What’s your biggest regret? How would your
life have been different if you’d made another decision?
I was looking back through the rest of the prompts for the year because
I thought I had answered one like this before, but I can’t find the exact post
I was thinking of, so if I repeat myself for this one, forgive me. My memory is not as good as it used to be.
As far as regrets go, I don’t live my life in terms of regret. It’s not
that there aren’t things I might have done different if I had the ability or
maturity at the time to do so, but I’m more comfortable living the life I have
now. Considering how my life could have
been different, if let’s say, I didn’t get married and move to Kwajalein
(knowing heartache and divorce would follow), I get nervous. I can’t imagine a more challenging and wisdom
giving experience than my time in the Marshalls, and I wouldn’t have met the
love of my life if I hadn’t made the choice to move to there in the first
place. And this is just two of the
reasons why I wouldn’t want to change the choices I made back then because
there’s my children, my educational and career path, the lifelong friends I
made, and my very fulfilling volunteer adventures. These would have all been
very different experiences if I had remained in the states. There are times in my life when immediately
after I wish I had said or done something differently, but later on, I learned
from those times and became a better wife, mother, employee, manager, and daughter
because of the mistakes I made and grew from.
So, regrets, not exactly. I do
wish sometimes I had learned some of life’s lessons a little earlier or under
different circumstances, but I don’t truly have any real regrets, just insight
from my mistakes.
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