Living life with no regrets

I read an article recently about some woman who lives her life every day and doesn't regret a thing. Example - she has many tattoos that she doesn't and don't she will ever regret. She dyes her mohawked hair pink, and has no qualms about it. She doesn't even regret having kids and being this kind of parent.

Am I the only one who sees something wrong with living your life with no regrets? I think it's ignorant and immature. It seems to be a fast-growing trend among people (mostly girls) my age. They say "I live my life with no regrets and I couldn't be happier!" If you ask me, regretting mistakes you've made is the only way to learn and to grow.

You can't possibly tell me that 20 years from now, every girl my age with a tribal tramp stamp tattoo is going to say they didn't regret getting it. You can't say that you have no regrets in life if you slept with someone who has gential herpes. I think living life with no regrets is a stupid trend, and saying you live a life with no regrets is basically lying to yourself. What makes me sick is that these people think they are better than everyone else. Sure, they're happy now, but what about in the future? You can't be 19 forever.

Me? I regret plenty, including wasting my first year of college as an art major, so now I need to double up on classes to meet requirements so I don't become a super senior. I regret passing up a great girlfriend opportunity a few years ago to hold out for someone my friend thought was cool. I regret busting my friend's lip open by mistake yesterday at work.

And you know what? I've learned from them and all of my regrets. What about you, GFF?

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by PUG1911

This is a tough one. Living with regret for a long period of time is bad, as mentioned by Sassafrass and others.

Agreed. I don't dwell on shit, per se. When I think of regretting something, I think of making a bad decision and accept it as a bad decision.

The biggest subject of regret for people my age, I think, is tattoos. Everyone's like "I won't regret this when I'm older," but I'll bet dimes to dollars that they will, especially the dumb sluts that get tramp stamps. I'm the kind of guy who regrets bad decisions, like screwing up relationships with people, hurting people, hurting myself, and so forth. If I didn't regret these things, how would I learn from them and grow as a person?

This is why I think the whole "living with no regrets" thing is such a load of 20-something trendy bullshit. They just say this to feel less guilty about doing things that poison their bodies like binge drinking 3 nights a week. I get drunk on special occasions only. Getting drunk often (hell, once a week is often in my book) takes all the fun and all the pleasure away from getting wasted. Plus, I plan on going places that involve using my brain, so I need to preserve these brain cells while I have them. What's one night of drinking to an entire future of being intelligent and not some dumbass working at a supermarket their whole life?

There's nowhere I can't reach.