How many regrets sound familliar to you?
- Saying hurtful words during a heated argument.
- Placing too much value on things.
- Being too committed to a job.
- Focusing so much on the future that you forget to live.
- Not showing up when invited.
- Discouraging others from following their dreams.
- Using the word love when you don’t mean it.
- Taking too few pictures of life’s happy moments.
- Not listening during the know-it-all phase.
- Holding a grudge.
- Being too prideful to say “I’m sorry.”
- Being too afraid to take a chance.
- Accepting others beliefs as your own.
- Crying over spilled milk.
- Speaking faster than you think.
- Overprotecting children.
- Neglecting friends for lovers.
- Acting based on past hurts and pains.
- Gossiping.
- Telling lies.
- Doing anything that you have to lie about.
- Being an enabler.
- Tossing out memories of past relationships.
- Choosing a job or career for the wrong reasons.
- Neglecting your body.
- Not speaking up.
- Losing sight of the fact that life is supposed to be fun.
- Not expressing your feelings to loved ones.
- Holding back the tears.
- Saying yes when you want to say no.
- Borrowing things that you can’t pay back.
- Not caring for your elderly parents the same way they cared for you.
- Following all the rules.
- Sticking to the plan.
- Not saying thank you.
- Taking for granted those dearest to your heart.
- Impulse shopping.
- Trying to do it all.
- Worrying too much.
- Remaining in a relationship for the kids (or for money, security, etc).
- Knowingly causing harm to another person (emotionally or physically).
- Forgetting to take care of your inner self.
- Giving up.
- Leaving (jobs, relationships, family) on bad terms.
- Teaching children what to think instead of teaching them how to think.
- Jumping into a relationship because of everything you like about a person.
- Sheltering your heart too much after it has been broken.
- Only doing what seems rational.
- Betraying a friend.
- Making promises that you cannot, or will not, keep.
