Regret is the biggest shadow on my life. I regret almost every major action I take and the thoughts of said hijack my brain and, consequently, my life. I know most people regret things and certain regrets haunt their lives for a long time, but literally not a second goes by where I don't think about my regrets. It is a personal struggle I'll probably have to live with for the rest of my pathetic life. I wish I was exaggerating when I say how much I think about these things, but it's true and it's crippling.
The only time I don't think about these things are when I'm with friends and having a good time, which, lately, has been non-existent. I'm hoping my big move to Japan will change my scene enough to shock me out of this and help me enjoy my future with my friends, but I know another lull will come and all I'll have for company are my carnivorous regrets.
Ugh, I'm even regretting posting this as I write it. Be kind with me.
--Till then...
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4 comments:
Anthony, What are you regretting about?
And you should try looking at your past as not regret, but as part of your learning experiences in life. Because even if it was something bad, at least you learned something--if it's your current job you're regretting, then look at it as an experience you learned NOT to get those type of job in the future. If it's your living situation, look at is as though you learned that it's not your time to live in wisconsin yet, but you're a traveler and an independent person who always wants to try living in a new world. ya kno? Everything you do is a lesson you'r elearning, it's not a waste of time and it's not something you should spend your time regretting about.
i totes agree with aimi!!! i'm not quite sure what you regret, but anything that i regret, i realize that it has made me who i am. you are a beautiful person, and your regrets make you who you are, flawed, but stronger for them.
What I'm regretting mostly is missed opportunities and wasted potential. I feel like I should be so much farther along than this and that I had a chance at so much more that I squandered. I don't like the person who I am so thinking about how the decisions I've already made created this person typing right now really bums me out...
Hey, you missed those opportunities for a reason: to take up another opportunities to be where you are now! And wasted potential? No! we always have potential to do anything anytime, it wasn't a waste before, it was just not your time yet! All you have to do is if you know you had a potential before, stop regretting about it and start living up to your potential again in the future! Even if you don't think you're not doing anything to enhance your potential, whatever you're doing now is already something that was made possible BECAUSE of the potential you have. No time you spent in the past is wasted, the past experiences (both of whatever you got to do and you Didn't get to do) are really what makes you who you are now. you might not like what you are now b/c you might be feeling incomplete, but i feel like that's because you're in the process of becoming the bigger self than you are now, and that can be frustrating. And I understand your frustration b/c I'm going through it too, and I hate that feeling too. Don't hate yourself! We all love you no matter who you are!
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