I don’t like the word ‘regret’. To me, a regret is something that you should have done, could have done - a missed opportunity to change something fundamental and when you remember it you feel uncomfortable and uneasy. Life is too short and too precious to taint your memories with regret.
There are so many things I could regret: I might have chosen a different degree; I could have chosen the people that I have spent time with more carefully; I could have followed a different career path; I probably shouldn’t have had that slice of cheesecake last night. If I hadn’t made the choices that I’ve made and walked along this path in life I would be a different person, in a different place. All the threads of my life, good and bad, weave together the person that I am today and I don’t regret the things that I have done and the choices I have made. Take life as it comes and when the thunderstorms come see the lightning flash, hear the thunder rumble through your bones, feel the rain lash your skin, feel the wind sting your eyes. Wait. Watch the darkness. One day the sun will eventually creep from behind the clouds and the weathering of each storm makes you wiser, more determined and stronger than you were before.
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Wow, that is really powerful stuff! Brilliantly written.
Nikki Thomas recently posted…No Regrets
Thanks Nikki, I was suddenly inspired by Sandy and it wrote itself. I wish that happened every day!
Brilliant writing!!
You’re right! Life is too short for regrets!!
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Oh what a fantastic piece of writing, so powerful. I have tears in my eyes, I think because I realise how right you are. I need to let go of my regrets and accept that the threads of my life brought me to where I am today, because I love where I am today x
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Thank you Sandy, that means a lot. Don’t regret, accept! It takes time, I know x
hannah says
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Life is just way, way too short to have regrets especially as we can build up so many ‘should have dones’.
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I wouldn’t even know where to start with that list. Much easier to look ahead 🙂
Chrissie M says
I love the use of the unpredictability of the weather as a metaphor for life. Brilliant and very thought provoking!
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Thank you Chrissie
Beautiful writing. You are so right to. There are some things I regret, but all the decisions I have ever made have formed me into who I am today! 🙂
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And you are so lovely Emma, even those things that you look back on and cringe at have formed the beautiful person you are now x
So true, and so beautifully written. I always try to live in the moment, and not to dwell to much on the past. As you say we would not be the person we are had different paths been taken.
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