How do YOU deal with REGRET?
I am tearing myself up inside!
I am not one of those people who claim to have no regrets, not by a longshot. I don’t understand how people can say that! That is why I need some help.
I have ALOT of regrets, I know that none of them may be life threatening, therefore they are not a “huge” deal, but they do matter to me and impact my life everyday. I mean, every little decision is life changing and I have made some decisions that I would love to re-decide…this is not an uncommon human wish, just think of the average sci-fi movie with a time travel machine!
My main regret that I have to face all the time is this:
In 2001, a new dance crew started. It was so easy to go to, I could have done it, in fact I did for a little while. Dance made me the happiest I have ever been in my life.
After awhile, I stuck with my friends and soccer and stopped doing dance, I have no idea why (this is obviously where the regret comes into play).
Literally all the time I would miss dance, but I never really made the connection that that was what I was missing/it would be soo easy to join back up.
I guess I was mainly scared, I felt it would be too late to join, felt I would not be as good as the other kids.
Finally, almost 8 years later I have gotten up the courage to join dance again with the same crew, but of course I have missed out on all the performances and competitions, travels etc. and I am not nearly as good or as young as the rest of the dancers.
Now I only have a few years left to be in this crew and it just kills me that I could have had this amazing thing in my life all this time!
I feel so grateful to have finally found my passion, especially at a young age, but that does not heal the fact that I have missed out on so much, thrown away so much potential talent…
So how do you deal with regret? How should I? Can anyone relate? Does anyone have any type of regret of their own? How do you deal with it?
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