[SeekerOfLife]

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[LindaLu]

My biggest regret is putting up walls to prevent my getting hurt again. Now I wonder why I'm old and lonely. It's all been so stupid and amounted to nothing. There have been times and was more exploratory and open ; maybe I can do it again.

[IowaFarmGal]

I don't know if there's any point in regretting what can't be changed. I don't even know if it could have been different although I wish it had been. Maybe if I'd had competent help sooner instead of people that made things worse...

[Angelique67]

I regret my entire life but there's nothing I can do about any of it now.

[IowaFarmGal]

That's it exactly Angelique!

[lizardlady]

Seeker, why did you remove your post? You made a valid point.

For the most part I don't have regrets about my life. Wait, let me explain. Everything that's happened to me in life lead to me being the person I am today. I like this me. I wouldn't be who I am if those things didn't happen. Does that mean I'm happy about everything in my life? Heck no! There are things in my life I would not wish on someone I hated, BUT those things created the person I am today.

I do have one regret that probably sounds silly. When Mom was in the assisted living facility and fading away from Alzheimer's she said she wanted to visit her house because she couldn't remember what it looked like. I never took her. Five years later I still regret not taking her.

[IowaFarmGal]

Not crazy about the person I am.

[Goldcrest]

I don't think you can live life without any regrets - at least for me. I'm not generalising. Every decision you make has a downside and an upside. Looking back there are a lot of things I would like to change - but at the time I did what was possible. Somethings turned out better than others.

[hannabee]

I really feel like I didn't have much control over the things that happened in my life. Is that just a cop out?.... idk... really I don't.

[IowaFarmGal]

a lot of it for me was other peoples bad choices leaving me trying to deal with things the best I could. Don't really want to be a person or a female.

[seeker1950]

I made a LOT of bad choices. I spend too much time dwelling on that, I know. As Lizardlady said, I do realize those experiences have brought me to where I am today. I'm grateful now, after all of it, that I can see the experiences with clarity, and the life preparation (or lack of) that propelled me into the disasters in which I found myself. Knowing this is a kind of affirmation of how I have evolved to some kind of peace.

[IowaFarmGal]

I regret being so vague and spacey all my life. I regret the damage that makes me struggle in life. I regret not being fully able to love my loved ones while I had them. I regret being who I am and unable to fix my life. If I had choices I never saw them or knew what they were.

[Sigirl4evr]

I am another person that does not regret things in life, I agree it has made me the person I am today. Have I made bad choices in my life? Yes Do I like everyday? no But a new day is coming and I am in control of making it a better day. If my day is not good, then maybe I can do something to help someone else to have a blessed day.

[Pikku Myy]

Believe there are many "things" I regret, but have learned to live in NOW It was the best decision at the time for me and cant change the past, so why worry.

[IowaFarmGal]

Seem to have messed things up again. Hate that. Sorry Folks...

[SeekerOfLife]

I regret starting this thread. It seems I am again the oddball and just plain dumb. (sorry)

[gayleggg]

I regret hurting those I loved with my manic behavior.

[Fuzzybear]

((((((((( SeekerofLife )))))))))
I don't think of you at all as an "oddball" or "dumb"

And my opinion is more valuable than those unfortunates who label and judge without even bothering to find out the facts (IRL...)

Love
Fuzzy

(as a bear I will never reach 50 )

(I do have some regrets.. I'll PM you? )

[dancinglady]

I have so many regrets I can't see straight.

[seeker1950]

Originally Posted by SeekerOfLife

I regret starting this thread. It seems I am again the oddball and just plain dumb. (sorry)

It was brave of you to start this thread. You speak for many of us here who struggle with the same thoughts!

[lizardlady]

Originally Posted by SeekerOfLife

I regret starting this thread. It seems I am again the oddball and just plain dumb. (sorry)

Seeker, from where I sit you fit in with the majority who responded to this thread. Seems I'm the oddball in the group for not having regrets.

Hon, ain't no way you are "dumb." Like the "other" Seeker pointed out, you opened a discussion of something others were thinking.

[Koko2]

I regret "going for it" (chasing a goal) too late in life, then getting osteoarthritis from working too hard at a blue collar job because I didn't insist that the kids do their fair share of the work, effectively nullifying my efforts.

[Fuzzybear]

I regret trusting untrustworthy people . I regret being gullible and being so hurt by people's cruelty. I regret allowing myself to be used and violated. I regret being honest to those who I had no reason to trust

(nobody here)

Thank you for graciously allowing me to post in your thread dear friend ((((((( SeekerofLife )))))))

[IowaFarmGal]

I regret that people we welcomed can't post here with us and never want anyone to feel excluded.

[Cygnus8548]

When we get past a certain old age, don't you think it is healthy to just try and forget our many mistakes and try and be happy each day, to the extent, that is, that our psychological problems will allow it?