our families knew each other and we were good friends. The problem was that she wanted to get along with me.....i mean she wanted to make some good relationship with me but i never saw us that way........i dont know what was there in my mind at that time but i said no to her. And today i see her with some other guy and it really hurts. I just lost her. Now we are just friends.
• India
3 Jul 07
I really don’t know. Maybe the greatest regret of my life is being born as I am. I would have loved to be born someone else, someone more luckier than myself. Having said this, it would be unfair to blame my destiny for bestowing upon me my share of good luck. When I see girls half my age, with MBA degree, earning double of what I do, I regret not having studied further after graduation. When I see school and college teachers spending vacations with their kids, I regret not pursuing M.Sc even after getting an opportunity. When people around me drop names of reputed colleges and institutions where they studied, I regret not getting a chance in the famous colleges of Calcutta. But then I think of meeting my husband in the college where we both studied and I think I would have regretted not meeting him more than anything else. Then I think of our son and I believe that I would have regretted not marrying my husband more than anything else. When I see women having high-flying career, I regret being stuck as a secretary. But again I am grateful that I have a fixed time of returning home in the evening and helping my son with his homework. So again I tell myself that given a chance, I would not like to change the basic fulfillments of my life for anything else.
• India
17 Jun 07
My greatest regret in life was to fall in love at a young age and then ignore my studies altogether.Although the relationship was amazing andwere the best days of my life,careerwise I lost three academic years of my life as a result whic is too much.So career-wise that was a regret or else it was a beautiful feeling!!!!!
@aissha (2036)
• India
18 Jun 07
i'm still young and working not professionally but at home for my family i hv all hopes still alive ,so no regrets ,it is not necessary u get or do everything what u want.right subha.
@puchapox (579)
• Philippines
23 Jun 07
They say its wrong to regret because what's done is done. My biggest regret is I didn't follow what I want, instead I obeyed my parents in choosing my college course. My childhood dream was to be an architect, and I wanted to study in UST. I know my parents could not afford the tuition so when I passed the UPCAT they persuaded me to enroll in UP diliman. I chose a course on a whim and I dropped out after 3 years because I can't force myself to like it, and I can't see my life leaning in that direction. Right now I'm working in a good for nothing job, I'm embarrassed when asked if I graduated and the most I can be is a call center agent.
• Australia
17 Jun 07
there are a lot of things that we could had done in our life but things happen for a reason. One of my regrets in life would be not knowing what i wanted to be in life. Im working in fashion retail its nothing biggy or fancy but i do enjoy working there, not much pay but it pays my bills. I had other jobs that i didn't like so i guess thats another regret that i had working in an industry that i didn't enjoy working in.
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
17 Jun 07
I have made so many mistakes and bad decisions but I reckon my one regret was when I bought my shop. It took all my savings and I was cheated and lied to by the previous owners. I lost everything. It was a very expensive lesson and I've never recovered from it.
@kusmadi (128)
• Indonesia
16 Jun 07
I don't know, sorry