Do you blame yourself for something you should've done right before?

Philippines
July 30, 2010 6:42am CST
Life seems to be really unfair sometimes. Is there a time in your life where you blame yourself that you should have done something right before instead of doing the right thing? do you live with the regrets now that each time you thought of this it makes you hate yourself more?
14 responses
@joiele (49)
• Philippines
30 Jul 10
i made mistakes. i know that. i had a couple of regrets. but i don't dwell on them. i believe that everything happens for a reason. be it good or bad. good decisions lead to something good too. bad decisions lead to, well, mistakes. but i learned from those mistakes. and i don't regret the life and wisdom i have right now. don't punish yourself for something that already happened. instead learn from them then move forward w/ wisdom, strength and trust. trust yourself. that next time, given the same situation, you already know what to do. trust your wisdom. that if you will face another trial, you have the wisdom to guide you. :)
• Philippines
30 Jul 10
I made this comment the best response because i am looking for the phrase "everything happens for a reason". Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Yes! just go on with your life, we might regret some things we have done but then we should always look forward on what good life can bring us. we really learn from our mistakes and it will make us strong and we will be aware not to repeat the same mistake again.
31 Jul 10
Life is not a video films to pause or revise. Life is something we got to achieve to some purposes. Therefore we could not pause our life and blame or praise or sad or happy about past things. Life is a celebration. We should celebrate our life.
@shia88 (4571)
• Malaysia
31 Jul 10
Hi, Life is unpredictable.Sometimes we might make some mistakes in our life and start to blame ourself why we are doing it. But whatever has happened,it has over and stop blaming ourselves. We have to stay firm and make the right decision for the rest of our life. Blaming ourselves may not make the situation better. Let's find the solution to settle the problem and make it feel better. I always tell myself, never look backward, whatever the past,it was over. Always look forward and have a goal in our life,then you may know which direction to walk to.
@romzz05 (572)
• Philippines
31 Jul 10
As the great Homer Simpson said "Don't keep blaming yourself, blame yourself once and then moved on." This quote actually helped me to stop hating myself from mistakes of the past.
@phedot (3)
• Indonesia
31 Jul 10
i do not make too much blame myself, what else to drag on. if too blame themselves, let alone excessive, how we wiew other people's mistakes, if mistakes myself alone we can not forgive... =)
@phedot (3)
• Indonesia
31 Jul 10
i do not make too much blame myself, what else to drag on. if too blame themselves, let alone excessive, how we view otjer people's mistakes, if mistakes myself alone we can not forgive.... =)
• Philippines
30 Jul 10
we only realize things if we already done with it so how can we think of doing it right before doing it if we can only realize its wrong once were done with it. if things goes wrong then what we can do is to make sure it will not happened again than keep on digging the past.
• Philippines
30 Jul 10
It surprises me that I do not even have the time to blame myself for the bad things I've done. I see no point doing so when it can't help the situation at all or that I was thinking it still is early to tell whether what I did was wrong in the long run. And because I don't have the habit of returning to the past I am quite good in not putting blame to myself. Why dwell over it when I don't have time?
• India
30 Jul 10
Life is never running through a smooth way. There should be some uphill as well as some downhill in our life. So, there are so many right decisions as well as some wrong decisions also made in our life. My principle is that if i have taken any wrong decision i.e. i make a mistake and i can't restart it again. So, whatever the mistake i make i try to think that how i can recover for the mistake instead of blaming myself or angry over me. Be cool and find solution. Enjoy each seconds even if you are in trouble !!
@thanks1961 (7035)
• India
30 Jul 10
Hi Aara, 100 times a day I think of the same. I have done a lot of unfair things through out the last 5-7 years. The impact was severe and with 4-5 same (similar) experiences, I have not recovered. I did the same wrong thing again and again. Now it hurts me and feel guilty on the same. But while doing the same, my intention and ultimate aim was good and pure. But the people involve in the other side was cheat and not genuine. Only because of them, I had to face the bad consequences. The mistake that I did was I went for the similar one again and again. It was absolutely wrong and I didn't care of what others advised for me and jumped into those faulty deals again. If I could have done the right thing, then I could have lead a peaceful and happy life. But what ever is to come, it will come and now the suffering is the result. I cannot blame any body and suffering along and the dependents are the worst victims of my wrong choices. Regards, Thank-s
@hushi22 (4928)
30 Jul 10
I used to. But I realized all the things I've done are not worth any regret. I love my life as of the moment. =)
• United Arab Emirates
30 Jul 10
I have been with my wife for 6 years and married for 2 years now. We should have planned for a baby earlier. now i have bben out of the country for 5 months and we miss each other. If we had a baby she would not have missed me so much.
@ravi1811 (12)
• India
30 Jul 10
I too have often experienced life that appeared to be unfair.Despite doing what is right, got into a situation where I should not have landed into. However, if we try to emulate someone who has had very successful life or has always been in happy situation, things would not work out.Outcome of any endeavour and its perception by the world around us depends on so many factors that are beyond our control. As it is often said, a person can change only himself/herself.The world around us will respond irrespective of what we do or do not do. It is best to focus on present predicament and how to be happy in it. There comes a time when, after taking stock of situation with hindsight,one blames self.Instead of blaming, it needs to be looked upon as learning experience.We may have done the right thing, but, it did not work out that way. Life is like that.
• India
30 Jul 10
I do blame my life sometime only because of high pressure, but question arises when I used to think in different way.Life is uncertain we don't know when have to farewell the earth.Why to blame ourself , because mistakes are our experienced in life. I actually did many things which should be blamed but I don't like to do because why should we regret, I don't hope it will come back again.