Poll | 05/20/2009 11:00 pm

Where do you stand on regret?

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Only a few regrets. I have had a good life. Many tragedies early in my life. I wish that I had made an effort to like my "Wicked" stepmother who came into our lives after my mom died when I was 13 leaving 5 children for my 40 year old father to raise. She turned out to be a good woman who made a long successful life with my father.

The other regret connected to that is that I wish I had been nicer to my mother as teen-agers often can be mean without even knowing it. In that regard I regret that after she died no one ever discussed the circumstance with we children. I would have asked more questions.

Other wise I picked the perfect career for me. I had a good marriage and many many very good friends and acquaintances plus children I love and still do.

By katywon LA.. on 05/21/2009 12:58 am

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Like Katywon and Frank Sinatra said……"regrets, I have a few, but then again, too few to mention"

By Becky R on 05/21/2009 12:18 pm

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i used to wish i could go back in time and change things like that england dan and john ford coley song. but i have learned that EVERYTHING happens for a reason and most of those reasons have lessons behind them. so i roll with the punches and hope for the best. learning something new everyday has taught me more than school ever did and yes, it was the school of hard knocks. but it taught me how to survive. i think everybody should have to struggle sometime in their lives to appreciate what they have or don’t have.

By Nancy Pea on 05/21/2009 12:58 am

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I tend to agree with you. Life is what it is and what we make it and without some sort of struggle how would we know different.

By Laurie Deer on 05/21/2009 5:09 am

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those that always get what they want, when they want tend to take everything for granted and life doesn’t teach them a darn thing. plus i would figure going back to change it would just put it off til later b/c fate is a bitch about stuff like that anyway.

By Nancy Pea on 05/21/2009 1:00 pm

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Regrets are those shoulda woulda coulda thiings. Negative thoughts and a waste of time. Choices made at the time and choices we make on a daily and minute to minute basis. Live large and do daring things. Never live for regrets. Just hurts yourself.

By Denise L on 05/21/2009 1:25 am

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Denise, I agree with you. We make decisions in our lives based on the facts we have at that one point in time. Experience in living and making choices gives us wisdom. Our wisdom can help us to review a situation but can never insert greater knowledge after-the-fact. It is important to give ourselves credit for trying our best and that attitude leaves no room for regret.

By Green Tears on 05/21/2009 10:03 am

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Agreed, Denise, my dear. We have only one life, don’t we dahling?

By Mommy Dearest on 05/21/2009 10:07 am

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I think regrets are fill-ins until we learn to let go, and move forward once we recognize our inner selves, and delight in the discovery. Negativity doesn’t bother me in the least, because it moves me to a different plateau. Of course, some things could have been different, perhaps, and perhaps not. I’m not so sure.

By C jay on 05/21/2009 2:40 am

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Any regrets are very minor, so I have to say "No regrets". Life is a journey, different roads, detours, adventures..some enjoyable, some not. Regrets serve as much a purpose as achievements- the lessons learned while on your journey. I have been blessed with far more achievements than regrets.

By Dee T on 05/21/2009 5:05 am

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My theme song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5gpBncR8zI

By Sam Mirando on 05/21/2009 6:42 am

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now where can those among us that do not know a lick of french go to get the translation to the song. she certainly has a lovely voice. she looks like somebody from the 40’s or at least her style. i really like it. thanx for sharing! (i just want to know what the song says tho)

By Nancy Pea on 05/21/2009 1:05 pm

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Edith Piaf was very famous but I couldn’t find an "official" translation, so here’s mine (without the repeated refrain)…

No, nothing, nothing at all,

I don’t regret anything at all.

Not the good things people have done to me,

Nor the bad; it’s all the same to me.

It’s all paid for, swept away and forgotten.

I don’t give a damn about the past.

I’ve made a bonfire of my memories,

My miseries, my pleasures - I don’t need them any more.

I’ve swept away my past loves,

Swept them away for ever. I’m starting from scratch again.

I regret nothing because my life and my joy, today, begins with you!

By Sam Mirando on 05/21/2009 1:21 pm

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interesting. i guess she is burying EVERYTHING. i like to keep my memories, i feel i learn from them. but pretty song anyway!

By Nancy Pea on 05/21/2009 3:00 pm

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I wish I had put more effort into my education! I was a half-a$$ed student in high school and college but now that I’m a teacher…….. well, there you have it. That being said, I have been blessed in many other ways, so in the grand scheme of things, I guess I have a few very minor regrets! Is this the part where we all start singing "My Way"?????

By Danielle Edwards on 05/21/2009 6:45 am