How to deal with regrets?

there is no such thing as life without any regrets. however, regrets can become either burdens that interfere with your present happiness and restrict your future, or motivation to move forward. if you find yourself overcome by regrets it is important to make action that you will overcome it.

The only thing I regret in my life is that I didn't go to college right when I got out of high school. Now I am 29, and still haven't finished a degree. What I should have done all those years ago was go to school to become a doctor. Unfortunately, my parents convinced me that I would pretty much amount to nothing, and that even if I was accepted to a school, there would be no way to pay for it. Now that I'm older and wiser (?) I know that I could have gone to medical school. I could have found a way. Now I have 3 children and a few health problems, so there is just no way I could get through the demanding school now.

given the chance to go back with my past,I'll definitely change the mistakes that I've done..but that's impossible..what I do is to learn from the mistakes that i did from the past,and try not to do it again..we do have regrets in life,but to avoid regrets,we should always remember that in every things that we will do,we need to make sure that we're happy about it..coz i believe that regrets come if your not happy and satisfied with what u did..live ur life to the fullest..and live as if this will be your last day here on earth..

I believe that everyone has regrets in some form or another, but with the mistakes we have made we learn from them so we can learn new skills in life and not make the mistake again. Everything happens for a reason, yet we can choose which path to go down, learning different things, and in the end we always end up in the right place we are supposed to be in our lives. You can't prevent making mistakes, you just simply must learn from them.

i believe that everyone of us, at one point in our lives made a decision which we regret. if only we could turn back time. but that's how it should be. we should just have to learn from our mistakes. and go on with our lives.

my life is all about regrets, I think it is something like a disease. It doesn't even have to be big decisions like my career, sometimes it is just about going to home by bus or taking a walk. i feel like i always pick the wrong ones. and the funny thing is feeling regret for everything doesn't make my decisions more difficult, instead it makes it easier for me cause I know I will regret it in either way :)

Not much.What is done cannot be done.Life goes on.The practical and best thing is to learn from your follies and correct yourself.Life is a lengthy learning process as far as I am concerned.

Well i have a regret in my life and i say that its the biggest for me till now in my life. I had one friend (girl) in my life who looked so sweet and cute.......well she is actually sweet and cute now also......we went to study together and our families knew each other and we were good friends. The problem was that she wanted to get along with me.....i mean she wanted to make some good relationship with me but i never saw us that way........i dont know what was there in my mind at that time but i said no to her. And today i see her with some other guy and it really hurts. I just lost her. Now we are just friends.

I have lots of frustrations in life. Somehow, one of those went gone because I did something 3 months ago. There are also lots of opportunities that I have missed, especially when I was in high school because of my inhibition - I'm very shy as in, but then I realized that I have the potentials, only that nobody encourages me also. Now, luckily, I have waken myself up, seeing me as someone who grabs as many opportunity as I can, though it looks like it's already late, that I am already in college. I just deal with regrets by saying that maybe, there are greater things than what I just missed.

I have regrets EVERY DAY of my life, and they are obviously not always about some lost opportunity. More than anything they are about small things, things I should have done or things I shouldn't have done in my daily life. That's why I'm attracted to Christianity, the concept of being a sinner definitely rings a bell with me. And since I have them every day, i just accept them and try to improve.

I don't believe I have regrets . I think I have acted on what my heart/mind felt to be the right source of action at the time. I think if all I got from that was a lesson, was an understanding of what was right or wrong in my life, Then it was what I needs to be taught. I believe everything happens for a reason, as we should embrace the good or the bad and take from that, the lesson as it was sent to us to learn. If you look at all that life throws at you as a learning lesso,n you will grow from it in some way.

I have many regrets in life, especially now that I have found my true value in God's sight. But I know that as stated in Rom8:28-30, "all things work togetrher for good for those who love the Lord."

I always let my regret,there are some regrets, but since it has been unable to change the fact that has occurred, I can only strive to move forward...

Is not an opportunity but an incidence that happend to me five years ago, which left me broke, If I could turn back the time I would have in other not to make that mistake.

my greatest regret is not doing my masters after my graduation and this decision (or rather lack of it) haunts me till this day. While in my school, I used to admire my teachers, the way they conducted themselves and how the children would always try to please the teachers...and i wanted to grow up and become a teacher. somehow, i lost my goal and getting a job, becoming an adult, having your own income suddenly became the priority of the day. i was naive, immature, over-confident of my abilities. i took the first job available and from then on, it was a slide downhill. i 'enjoyed' life, got married, had a kid and am now slogging it out with average pay and average satisfaction. yet i see girls younger than me and much less cerebrally qualified, completing their master, going in for teaching jobs and getting paid handsomely (the respect a teacher commands, is the icing on the cake). and then there are the holidays, so many of them to spend with your child and also the less hours of duty than a normal office job. i regret not pursuing my childhood dream...but of course i have moved on and is still moving on. however, i have promised myself that when my son comes of age, i will discuss with him the pros and cons of all career options and let him understand for himself what he is getting into, so that he will have less regrets.

Regrets? I don't believe in regrets!! I think everything happens for a reason be it a step in the right direction, or a mistake There is a reason for everything. If a person has learned from whatever it is s/he's done, be it a good thing or a bad thing, there should be no regrets.

It was only in yester years,i used to put all things to heart.Now that i dont put anything in my heart,i analyse the problems as and when and lets it go..if it stays no regrets..