As I sat down and had a coffee with my parents recently, my Mother said something I would have never expected to hear from her.
She started talking about the things she would have liked to have done when she and my Dad were younger.
Going back to Italy was one thing she would have liked to have done more often, but there was always something stopping her from getting on a plane and visiting her family. They didn’t make the time and put in the effort that was needed to head back home.
It seems we all have regrets of sorts. Sometimes it’s what we have done or said, and then there are times when we wished we hadn’t done or expressed our feelings to the ones closest to us in our lives.
But no matter which situation we have gone through, we will always have some regrets. There is no magic pill to help us out with our regrets, we need to deal with them head on.
If it’s something we have said, we can always apologise. And if it’s something we have done and have hurt others, do something for them that shows you do care and try to move forward.
Then there are the regrets that linger over us like a dark cloud. They are the ones we need to work on the most.
But as we get older we learn and grow, but that doesn’t mean we have to regret what we did before we learned how to do things differently. If we didn’t go through those experiences, we might not have grown into the strong and knowledgeable people we are today.
Without regrets it may mean we may not be in the place we are now. For better or worse.
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