what if you died in the next 5 minutes

I hear what you're saying, but the fact is, although everyone would like to take something back that they've done, what good is it to regret? You can't take it back, so it is wasting precious time to sit and feel guilty about it.

So that you are reminded of why you shouldn't have done it in the first place and should never do it again. To turn the "Well, it's made me who I am," logic around, what if someone was contemplating doing a terrible thing and decided to do it because "It'll make me a better person?" Making mistakes doesn't make you a better person if you refuse to accept that what you did was wrong, and that's exactly what not regretting a mistake is.

I'm not saying you should spend the rest of your life in agony and thinking you are worthless because you once did something stupid. I just think it shows an incredible lack of emotional maturity to say you wouldn't change anything about your past because it made you who you are today. Maybe you could've been someone better if you hadn't done so many stupid things.

Having lost my brother two weeks ago, I find this topic morbid and complete out of place, even in the Chit-Chat section.

I'm very sorry for your loss.

I don't think Gramps knew about that, though. I suspect he was just trying to get people thinking.

I have no regrets - I'm a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kinda girl, and if I want something, or want to do something...I just do it! Life is an amazing gift!

To MYPROGRESS2010 - I am so very sorry for your loss xx

Never experiencing real love

Not eating the effen donut! Lmao!

Other than that I don't regret anything.

I like this topic, but there is no way that I can top the first response. Add me to the "no regrets" list, but I guess I would take a minute to reflect that I didn't live long enough for science to figure out immortality.
-wtk

Having lost my brother two weeks ago, I find this topic morbid and complete out of place, even in the Chit-Chat section.

I'm very sorry for your loss.

I don't think Gramps knew about that, though. I suspect he was just trying to get people thinking.

I too am sorry for your loss, but this is not personally edged towards you or anyone in specific. It is not morbid we are merely looking back on our life and into our future to see what we would regret that way we can make every minute, day, week better because of it!

i think some people need to realize death is a part of life. i hate losing loved ones more than anything but it happens. Im sorry for anyones loss.

It would depend on how I died. I may not have time to think about regrets. And even if I had time to think about them it wouldn't matter either way. I could have all the regrets in the world but when my last breath goes anything I ever did or didn't do in life would no longer matter.

My biggest regret would be the possibility of not knowing how many people I took with me. Trust me.. it would be violent, assuming I knew the end was near.

I have a list and gas money just for this.

At first I laughed at this, then I thought I hope I don't live anywhere near you!

The only regret I have is not figuring out sooner that I need to do exactly what I want - for me - with the time I have. And when I "have" to do something I try to make the best of it. Yeah, sounds kinda selfish. But it took me most of my twenties to figure out that at the end of the day, it is me that matters most...Without ME in MY life, what else is there?