It could be something simple, like not getting that double-double this morning. Or something more deep, like not taking that career opportunity when it came up.
I'll start:
I regret not taking my laptop home with me last week. So now I'm 3 days behind on work because of being stuck at home with this strep throat.
I regret not marrying the girl that I dated in university, I thought I could get better, but I've never found the better.
I regret leaving the Military, in hind sight I could have put up with a lot more of the BS (bad pay, disrespect from the people in civilian life at the time) in exchange for sticking with something that I was good at and enjoyed. I've never found that job satisfaction again.
I regret not stomping a hole in a bully that I had a problem with in junior high school, I didn't arrive at my personal philosophy of at least getting a good punch in until later in life.
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Regret is a pretty poor use of the resources that are your accumulated experience and wisdom. Better to take those and use them to appreciate the now, and to frame forward looking action.
"We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it."
I don't regret it, but I probably should've stuck it out in organized soccer longer. I was pretty good but stopped when I was around 14 or 15. I think it was the politics of team selection that eventually turned me off from it.
Only thing worse than death is a regret filled coffin.
See, I find that when I start thinking about "how we only have one life" is when my regrets kick in. So many things you will never ever have the chance to redo.
Depressing really.
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What do you regret?
