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...I had known that when I was younger...
Regret may be a wasted emotion - we can't change the past but we can learn from it, 'n all that, but...
No matter what age you are now, is there something you have learned from experience which would have been helpful to you when you were younger and less wise?
Please no "you only learn from your mistakes/it's all part of the rich tapestry of life/I don't regret a single thing/all my mistakes led me to the happy place I'm at now" type stuff: We're talking pure melancholic "if only i'd known that when i was younger" here, and i betcha most of you can think of something.
PS. "I wish I hadn't done that" is also valid currency here...
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Children are a gift and not a right
nobody who you love or who loves you will ever live long enough. Tell them and show them that you love them more often. Don't waste time sulking
money spent on chanpagne, good smoked salmon, expensive chocolate and icecream is never wasted
Always tell the truth, its less effort in the long run
"No thank" you is an acceptable answer and doesn't require any explanantion
Good manners are a jewel
Good manners in the face of bad manners are priceless
Excellent, excellent... this is the sort of thing i'm after!
While i'm at it, i wish that...
a) I had valued time with my mum more, and not whined when on holidays that she'd put herself out to make nice
b) not thrown vast amounts of cash around when i had it
c) not watched so much tv - gone out more, learnt to play music, played a sport, exercised more in some way when i was a teenager
d) been less self obsessed in my twenties
are we on a limited stream here, or is there a vast well still to tap?
I wish I had known that.....
my mum was telling the truth when she told me that she always knew what I was up to,
My son would grow up so quickly
School years really could have been the best years of my life
Reputation is what other people know about you, Honour is what you know about yourself
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
I wish that...
I'd had the confidence to say what I wanted or felt at the time
I'd realised my mum was the way she was because that's all she knew how to be
And that I'd listened to her less, not more - sorry, but mums aren't always right
That I hadn't been such a worrier (& it's a hard habit to break - hi Arsenal ;-) )
That I'd run away with Michael from the fair!! :-)
regrets
not telling people how i felt when the moment was right, so many times
spending so much time lying in bed planning what iwas going to do with the rest of my life instead of actually doing it
giving up on dreams way too early on(I'm only 21)before anyone tells me its not too late I KNOW. i spend a lot of time lying in bed thinking about that : )
not working very hard at university
I wish I hadn't been so easily influenced because I wanted to fit in.
I wish I'd always had the guts to do what I knew I wanted to do rather than what people though I should do.
I wish my mum had brought me up to take better care of my skin so I wouldn't have had to put up with spotty teen and tween-age years! (that's more of a flippant one, though)
Most of all I wish I'd know how much I would love my little girl who is now four months old and how happy she would make me - I spent the first three or four months of my pregnancy almost suicidal with depression (hormones and life-disruption, huh?).