This I Believe...

I hear people talking about "living life without regrets" and I'm always wondering what

they really mean by that. Do they mean to say they have never done something that they wish

they could take back or that they wish they had done something that they hadn't? Living life

without regrets is almost impossible, they might not be huge regrets, but everybody has them.

Besides, when people go around advertising that they don't have any regrets it makes people

like me question whether they really do live life without regrets or not.

I know firsthand that I have regrets, and like I said they don't have to be big and mine

aren't big but I have them. There are so many times that friends have invited me out to places

and I have turned them down, and then the next morning I wake up really wishing I would have

gone. I've also skipped out on saying things that I wish I could have said at an opportune

moment, because when you don't say things right then and there, there sometimes isn't another

time to say them.

I believe that living life without regrets is not fully living life. I believe that people don't

fully think about the statement before they say it, and that they are denying the inevitable. We

go through each day wishing we had or hadn't done something. We all make mistakes and that

is nothing to be ashamed of because they are learning experiences, and those learning

experiences are what define us as people. In the words of Hannah Montana "Everybody makes

mistakes, Everybody has those days, Everybody knows what what I'm talkin' 'bout, Everybody

gets that way... Nobody's perfect! I got to work it, again and again 'til I get it right, Nobody's

perfect! you live and you learn it..." That’s right, no one is perfect in this crazy world, it is

inhumanly possible. That’s okay though, because that’s just the way of life. We live life and base

our decisions off of past mistakes that we have grown and learned from.