wanted to do something but had to give up and later regretted?

I have to give up my dream of becoming a good lawyer. It was because of my own fault and there is no one else to blame. My parents sent me to a Premiere State University in our country. Ever since I was a child it was already my dream to become a famous lawyer. Everything changed when I went to college. I lost my focus and became more fascinated in night- outs with my brods and sisses that I always end up cutting my classes or not even attending my classes at all. I don't regret though that I joined a Sorority in our campus. I just regretted the fact that I was not able to manage my time well and balance my study with my Sorority. I don't blame my Sorority for what happened. I have sisses who are also active in our Sorority who were able to manage their time well and are now taking up Law in the same University that I have dreamed of pursuing Law. It is also the same University where we graduated in College. I regretted the fact that I neglected schooling. I was able to graduate in College but it took me 6 1/2 years to do so. It is still my dream to become a lawyer but I've alreayd given up and I know that it will just forever remain as my dream. I now have a family (hubby and 4 months old kid). I am a Supervisor in our company. However, I cannot say that I am completely happy with my work. Soemtimes, I still think of pursuing Law.

Well that can happen to anybody, i think. I have many regrets about things i should have done or shouldnt have done. But we cant go back anymore and edit our past. As we mature, we therefore think more when we have to do decisions.We think logically and think of the possible consequences. But still theres no guarantee thats its a 100% good choice isnt it? Simply because we are humans who are affected by feelings and whose surroundings we cant control.

udayrao2, Like you, I was also a keen competitive swimmer who could not pursue the sport any further after my academic years. Looking back I do not regret any moments or having to give up the sport entirely. Back then, my country does not have enough experience to enhance any sports and unlike the great sporting nations where the whole country is being involved - I would say that mine was way back and the results are telling. The best we ever achieved in my year was an Olympic consolation final, period. I know and understand how it was and had been back then to give up on our ideals and aspirations, so right now, I would always find myself in sports fund raising and sponsorship campaigns for the young and promising athletes in my country. I just feel that everyone has a path to walk and it may not be our ideal, yet it isn't all that wrong especially when it allows us to contribute back into our society. So, you can say here, that I am picking things up where I have left off and in a practical way, too. So let me encourage you here, not to mop away your years and look back regretfully. Live a life and well lived it. “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” - Maria Robinson Take care.

I've gone through something similar, when I got my first full time job and earning good money I got heavily into movies, collecting everything from DVDs, books, memorabelia and had this dream of somehow getting into the industry as a film critic. Well time passed, life changed and that never happened and whilst I still loved movies the dream disappeared although I regretted never taking up a few offers which came along but I thought too risky at the time. But a few years back I was forced to give up work due to a medical reason and whilst struggling with boredom and depression I got heavily back into the world of movies and started pursuing my dream again. I am still not a big film critic, but I have my own site where I post my movie reviews and fine tune my writing in the hope that one day I will achieve that dream. So although I regret not pursuing my dream when I first got into the world of the movies I am doing it now.

I too have many aspiration and dreams which I like to pursue similar at you but because of financial constraint. I need to take another course which is for a practical reasons which could help me to land in a better job. However, this lead me to feel discontented and whether I like to pursue it my earning is not yet enough. So I see parents who insist on their children to take up a following courses in college which they like but no the liking of their children, Since, it is the parents money they have to agree or else they would not go to school. Except when you are very bright and pass a scholarship you could choose whatever you like to pursue when you inclined to do so in latter part of your years you do not need to look up in the past and regrets something you fail to do. I think if you have the desires, talents and determination when you still young and their is an opportunity for it then it is alright to follow what your hearts lik, since life is so short makes the best out of it.

When i graduated from high school, I really wanted to become a lawyer and a painter but both dreams were unreachable since our family is not financially well off. Materials for painting are quite costly and taking up a precourse in law meant time and money. My parents and my aunt who's helping send me to school advised me to take a course which is highly in demand all the time and that is education. And so after graduating from college I began teaching at a private school in our province. I just contented myself with watching almost all courtroom dramas in tv and painting every now and then with the use of cheap materials since the salary of a teacher here in the Philippines do not leave much for extra something. But after 17 years of teaching I still feel that I should have done something to pursue my dreams. I am not 100% happy with what I am doing now and i feel that I should try something new which I will really be happy about.