Did you do something in the past that you have regretted?

Philippines
March 21, 2009 1:03pm CST
hi there. Sometimes what we do in the past reflects our future it's true and what is done is done and we cannot do anything to change it. Last December our highschool batch had a reunion I didn't attend because i was ashamed of myself not finishing college and not having a decent job to be proud of. I then looked into my past and regret the day I had to quit my college. Maybe if I can change my past my family would be very proud. Have u done something in the past that you regretted? Happy mylotting guyzzzz! Thanks
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@Niah1976 (739)
• Paranaque, Philippines
21 Mar 09
i don't regret anything that i did in my life because during the times that i am deciding it, i feel that i am sure of what i am doing. besides, whatever i have done in the past maybe good or not, i am responsible to accept the conequences. I don't regret, i am just thankful for the lessons learned. so cheer up!!! for sure there are lot of things that you have that you're former classmates don't have. God know what is the best for us. For sure He has a better plan for you. So no need to feel bad about it. what matter is that you are happy with what you have decided. never regret the things you did. just pray for the best and avoid doing mistakes if possible. regards to you!!!!
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• Philippines
21 Mar 09
Thanks for the response. really uplifted my spirit. God Bless!!
• Philippines
21 Mar 09
Yes I will Thanks!!!!
@Niah1976 (739)
• Paranaque, Philippines
21 Mar 09
thanks also for choosing my answer as the best response. forget the word regret from now on, ok.
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@abanerji (1026)
• India
21 Mar 09
all of us make mistakes and later repent on them. but there is no point in repenting on mistakes. our past has a lot to teach us. take a lesson from the past and move ahead in life. if you look back and repent then you would lose this present of your again. now is the time to take action. what is gone is already gone, it cannot come back. you have to make the most of the present to have a brighter tomorrow. even i have made mistakes in the past, why past i even make mistakes in the present. but the point is to forget the loss but keep in mind the lesson that the mistakes teaches us. so that we don't repeat those mistakes again in life.
• Philippines
21 Mar 09
Hi, thanks for your response.
• United States
21 Mar 09
I have done many many things I regret now. Such as dropping out of highschool, and then, not going to college after I got my GED. And, having children so early in my life. BUT, even though I regret those things, I would NEVER change them. Because if you change ONE thing about your past, EVERYTHING changes. Such as, you wouldn't have the children you have now, or live in the house you have now, or the job you currently hold and love. So, while its ok to say that you regret those things, just know that everything happens for a reason and its all part of the master plan.
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• Philippines
21 Mar 09
yeah your right. the one thing I'm proud of is having my little girl.Thanks for the response. Happy mylotting.
@mikeysmom (2088)
• United States
22 Mar 09
i regret alot of things unfortunately but it really does me no good to dwell on them. i regret not going to college or some kind of further education, i regret marrying the man i married and not asking pertinent questions that have affected my life since, i regret gaining weight and letting myself go because the road back has been so hard and it seems almost impossible. oh well. no one is perfect and i do the best i can with what i have. i am trying to improve things.
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• India
21 Mar 09
I loved a girl when i was in twelfth standard and i broke up with her after schooling. I don't know why i broke up with her and i regret it today to have left her. I wish i could go back and start again with her.
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• Philippines
21 Mar 09
Hi, thanks for the response. I hope that you two can be together again.
• China
22 Mar 09
yes, i really have some, just like not going to Canada, married my wife and gave birth to my kid, because if i had not do these, might i'll have another living, maybe better or worse. *_^
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@ajithlal (14716)
• India
22 Mar 09
There are lots of things I have regretted that I should have done in the past. One is education wise. I was doing MCA while I got the job of an open university. I have discontinued after second semester. I should have completed that. I also discontinued doing MCOM, which I should have continued. I had the habit of saving money when I was younger. I had saved lot of money and after saving it I spend all the money together, which I had saved for the lots of years. I think if I get a chance to go to the past, I would have changed a lot of things that I have done.
@roi452 (232)
• Philippines
22 Mar 09
I have many things that i regret doing in the past. The course I took in college, some people i hang out with, career choices, wrong relationships but overall i've learned from all of them. I've learned to survive, and i learned how to correct most of the wrong thins i did. looking back, i can say it's not so bad but it could have been better.
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@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
22 Mar 09
somehow we have same stories. i didn't attend the high school reunion here in quezon city. i didn't finished college either. though i am ashamed that i didn't finished college. it was not actually my biggest regret. or nor i regret it that much. my biggest regret was not able to attend that high school reunion. up until now. i feel so bad that i missed that cause that affected my life now and still my future. i didn't know that something that seems to be simple like a high school reunion that was not able to attend to will affect me. it is not the reunion per se that i feel sorry about that i was not able to attend to. it is the friend or this one friend that i was yearning so long to meet and see. i thought this person will not show up in this high school reunion. too bad. that person did attend. and i was missing in that place. anyways, what is done is done as you have said. what i mean to say i am really surprised those simple things in life that i have not got in life are the ones that affected me a lot personally and not those things like career and studies that i have not been successful of. i thought when i was young that if i will not finish a course or degree that it will be the biggest mistake or the biggest thing that i will be sorry for not having to finish. i was wrong. if i could bring back time i will not focus much on those studies and focus on relationship that i missed a lot.
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@carrine (2743)
• Philippines
21 Mar 09
i used to think a lot of things before that i regretted of doing it, but right now? no more, because i believed that God has a reasons and purpose why it happens those things to us, there are no accident, all are his plans .. so have faith, and stop worrying things,
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@ancy114 (102)
• India
22 Mar 09
hmmm yes ur right !!! even i face a same problem like u .... wen i was doin ma college i was not tat serious abt job so i didnt atten most of the campus coz i didnt prepare well ...but most of ma frends they studied well and they got placed in good companys....i came outta college now but still i'm searching for job ... now i regett for wat i've done
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• United States
22 Mar 09
Yes I have & more than one time I have did something I have regretted later. If only we could have better hind site. I believe the reason we as humans make so many mistakes in life is we are so close to the situation that we can not see the full picture. But this is how I feel about my regrets....I will grow stronger & learn from the mistakes & move on with my life. For that is all we can do & do our best not to dwell on the mistakes for after all we are humans flaws & all.
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• China
22 Mar 09
I made my mother cry when I was a young girl.Both she and I are sad at that time and at last we say sorry to each other. It is difficult for me to remember what happened at that time,but I made her cry ,that is her only cry I have ever seen till now.I feel very regretted and hope that in the future she won't cry !
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• China
22 Mar 09
I don't regret anything even though the result is bad.Because eveything I do is what I choose to do,no matter what the result is.That's my choice.The past thing can't change.Why don't we try to enjoy it?This is life.
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@Archie0 (5636)
22 Mar 09
Yes i think we each one of us tend to do many mistakes in our life which we regret later, life is mean to be like this only. even i have made so many mistakes in my life for which i am regreting now and i think i will always regret throughout my whole life, it always disturbs me within.I think and wish to go back to those past days and mend everything that was broken and try to live my life from there. Oh i wish i could really mend it now.
• Canada
21 Mar 09
I recently had a wonderful job in the best salon i had ever worked in. But thanks to my highly emotional state and my ability to take anything as a slight i walked out in the middle of the day leaving all of my clients for that day without a hairdresser and quitting that job. BIG REGRET!!!!
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• Romania
21 Mar 09
I regret that I leave the city where I have born...
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