Life choices, Do you regret yours?

@besweet (9861)
Ireland
September 2, 2012 9:13pm CST
Having control of our lives means that we need to take a lot of choices for ourselves! Having to choose for our future is difficult because when we et to make the choice we also have full responsibility for the consequences. I try to take everything as an experience that will make me a better person and I believe that we should not regret for our choices even if we could have done something different. Life is unpredictable and if we support our choices we might get good things from them! Do you regret any of the most important choices that you'va made ao far?
14 responses
@imAbigael (475)
• Philippines
3 Sep 12
No I don't feel regret because in some point its my decision anyway and I want that to happen. I can only feel this if the bad decisions I made was already over for a long time and I can laugh on it.
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@besweet (9861)
• Ireland
3 Sep 12
I also think that we support our decisions that we have taken in the past because we always get good things and experience even if we make some mistakes. That's what makes us stronger and wiser for the future! I also laugh with some bad decisions that might have been embarassing at the end, but I accept them because I had the option to choose and I thought that it was what I should do at that time!
@ardoy0731 (7308)
• Philippines
3 Sep 12
There will always some choices in our lives that we will be regretful in the end once we chose it but this is were we became stronger and learned about life.This is were we stand again and learned to those regret and became a better person in the end.It is part of journey in life.
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@besweet (9861)
• Ireland
3 Sep 12
We learn from our mistakes and experience forms our character. I like the way that you see it as a part of the life journey! Thinking positively about good and bad decisions makes us successful in life!
@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
3 Sep 12
I have said more then once that if I had a daughter later in life money would not have been such a challenge to make ends meet. Truthfully, I learned how to use my money wiser and not spend until I spent time really deciding if the item would be used. Many items didn't get purchased and I'm sure we really didn't need them.
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@besweet (9861)
• Ireland
4 Sep 12
Having a child is blessing and I think that there are so many decisions that women are called to make after giving birth! I have also wonedred what would have happened if my parents had concieved me at another time. But I am happy that they didn't because they wouldn't have me. They would have another child. So along with that choice there are many other facts that would have changed and you never know how your life would have evolved. It is also wonderful that you have found a way to solve your problems, meterial goods might give us pleasure temporarily but if we don't really need them we can save money and use them for other more importnat purposes.
• Pasay, Philippines
3 Sep 12
We makes mistakes, we regret and what's most important is we acknowledge those mistakes and do something about it to correct those mistakes. As far as I'm concern; the most regretful thing happened was listening to my parents. I have my own rules ever since I grew up even that I live with them. Way back June, as I tried to please them in a way, I've listened to my mom's "request" in taking care of the major bills and give more contribution that I usually give to them. I agreed since I have to help my younger brother's college needs. Then there goes those 2 months of helping them at my extreme effort. Then there's August. As last month sets in; everything was all breaking loose; as in hell did breaks loose. I lost tracks of my own house contributions and now I'm about to loose the house that I am paying for so I can move in. Now that's stupid. Mom keep on blaming herself for being so dependent on me that she tried finding someone who can borrow money, too but can't help her as well. I maybe in the midst of blaming her for not being mindful about our debts and payments and all the heck relating financial matters, but for me; we make bad decisions in life, that's part of getting mature. But blaming others doesn't shows that you're mature enough. My favorite line; "Some situations can't be helped" was uttered form me and well; what I can do is to find ways to fix these problems. That's the way of living. We encountered many good and bad things, happenings, people and events. It's upon us if you want to run away from it or do something about it. But for whatever reason or consequences we may face by doing our actions are normal. Think about a book without a plot. Life is like a book; the rest is still yours to put a good plot and ending on it. Happy mylotting, this is the best thought that I can share so far and I have no regrets. LOL.
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
3 Sep 12
I love my children so much. But I regret getting married in such an early age because I wasn't able to provide for them as much as I would want to. If I have waited on marrying atleast a couple more years after college, I could have prepared the future of my family well.
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@besweet (9861)
• Ireland
3 Sep 12
Starting a family is an important choice and we all want to have the best possibilities and provide everything for our family & kids. But I believe those decisions define our life and it's good that you took it early, when a carrer starts then women think about family in a different way and some might decide to pursue their carrer. You might be able to develop your career in parallel with your family and be a working mum. My mother had a great job at the public sector but she left it to take care of me & my brother a few years after we were born. She tried to combine both at the same time but it didn't work for her. Now she doesn't have any regrets because she tried it and couldn't do it in parallel because she didn't have any help from family etc.
@Raine38 (12257)
• United States
3 Sep 12
I did have some life decisions which I regret, but I will never resent the person that I have become out of learning the lessons from these decisions. I also was able to adapt and better myself when I found out that my decision did not bring out the results I wanted. I admit that there are some things which I would rather didn't do, but then I guess it only contributes to my upbringing. And seeing the love that surrounds me, I think I still did well afterall.
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@besweet (9861)
• Ireland
4 Sep 12
All the experiences that we get form who we are. Even bad decisions are good for us eventually because they make us stronger. I have realised for myself that even the worst periods of my life have offered me good things, I learned a lot during those times and I was able to avoid situations like this in the future, or I knew how to face them.
@airasheila (5454)
• Philippines
3 Sep 12
a pleasant day besweet, before, i never thinked that regret has a space in my life. that even there are some consequences, i can able to find a remedy. but now, i am experiencing a lot of regrets. first of all, i have regretted the life that i chose. wherein, i have chose my family and do a career redirection to be with them. but, unfortunately, they did not appreciate what i have done. so now, i am still facing the consequences. facing some depressions. and, always say, if i could only turn back the time, i would rather go back to the life that i have before. being away with my family, working apart from them. but, what to do, i am already here and i need to bear the consequences. and i am slowly picking up the pieces that i have lost due to that choice that i have done. i am also trying my best to back at the track and looking for some part-time jobs for now.
• Philippines
3 Sep 12
yes, there are some regret but since it is already past, so i need to get over from t and move on to the future life. there may be some wishful thinking that i need to make a new career move or start before so my situation would be different from what i have now. the time is the greatest enemy and once many opportunity flies it becomes so hard to capture them back like what it was before. so though regret s natural we could not go back to rectify mistakes before that already happen and so the choice i made now s still not perfect but i will do things i desire without anyone forcing me to do it because this are the things that i love to do. f other think it as a wrong move, could not lame them since it is me who could suffer the consequences of my action and at least i give my best f my best s not enough, at least i try.
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@obe212003 (2299)
• Philippines
3 Sep 12
Choices are to be made throughout the span of our lives, and with these choices, we create a path of our journey through life. We base our choices on different things that affects our thoughts based on what we want, and the consequences could sometimes not be what we would expect and yet it would surely make or break us, lol! You can always think about your choices, but never regret about it as this would keep holding you down to move on to make better choices.
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@bostonphil (4459)
• United States
3 Sep 12
I have made many bad choices in life and I have many regrets. As a Yankee, I probably made a mistake in moving to Texas from San Francisco. I was very attracted to left wing people in the 70's although I was not very left wing myself. I became involved with the local music scene in Austin, another bad choice. And I always chose the wrong man to be attracted to. i have learned from my bad choices but at 67 years old, I do not have that many years left to re-invent myself. If I could go backwards, I would change so much that I have done and live differently.
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@KOSTAS499 (1624)
• Greece
5 Sep 12
I am OK with most of them. I would change some things but over all I can say that I can look at my self in the mirror with pride.
@blinjk (617)
• United States
3 Sep 12
Sometimes I regret the choices that I have done in the past but at least I have learned a lot from it.The choices sometimes that I choose makes my life better or sometimes it is worst.So, if I made a wrong choice.I will just take it as a lesson or a challenge and I will just do better next time.
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• China
3 Sep 12
Sometimes there is a thought in our mind: It has been better if I chose the opposite at that time? However, we all cannot know how it will become if the other choice was taken, which may bring worse ending. So donot have a meaningless suspect, just face your situation now and try your best to solve the problem. It is wise not due your hard time to your past choice but to your ability, which prevent you from being regretful for the past to work hard for the coming.
@kongno (431)
• Philippines
9 Sep 12
whenever i see the word regret i always recall the biggest mistake i ever made in my entire life, that is to decision to abort my fist baby he or she already at his/her 20 now if i just made the right decision