ASHLYNN & BOSTON: Regrets...

Lately regrets have been on my mind a lot. After thinking about everything I have done in my life that "I shouldn't have done" I can truthfully say that I only have three real regrets that I have been able to come up with. With most of the things that should be considered a regret I feel fortunate that I have been able to learn from them.

In my opinion almost all of the 'mistakes' I have made are things that I wanted at the moment, they made me happy at the time. I have done things that I probably shouldn't have...but, I would probably do most of them again. I have had wild nights but I enjoyed them while they happened. I have put off doing homework and lowered a grade but I really liked catching up on Netflix in its place. The only three things I have done that I actually claim as a regret are things that have ended up hurting someone that didn't deserve to be hurt. I guess when I try to come up with my personal definition of what a regret is hurting a person I care about is the only real definition I have for it.

I know that I have done some things that are probably not the smartest things to have done but personally I like to own up to them, value the lesson I learned from them and move on from them not focusing on if or how I should have handled myself. I guess it's easier to take the good from the experience of it rather than harboring to the 'what-if's' of it. No regrets, just lessons learned. It's kind of like that saying that an entire sea of water can't sink a ship unless int gets inside of the ship... regrets and negativity can't get you down unless you get inside of you.

Who know's though... if in 30 years someone were to ask me if I have regrets maybe I will spout off a dozen in the first few minutes. For now I am pretty okay with the choices I have made, the good and the bad, to have gotten me what I am going. Sometimes our lives need to be shaken up and rearranged to get us to where we are supposed to me.

XO:
Ashlynn

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