Thursday, October 7, 2010

Day 5

Day Five: Six things you wish you could change or you wish you’d never done.


{one}
I wish I could change my involvement in sports in high school and college.  I love to run.  I really started to enjoy swimming while training for my triathlon.  I feel like I missed out on something I would have really enjoyed.

{two}
Sometimes I wish I wouldn't open my big fat mouth.  I am the type of person that needs to air their grievances.  But then, I'm usually over it.  Sometimes there are issues that are better left unspoken at the time.  BUT I find instant relief in speaking it.  Then I don't hold it in and grow angry while mulling it over.  But sometimes, it's selfish to do that.  Just sometimes...

{three}
I regret allowing some things to make me angry that were never worth it.  It created problems for a while that were never worth it.  But, I feel like I've learned to let a lot of things go and my relationships are healthier because of it.

{four}
I wish I traveled after I graduated college.  Instead, I started working the next Monday.  I look back and think how perfect that time was to explore a few places before the commitment of a career.  A warning to my friends and family...I will be advising this to your kids :)

{five}
I wish I hadn't graduated college so quickly.  There is plenty of time for the 'real world'.

{six}
I wish I hadn't fought with my mom like I did in high school.  There were many reasons we didn't see eye to eye, but I could have handled it all a lot better.

2 comments:

Amber said...

I always find these posts so difficult. It's hard to look back over your life and choose things you wish you had done differently - especially when we are taught to be positive. But I think it's helpful because we can avoid making the same mistakes in the future.

I too wish I hadn't taken myself so seriously right after I graduated. Why was I so ready to enter the real world!?!?!

Unknown said...

These ARE tough...It's hard to say I would have done anything different or changed anything because all my 'bad' decisions and wrong turns brought me to where I am now -- married to an amazing man and friends to beautiful, strong and inspriring ladies =) {pst -- you're one of them =)}
I do wish I wouldn't let my feelings get the best of me and that i didn't get so upset about *ahem* certain things =/ oh well -- live and learn! =)