Regrets? No Way!
I've been looking back at my life and my past lately and evaluating how far I've come from where I was. I am so happy with where my life is now, I do complain often... usually about my job (which honestly could be better) but I am thankful that I have one that pays well and has excellent benefits. A friend was talking to me about regret the other day and how they didn't regret or really feel bad about things they had done in their life. So up onto my soapbox I climb.
I look back at my life and I have no regret for anything I've ever done. I screwed my life up immensely as a teenager and in college, I did things I knew I shouldn't and I didn't really care until they started to close in on me. Once I realized where I was and how hard it was going to be to get back to where I needed to be it really took its toll on me emotionally. I used to cry myself to sleep some nights wondering how I'd gotten there.
Here's the thing though, I can't regret that which has made me the amazing woman I am today. We all go through tough stuff in our lives, trials of our own making and trials that we have no control over and how we react and what we do with it later helps to shape us into the people we are...incidentally that's an ongoing process. I find it fascinating how often people talk of regret in their lives and what things from their youth that they wish they could take back. If I could go back, would I do it all the same? Absolutely.
I would not dare regret or take back the things, no matter how traumatic, terrible, or ridiculous, that happened in my life because those things are exactly why I am who I am. I love who I am, I can finally say that! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the person I have become and the person I see myself becoming and to take back anything that created this person would be blasphemy.
*On a side note: I find it important to mention that there are somethings some people maybe should regret...murder? yeah, so some things yes, but in this I'm speaking in particular of the transgressions of youth*
Post Song: Low Flying Owls - Glad to be Alive
I look back at my life and I have no regret for anything I've ever done. I screwed my life up immensely as a teenager and in college, I did things I knew I shouldn't and I didn't really care until they started to close in on me. Once I realized where I was and how hard it was going to be to get back to where I needed to be it really took its toll on me emotionally. I used to cry myself to sleep some nights wondering how I'd gotten there.
Here's the thing though, I can't regret that which has made me the amazing woman I am today. We all go through tough stuff in our lives, trials of our own making and trials that we have no control over and how we react and what we do with it later helps to shape us into the people we are...incidentally that's an ongoing process. I find it fascinating how often people talk of regret in their lives and what things from their youth that they wish they could take back. If I could go back, would I do it all the same? Absolutely.
I would not dare regret or take back the things, no matter how traumatic, terrible, or ridiculous, that happened in my life because those things are exactly why I am who I am. I love who I am, I can finally say that! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the person I have become and the person I see myself becoming and to take back anything that created this person would be blasphemy.
*On a side note: I find it important to mention that there are somethings some people maybe should regret...murder? yeah, so some things yes, but in this I'm speaking in particular of the transgressions of youth*
Post Song: Low Flying Owls - Glad to be Alive
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