Originally Posted by KK85

Very much this, for me, too.

I'm only 32, but I'm learning that the horrible, big stuff isn't always that big or horrible when I look back. I made some pretty reckless decisions in my younger years, and had some opportunities taken from me due to ill health, but I'm now making up for lost time. I left school at 14 with no qualifications, and flailed my way through dead-end jobs thereafter, but this year I graduated from university with 1st class honours and two academic awards. I've had a horrible boyfriend or two (and some wonderful ones) but am now married to a kind, funny, intelligent, wonderful man. I was treated for anxiety and depression for fourteen years and truly believed I would never be 'better', and that was arguably my toughest challenge, but I've been happy and healthy for several years and I honestly wouldn't change or erase any of the nasty ones. They taught me a lot.

I try to find a silver lining or at least a lesson in everything, especially the challenges. I'm a more patient, empathetic and level-headed person because of them. Regrets are suffocating! It's nice to live without them, if you can, I reckon.

Originally Posted by fakey

I would do most of what I did, again. Except more so. In fact, I would love to do most of what I did, again.
What I do regret is the failure of my marriage.
And also I regret wasting so much time, largely wasted being pi##ed off about utter trivialities.

Originally Posted by johnwoo

I'm pretty much satisfied the way things turned out, a few things I once regretted don't seem such a big deal anymore. Some thing that seemed like a bad decision at the time turned out for the better.

Who knows if we had taken a different path how things would have turn out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFtGfyruroU

Originally Posted by fakey

I would do most of what I did, again. Except more so. In fact, I would love to do most of what I did, again.