Do you have any regrets?

@leyisa (486)
Canada
June 11, 2009 11:01am CST
A friend of mine claims that she does not regret any thing she has done in her life..I find that slightly hard to belive b/c I think we all have regrets, don't we? Perhaps i'm wrong...Do you have any regrets? If so, and you feel like sharing, what is your biggest regret in life?
2 responses
@carolbee (16230)
• United States
12 Jun 09
Actually this may sound stupid but this really did happen and I have regretted it for almost 40 years. My husband's aunt needed a bowling ball. I offered to let her use one of mine. It was not a gift but a loan until she could buy her own. She didn't use it and one day I asked for it back. I have always regretted asking for that ball back. I should have simply dropped it and moved on.
@leyisa (486)
• Canada
12 Jun 09
hi my friend - i don't think it was wrong for you to ask for it back. Technically it was a loan, right? so logically a loan needs to be repaid:)
@carolbee (16230)
• United States
13 Jun 09
Yep, it was a loan but not sure our aunt understood. I felt guilty for a long time about asking for the ball back.
@jessi0887 (2788)
• United States
11 Jun 09
She could be right. An old saying is you learn from your past. So why regret lifes hard lessons. I do feel regrets on alot of choices I made and things I feel I should of done differently but I feel it has lead me to where I am today. I feel it has taught me things I may of not known otherwise. At times it may of saved my life. So when I do think about those things I just think about where I am today and then I dont regret it as much.
• Canada
11 Jun 09
I feel the same way. There are some things that I look back on and wish that I had not done, or that I had handled differently. But at the same time, I know I would not be who I am today without those experiences. Hindsight is 20/20 right? :)