posted on April 22, 2001 05:59:03 AM new
With the benefit of hindsight what would be the one most significant thing you would have done differently with your life?
Personally there are probably many things and many regrets, but then again if I had of done different things I might not have the things I have now. My wife, my kids and my family.
Someone asked this question of me today. I still don't know if I can answer it.
posted on April 22, 2001 06:15:45 AM new
This is a very deep question, and I am not sure how to answer it properly.
I do have regrets for things that have happened to me and my family, but I am not sure they can be changed even if we wanted too. My biggest regret is the suffering my daughter has been through all her life, with a cronic renal condition. That is something that I dearly wish I could change, but I know in my heart it is meant to be, for whatever reason. Maybe it was to teach me compassion and tolerance, because it has.
Maybe it was to teach me to be stronger, it has certainly made me a much stronger person in my own right.
On the whole I can not complain, I have a husband that loves me, and three great kids'.
I guess if there was one major thing that could have been done differently, I wish I had of put more away earlier for our retirement. But then again, if I had of done that, we would not have been able to afford our daughter's medical treatments.
posted on April 22, 2001 06:53:53 AM new
I would have gone to grad school instead of being practical and going to work after college. I love theory, I loved school, and someday plan to go back. But it's a bit harder once you've lived on a real salary than I think it would have been back when I was used to the whole "starving student" thing.
posted on April 22, 2001 07:04:29 AM new
{{{{nettak & your daughter}}}}
Looking at my life with 20/20 hindsight. I wouldn't make any significant changes from the way my adult life has gone, and I couldn't have changed the way my childhood went, those decisions weren't mine to make. I feel very fortunate (blessed) with the direction my life has taken, so....no, I wouldn't change a thing.
posted on April 22, 2001 08:08:12 PM new
The only thing that I would have liked to change in my life - Marrying my first husband. But because I did, I have two very lovely children, for that I thank him.
My second regret - not having a child to my second husband.
posted on April 24, 2001 08:56:03 AM new
Wasting money and using charge cards for unnecessary things. Finally got wiser and am slowly getting it all paid off but what a STUPID, STUPID thing to do. Everyone needs to waste money occasionally, just for S&G But waste money you have in your hand, do not mortgage your future.AND WORST OF ALL, DO NOT CHARGE YOUR GROCERY BILLS. IT MAKES YOUR FOOD SO EXPENSIVE!!!
[ edited by curlectables on Apr 24, 2001 08:58 AM ]
posted on April 24, 2001 11:20:52 AM new
I wish I had finished college. But if doing so would have changed things so that I had not met my husband, well, then I'm glad to remain a dumb blonde.
