21-Things I No Longer Regret In Life

I was going to write about “My Biggest Regrets” but as I pondered the word “regrets” I had a change of heart. I lived most of my life in regret, blaming others for why I was where I was in my life, the things that happened to me, having a pity party, but NO MORE.

          

1. Growing up too soon, never having a childhood
2. Having been abused as a child and all the baggage that comes with it
3. Getting pregnant and giving birth to a son
4. Two failed marriages
5. Being different in looks
6. Not displaying emotions like others
7. Being unhappy, sad and without joy
8. That I had not made my first million
9. Didn’t have rich parents
10. My children were just average
11. Being born into the family I am in
12. Divorced twice and married a 3^rd time
13. The path my life has taken
14. Not having more children
15. Spending four years in college unsure of what I wanted to be
16. Short term memory due to abuse trauma
17. My mother and I not seeing eye to eye
18. Not being emotionally close to my sisters
19. Having a son as my first child
20. Close friends from childhood
21. People that love me for who I am

Some of these 21 things I had some control of, and others I had none. I was born to who I was given to, a choice that was not mine to make. Things happened along the way that revealed my shortcomings, my imperfections, my failures, yet I made it through and in spite of it, all I am glistening like a diamond. I have joy and peace now that I have released the mountain of my regrets to my creator and embraced his will for my life.  I have discovered my spiritual purpose which is without limits, and walks in a higher calling than all of the regrets, wouldas, shouldas, and couldas I encounter along my journey through life.

Read how I rose above regret number 22 (click here).