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06-19-2019 08:25 PM
IF you care to share. No judgements. Few people walk without some regret of some kind. Are we the same or different?
I should have made different choices to education and travel when I was young.
06-19-2019 08:31 PM - edited 06-19-2019 08:32 PM
When I think of it, the only thing I would have changed is the circumstances I was born into. Of course, that is something one has no control over.
06-19-2019 08:35 PM
I would have considered being a teacher.
06-19-2019 08:40 PM
As my life has played out, I see no reason why I would change anything.
06-19-2019 08:45 PM
I regret never having children. Then I ended up with female problems later in life and had to have a hysterectomy.
06-19-2019 08:45 PM - edited 06-19-2019 09:15 PM
It’s a great question. One wants to look back, take stock, and learn from experience, yes. But I can’t say that I have any regrets, because everything has gotten me to this point. Change one thing, and who knows what else might be different now?
It isn’t a regret, but If I could go back to another time, I would visit my 15-year-old self to tell her it would all be OK. I was in an emotional freefall from my parents’ difficult separation and divorce, and although I didn’t show It to the outside world, I was desperately scared and distraught. It took decades and a lot of tears and talking to get the tangle of emotions sorted out. A distinct part of me was stuck back there at age 15. I almost felt that I was that 15-year-old’s big sister, and, bit by bit, I needed to help her work it out and be heard. Little by little, I became whole again.
06-19-2019 08:50 PM
I really have no regrets, it’s not that I never made mistakes, I made plenty of them. However, I did what I did each time for a reason that made sense then. I might have taken the easy way or the road less traveled, whatever it was it made my life what it is today and I can’t regret that.
06-19-2019 08:51 PM
I think I might have chosen a different career path. Or maybe it's more like, I would have been more deliberate in my pursuit of livelihood. I've had a great time and use the fruits of my experience with joy, daily, but some of the intellectual desires have gone unfulfilled.
06-19-2019 08:56 PM
I would definitely have chosen a different career.
06-19-2019 09:02 PM
@ECBG wrote:IF you care to share. No judgements. Few people walk without some regret of some kind. Are we the same or different?
I should have made different choices to education and travel when I was young.
Not too many regrets for me. Circumstances seem to affect most people. The only thing I wish I had the opportunity to do was continue on with my education after college. I acquired a degree in commercial art and wanted to continue on by attending a design school in New York. But with two other siblings in college at the same time, that wasn’t a possibility. I needed to get a job and an income...It all worked out and I enjoyed that first career for 13 years.....Later went into education for career number two..23 years....I enjoyed that as well. But to this day, I still think about the “what if”....
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