What is the one regret you have in your life?

not being in band in high school.

Having sex with that guy drunk at that party. He wasn’t drunk. I guess it was technically rape, but I don’t remember it well enough to care.

I think I have too many other regrets to count. Most of them involve me saying things I didn’t mean because I was upset or angry. So, not thinking before speaking, I guess.

Maybe…someday, I’ll be one of those wonderfully wrinkled old women, you know, with smile lines and I will say, “I have no regrets.”

you should never regret love. love only makes you stronger.

I have several regrets in my life but two significant ones that come to mind right away are my first marriage because it turned out to be such a painful and disastrous relationship and the second one was never taking enough time to tell my father how much I loved him before he passed away from cancer.

Shallow as it may seem, I truly regret never being content with myself as I am at that moment. For example when I was 21, 41, whatever, I was always in reasonably good shape but was never happy with myself. Now at 64 I would love to have that shape back because I am not happy with what age is doing to my body now. I am still in pretty good shape, run 3 -5 times a week, but never content. I am sure if I make it to 74 I will be wishing I had my 64 year old body back because I know I will really hate my body then!

Dealing with the pain of my parents divorce, I isolated myself during my later years of highschool. I missed out on a lot of things and lost a bunch of friends. Therefore not going to college right away, HUGE mistake.
I know everything happens for a reason, but I always wonder what my life would have been like if things didn’t change .

Not pursuing a musical career either in orchestra conducting or arranging.

I do not know if I regret it or not. When I was young, after my schooling, but before I was sent to Arrakis, there was a girl. I met her on the outing club trip. We fell in love, so I thought. And we got married the day before I shipped out. I was away a long time, and because of where I was working, it was impossible to send back word. I got home after three years to find that she had left with someone else. She had the marriage annulled somehow. If I she had been there, I might have lived dull and happy. She wasn’t there, so I went on another assignment, and then another, and so on. I did not have time for love, and now, I do not have the inclination. But I have experiences I would not trade away for her.

Never reporting the sexual abuse and putting an end to the cycle that created even more regrets.

Not Excepting the Lord at an earlier aged..I was raised in the church and was a very good girl….I am now 60 years old and have never drink anything stronger than a coke.Never smoke ,never been to a club or wild party,not even a dance…That didn’t make me a christian…I said things I shouldn’t…I had thoughts That were not pleasing to the lord…I had good christian parents and lived a shelter life.I relize now how many friends I could have been a better friend to had I turned my life over to the Lord when I was young.Mother and Daddy took me to church and not send me.The guys I dated had to go with me to church on Sunday night or I wasn’t allowed to dated them.Mom said ,if they wont go now they wont go if you marry them..Many of them got saved dating me but not me. One of them became a Holliness preacher.Many times my best friend has told me how Jealous she was of me and my family..Her mother cruse and never went to church with them. She was all the time fussing…I had to go to church three days a week…Sunday morning and Sunday night as well as Wednesday..To me it was a way of life..I never knew she was wishing she had a life like mine….There was so many things I couldn’t do being of the Holliness faith…She was allowed to do whatever she wanted…I think now of how many I could have maybe helped if I had given my life to the Lord earlier on…We were poor but we had love and above all Mother and Daddy lived the life before us…They gave us a christian home and told us about serving the Lord…We were also told what would happen if we didn’t follow the Lord..When I think about it I was really very rich even though to the world we had so little..I was sixteen before I knew what a cruse word was…I was in high school and herd the d word…To me it was a new word..That night I said“Pass the D potatoes Please”...Wow, Mother asked me when did I start cruse like that..I didn’t know it was a cruse word…I asked Mother what were cruse words???Even then she would not say it…She said,“Donna Kay,anything you hear me say you can say .anything you see me do you can do but don’t you do or say anything you don’t hear me say or do.I said to myself o boy and I watched her…I never hear Mother say a cruse word and never saw her do anything I couldn’t do…I finally figure out when I heard a new word that wasn’t used a home what it was…I am talking about words friends at school said..Wouldn’t it be great if all parents were like that..Crime rate would go down…I think now about when I got married…Like everyone else I started a family without thinking…If I could know what I know now.my prayer would have been Lord if my children will not except you don’t let me ever have any…I hate to think about having a child and then not excepting Christ and going to hell..My advice to you young people is think about that and pray about it…It is better to never have a child then to have one that dies lost…We don’t think about those things when we are young..I thought about myself but it never cross my mind about t my child..That is the one thing I really regret..My children know the right way and they are good children but they so far are not saved..I wish I had thought more about what if and asked the Lord to prevent me from having a child if they will never know him…I know what some of you are thinking..You wouldn’t have had any if it want his will…Yes I think so…We tried to get pregant and we stopped at two..God also gives us a brain and expects us to use it..We know two was enough for us..Young people live the life you would want your children to live…Show then,Don’t just tell them…If you want your children to be good adults then live it before them…Don’t do like I did…Give your life to Christ early…We took the Children to church but even in school as a early teen my friend were watching me..I was a really good girl but if I had study and read my Bible more and watch my mouth I may have helped a lot of my friends..My best friend is now a christian but she gives that credit to my Mother..Just think what I could have done…Yep ,I regret I didn’t served the Lord earlier and Prayed before I had children…Thank you
Donna