Honest,.. Year end Regrets of a general Nature - What R Yours?

I regret having my mother-in-law's husband do lots of "free" renovations in my house earlier in February.

Due to his "f$%@#^$#ck ups", I ended up NOT having a kitchen for 8 months, and paying about an extra $4000 in repairing the work he screwed up, as well as losing another $8000 worth of damages to a flood he caused by sweeping construction material into my drain pipe.

 

I regret not talking to some fine (and in some cases, very special) people on these boards sooner.

As for real life -- no regrets. Nevah!

 

I don't really regret anything. You're not supposed to imo.

Live and learn. And do it all over again.

 

Great minds and all

 

By being ignorant to it

The regret may be there, however, we all have much more important 'current' affairs that should be in the forefront -- drowning out the regret to the point of nonexistence

You asked; I waffled

 

Every year I strive for, and get a little bit better, at walking into the new year with very little regret about the year gone past. I've become much better at not letting opportunities go by when they present themselves, or at least choosing the ones that I don't mind letting past. I've become much better at giving the people I care about in my life enough quality time and affection and letting them know that I love them. And, I've become much better at realizing a healthy work-life balance. Can we always do more? Absolutely. Do we always have minor regrets that fade from the memory with time over the course of the year? Sure. But the major regrets, the ones that last and stick in the mind, I've done a good job of mitigating and am now at a point where I have no real regrets to speak of going into 2008 other than not finally finishing that book I've been writing. Not a bad place to be from my perspective.

jag

 

Don't really have any regrets, sure there are some things I wished went differently. However, I accomplished my two big goals of '07, getting a new job and completing a half marathon, so I got that going for me, which is nice. Now gotta think about those 2008 goals.

 

I regret losing the girl.
I regret missing some chances.
I regret letting my passion dictate my direction and thus causing some career pain.
I regret assuming life gets easier as you go.
I regret I was not born to a rich and powerful family

All things that can be remedied ('cept the last one) so I'll just work on it.

Here's to 2008

 

I regret letting him do the "free" work, which ended up costing me more if I had paid someone to do it.

And because he's my Mom-in-law's husband, I have to be "fake nice" to him...



But you are right... time to look ahead and move on with life.

 

well its too bad you can't change the past .

 

I have no regrets.
A year ago I was an alcoholic, drinking about a pint of whiskey and a bottle or two of wine every other day.

I went into an Intensive Outpatient Alcohol Addiction Treatment Program that was perfectly suited to me...and now, on January 22nd, it'll be a year without drinking, and I have no desire to ever drink again.

As a result, my whole life has improved in ways I never could've imagined only a year ago. I'm the same person, but a totally different person, excited to be alive and sober every day, so far.
It's easy not to drink, because my life is so much better.
But I was stuck in that compulsive cyclical drinking for like, over ten years, and I don't even regret that time on that dark, dangerous path.

 

well im glad you were able to overcome that wilhelm . to battle a major addiction for a year and be on the winning side is a big accomplishment.
i think if we look at the positive aspects of our life it overshadows the regret and mistakes.

 

Not Getting Laid.


Still a Virgin in 08

 

Well, it's nothing as lofty as the space program being squelched and not being able to live on the moon. More like going out with a girl I liked and her "wanting to just be friends instead", can't really call it a regret because I don't regret going out with her or anything and I'm not the one who made the decision, but it would've been cool if things went differently though.

 

No, I do regret the effects of my Christianity, but I believe, from the title, this thread is about stuff from the past year, and I've been well free of Christianity for quite a while now.


In fact, it's sad because just by chance, my Mom is an alcoholic too, and she finally got so bad that she went into a program, on her own, shortly after I did, without even hearing that I was in one.

Mine was based on facts, science, and they never brought God into it, and I depended on my own strength to overcome the early cravings and get sane again.

My Mom went with an A.A. style approach, where you depend on God's strength, and anything good in your life is because of God, while all bad things in your life are your fault...constant prayer, and service, etc.

And she relapsed 3 weeks after she got out of her program, and went back in...she's blown $40,000 and endless hours of prayer and study of the Bible and the Big Book and A.A. meetings and she's had no success, while I've been sober for almost a year, she couldn't even make it one month.