Is it normal to have a lot of regrets in life?

Question

What is your biggest regret in life?

Dajani · Accepted Answer

If you don't have regrets, then you haven't been living.

Everything happens for a reason, you might think its bad or good when it happens, but later on as the days go by, you'll understand why it happened. Life has a way of always working out. There is always a bigger plan.

So never regret what you did, it'll get you to where your potential is. Consider regret a teacher along the path of life.

Decentguy · Accepted Answer

Totally normal. but you shouldn't have regrets in your life, you should learn your lessons from it and move on, regrets only makes a person weaker.

Quintessence · Accepted Answer

I've always ended up regretting the things I didn't do more than the things I did. Like how I took my time in high school for granted instead of making the most of it. I regret being such a reserved, bookish person; I feel like my personality and attitude cost me a lot of good memories during my teenage years.

samhradh_leannan · Accepted Answer

Mistakes are how we learn. It's completely normal to have regrets. But if you're making the same mistake again and again, then you may want to reflect on why that is happening and what you can do to change it.

LaFemmeFatale · Accepted Answer

Only stupid people don't regret. I've done things that made me regret so much that I literally couldn't sleep for many nights. But I try to be forgiving to myself, we all make mistakes.

CameronMusick · Answer

Not taking my schooling seriously from middle school through highschool. I also regret doing drugs and getting into trouble instead of joining school clubs and enjoying myself like a normal kid. Thankfully I've made a U-turn, but sometimes I wish I could get the time back that I lost.

babaganoosh · Answer

Absolutely.
Regret is a catch 22. You'll regret when you do, you'll regret when you don't.
Even when you are satisfied with your decitions, you'll question alternative outcomes.
Regret is inevitable, confidence breads satisfaction and that's why you always regret more the decitions you didn't make and the actions you didn't take.

"for to lose I could accept but to surrender
I just wept and regretted this moment"
-The flaming lips

WiseTurtle · Answer

My biggest regret in life is that I never regret something that worth regrets without thinking about regretting it and makes me regret it at the end.

Being_a_good_Indian · Answer

No regrets. It only hurts in living a happy life. 😊

D_Bone_Steak · Answer

I should've banged more girls in High School, more hookers in the military, and should've never got married so I'd be banging more girls right now.

datgirl · Answer

I definitely feel A LOT of regret for things I've done or said. Still haunts me. And I still make mistakes that make me cringe, but i guess that's how life works. You make mistakee, you regret, you learn from it and keep growing.

spaceshuttle · Answer

I will change many things, if i had to live it all over again. However, i don't want to think about those things, instead I learn from them and move on.

booshlinux · Answer

Yeah, but it's a mistake to dwell on those regrets, just move on

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

If you make a lot of stupid decisions then it's normal to have lots of regret in life. My biggest regret in my life was being around losers and wasting my time.

Unit1 · Answer

None significant for me. But only, that I was born.

DesiBeautyLover · Answer

I guess Not approaching that girl who kept staring at that beach in Aruba

IHateBeingaMan · Answer

I would say its part of being human, I would say the number one regret for most humans is not starting or doing something earlier

Anonymous · Answer

Not to get a sexting buddy and have sex or a friends with benefits lol kidding (but they are true as well sadly 😕) To take up my major which I didn't want to study

imprince · Answer

Yes it's normal. biggest is, i can't make my parents happy

Anonymous · Answer

Yep. We all have regrets. But you should accept ypur past regrets don't take you anywhere

Anonymous · Answer

Nope, only if one has had a lot of indiscretions or in many cases - a lack of good judgement

browning1996 · Answer

Yes. I have too many to name

1152pm · Answer

No point looking back.

philipph · Answer

To not have acted when i wanted

BronzedAdonis · Answer

ruining things with the girl I loved

TriTree · Answer

Yep. We all do and will

Insanyx12 · Answer

Failing to prevent my girlfriends suicide

eagle1951 · Answer

sure has been with mind

adcool0007 · Answer

I have too many regret... Should I die

cutemz · Answer

Yesss

disgustingweebtrash · Answer

Yeah

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