live without regrets

The end of regretting, that is. Haha. I do exactly the opposite of this goal. I live each day in the past, fixating on mistakes I’ve made, missed opportunities, fears that held me back from achieving my dreams (no matter how big or small they were)... I am constantly regretting. Even when I achieve something great, I minimize it’s importance. Forget about it’s importance to anyone else, but rather it’s importance to me and my life journey. I don’t see the positive in my personal achievements. I need to stop living in the past. I need to stop regretting missed opportunities because when I’m focusing on the past, I’m missing out on today’s opportunities! And that just fuels this cycle of regret, which is absolutely RIDICULOUS. I have to reprogram my mind, learn how to live for today, seizing the opportunities that today brings, forgetting about yesterday’s mistakes. Now is the time to change my outlook, because I absolutely cannot continue to live this way! This is not living.

ive done this after reading a book by Carlos Castaneda!

So far I’ve been reasonably successful. Right now I can legitimately count only two things I truly regret, and one of those was still necessary to make me who I am, and taught me more about myself than if I hadn’t done it. I suppose I do value the experience, even though I wish I hadn’t made that choice. Here’s hoping I can remember to live this way forever. Regrets are a waste of effort that could be better spent doing something new and amazing.

be where I am today. Why regret how I got here? There is nothing you can do about it or take back. Move on…

I get so angry with myself for not having made better past choices so that I could be in a different place right now in my life… I find it hard to get away from those thoughts. Maybe thinking more of the past allows me to find excuses in the present for procrastination and fear or future failure…like a protective ego response…I want to snap out of it and only think of improving my future by acting on the present.

Life is like a coin…. You can spend it any way you like but you can only spend it once……..

Once I came to the realization that everything happens the way it’s supposed to, I became a much happier person.
Whichever path you choose, is the right one, simply because you chose it.
There’s no way of changing it, so it is what it is.

.. I don’t have many regrets. Despite the worst screw-ups, given time, every cloud has a silver lining. My life is hardly utopia, but I’ve taken my chances.. still living and breathing to tell the tale.

..but I wanted to see if anyone has any comments on this.

I realized this morning (oddly while I was putting on make-up), that we like other people, not because of who they are, but more of how they make us feel. Maybe this sounds weird, but looking back, I realized.. the people whom I clicked with, the connection occurs because interacting with them made me feel good. Of course in time you learn to appreciate their qualities too (good and otherwise). But if we made friends based on how others make us feel about ourselves, does that mean all our friendships are motivated by selfish reasons?

And if I go out of my way to put people at ease when interacting with me, would it mean that my friends wouldn’t be my friends if I am not capable of making them feel good about themselves?

I don’t know why this popped up in my head when it did, but apparently it’s significant enough at least to me, to make me wanna ponder on it a bit more.

i knew wut i did over in iraq. i’m not sure if any of our soldiers should be there anymore, cuz it’s never gonna stop. we’re never gonna win.
But i will do it again if i’m asked to do so. i don’t regret any of my time spent there and personally…i wanna go back, just to fight