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What’s your biggest regret?
My biggest fear is laying there, about to die, and regretting the things I didn’t do because fear held me back. I know this sounds corny, I know you’ve heard this in too many motivational videos to count, but this is something I’m genuinely always thinking about.
3 Answers
- KherovaLv 73 years agoFavorite Answer
But you have to take a single large step back and look at this. You could live your best life, and you still would not have done certain things, or may imagine how things could have gone differently. I don't think there is a perfect scenario here, so you really shouldn't sweat it too much. No matter what you have done, or wished you would have, there will still be an infinite amount of experience beyond your grasp. Instead of being terrifying, that is liberating in a way. It means you shouldn't drive yourself crazy trying to collect a certain number of things/experiences to try and fill out a score card. Instead, identify just a couple of things that really would bug you if you didn't do them, and do them. Let all the little ones go, because they are pretty much equal to all the other little things in life. Think about it, often people's lives don't go to plan, but they discover things they wouldn't had everything gone just like they thought. Life isn't a shopping list, it is a twisting branch that is influenced by the environment it grows in.
I would pick one or two things that you really think you might regret, and work towards those. Let the rest sort itself out, and I bet you will be fine on your deathbed. A truly lived life will have regrets, and pain, and disappointment, and that is ok. A good life is not one that never sees darkness, it's one that engages with what is there before you.
- Anonymous3 years ago
it's fear based i was to scared to be who i really am .. i wanted to fit in. and boy did i regret that. i didn't speak to the people i wanted to i didn't say the things i really meant. i wanted to feel acepted so i blended in. i regreated that so much. not being me. not apperciating my special things that no one else but me had. it was a point of view. due to my low self worth self value and self esteem i leaned on people more than i realized at that time. and i regreat that. i regreat that i didn't thank them enought beucase i was clueless to what was going.
getting older now about to change careers. 20 years in one job is well not my idea of what i wanted yet i'm just realizing all this regreat stuff. luckly i'm only middled age so i can still fix it!
- THE BANNIBAL ONELv 73 years ago
The biggest regret is trusting people close to me to do what's right.