My Regrets

"If there was one thing you could do over in life, what would it be?"

That was what my manager asked me today when we were at lunch.

My manager took me to lunch today because I made him a bet earlier in the month and I won. Whoever won got free lunch. muhahaha...me.

So we were eating, and chatting, and my manager asked me, if I could do anything over in life what would it be...I sat there and I thought for a second.

Nothing came to me. This surprised me a little.

So I dug a little deeper into my life.

Nothing.

I looked at him perplexed and with a shrug of my shoulders said "I don't know." He smiled and said, "Come on. There's gotta be something." In an effort to not look like I was just lying or covering up all my huge mistakes in life, I did another quick scan of my life.

Still nothing.

"Yeah, I really got nothing." I told him.

"Wow" was all he said to me and then proceeded to tell me something that he regretted doing in his past.

As lunch went on I pondered this thought. It really surprised me that I couldn't think of something. I figured I must just be overlooking the huge elephant in the room, so to speak, and had forgotten some huge, disastrous thing that I had done. But soon enough, lunch ended and we went back to work. But I kept thinking. I pondered on this for the rest of the day. I scanned over the major and not so major events in my life. I kept asking myself...

Do I regret...

• Joining the church?
• Falling in love?
• Not doing more homework?
• Not making better grades?
• Not going to grad school?
• Studying Interior Design?
• Switching my major (more than once)?
• Moving to Texas?
• Working at the bank?
• Any of my roommates?
• How I have spent money?
• The boys I have dated?
• Going to BYU-I?
• Going to Purdue?
• Taking out my endowments?
• Road trips I have been on?
• Going to Maine?
• Saying no to marriage (to the wrong person)?
• Never drinking?
• Never doing drugs?
• Choosing my standards over the newest boy in my life?

...No. I regret none of them. Some were hard decisions. Some I cried over for months. Some of them broke my heart. But...I will say that I have learned something from all of them. I am a relatively good person (I think) and I feel like these decisions have shaped who I am today. And that's not too shabby.

As the day went on I thought to myself how blessed I really am. I have no major regrets in life. Sure, I could have been nicer at times. Could have held my tongue instead of making a stupid comment. I could have worked harder. Smiled at people more. Little things. I certainly am not without fault or flaws, but overall I feel like I have done life pretty good so far. Yea, me! And I wonder how many people can truly say that about life. I feel like it is more rare than I think. At that moment when I realized I couldn't think of any regrets, I felt overwhelmingly grateful that I have had the life I did and made the decision I have. It was another rare glimpse at the green grass that is on my side of the fence. I feel like Heavenly Father is showing me this side more and more often. And I am grateful.

Do you regret anything?