Regrets

I don’t have any.  Are there things I would have done differently looking back?  Hm, maybe yes and maybe no.

This week on The Biggest Loser, when Tracy was eliminated, she was asked if she had any regrets.  She commented, “You always have regrets.”

I take issue with that.  I truly believe that you should live your life so that you have no regrets.  Even if you do something that you wish you hadn’t done, or wish you could do differently, you still shouldn’t have regrets.

Are there things that I look back and think, “Would I do the same thing if I had it to do all over again?”  Sure.  But if I hadn’t done it that way in the first place, I wouldn’t have had a learning experience.

I used to say that there was one thing in my past that I truly regret.  I really believed that for more than 5 years.  I thought that there was no life lesson learned from it and it was truly a low point in my life.  It still was a low point in my life; but I finally learned my life lesson from it.

Do I have regrets?  I can absolutely say that I have NO regrets. I have learned from every one of my mistakes.

Do I like making mistakes?  No, who does?  I ESPECIALLY hate admitting that I was wrong.  Yet, I don’t have to admit to anyone else but me when I make a mistake; then I have to think about it and make sure that I don’t make the same mistake twice.

I can honestly say that I don’t even regret my weight gain.  Sure, I probably could have learned some of the same life lessons had I NOT gained so much weight; but the lessons I am learning now and some of the experiences I am having through this…well, I can’t take that away.  It’s changed who I am as a person.

If I could go back and do it again would I change things?  Yeah, probably.  But I can’t do that.  I can only live life forward.  I can only change the future.  So really, regretting things is just a waste of time.

Fixing the future?  Well, that’s well worth it and I am loving the future I am making for myself now.