Day to Day happenings in my life

Regret

Prompt:
"I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them."
Kevin Costner
Do you often regret things and what do you do about your feelings of regret, if you have any?

If someone who has lived as long as I have says they have no regrets, then I wouldn’t believe them.
I have many regrets, but who knows how my life would have turned out if I’d not done, said, or behaved in the manner in which I did.
It’s all those sliding door moments of “what if?” We also have no idea of all the tragedies we’ve avoided by taking a certain path.

I do regret not fulfilling my potential at school. This was because I was needed to be at home to look after an ailing mother.

I often wonder how my life might have been different if I didn’t emigrate to Australia from England? Would I have stayed in my marriage? I don’t think I would have done as we weren’t getting on well at that time. Coming to a country where we knew no one made us pull together as one cohesive unit .

Wishing things had turned out differently is a waste of energy. They might have been better but they could have been much worse.