| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by NLPoliceWoman: 2:39pm On May 25, 2022 |
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| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by okuta007: 2:40pm On May 25, 2022 |
lagonovo:
Thank you! Regrets is waste of your precious time left. Stay happy, give thanks, and mentor others.
Isaiah 43:18-19 God bless you  1 Like |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Eberex(m): 2:42pm On May 25, 2022 |
Akinpedia:
When younger we make various choice's without the future in mind. Sometimes those choices bite us in our mid-life. These are some of the things one might regret when they're older.
1. *Marrying the wrong person*
When you're young, check your motives for marrying. Don't marry to copy your peers, or for social standing or out of pressure.
Marry for love and companionship, marry the right person, marry your best friend. For if you marry the wrong person or for the wrong reasons, you will have to put up with that person the rest of your life.
Things might get worse between you two; then depression, physical abuse, affairs, pain, shame, court cases, bitterness will define your mid-life years all because you chose the wrong one.
Things will get worse when children are involved. Make the right choice of a spouse when you are young.
2. *The opportunities you did not seize*
When you are younger many doors will open, you will get many chances. Many young people let these opportunities go because of fear, laziness, or pride; yet well younger and with more energy is the best time to start a venture and a name for yourself.
Some think the opportunities are too big for them. Take advantage of them or one day when you're older you will want to go back and grab those missed chances.
3. *The bridges you burned*
When we are younger, we care little for relationships, what most think about is getting money and moving up the ladder of success at all cost.
Many use and trample on people to progress, they take relationships for granted, messing up bonds, sleeping with people for personal gain.
But these bad actions will catch up with you ahead. When you will realize how empty life is without love and friends. When you will have success but no one around you or no one to trust you.
4. *The child you aborted*
You are a young lady, you get pregnant and you are scared. You take the aborting option quickly thinking of that moment then. But when you are much older, you will look back and wish you kept that baby.
When you will be rich and successful you will wish that child you gave up on would be around to enjoy the fruits of your hard work. Being a single mother doesn't mean you can't make it in life or you can't find a man in future.
5. *The child you rejected*
Young man, you impregnated a woman, she told you she's pregnant with your child. You rejected her and the baby and ran. But years later when you're 50 something, you will wish you were responsible, you will wish you manned up and became a father to that child.
You will see that child excel and become an adult but will have no claim to that grown child who you rejected from the beginning. You will regret being a Dead Beat Dad by choice
6. *The marriage you destroyed*
So you get married to your good fiance; the first months in marriage were good but shortly after, with your money and charm, you started having affairs. You became unfaithful.
Your spouse begged you to stop, your children started hurting, your marriage was collapsing. One day when you are older, it will hit you how foolish you were to destroy the good marriage you had began to build for mere temporary thrills in affairs that did you no good. You will realize the damage you caused to your children and spouse.
7. *The God you disowned*
When you are much older you become wiser, God becomes more real as you see life in a more meaningful way. But don't wait to get older to start enjoying a relationship with God.
Know God when you are young, build your future with God. Don't be a young rebel who runs back to God when age catches up.
8. *The body you messed up*
You have only one body to live with all your life. The cigarettes, the alcohol you are abusing, the drugs you are taking, the unhealthy food you're consuming; all that will destroy you slowly.
When you are 50 and lifestyle diseases catch up with you, you will wish you took care of your body when younger, that you exercised more; but now the damage is done.
9. *The time you wasted*
The time you are wasting when younger in worry, wrong relationships, laziness, being a couch potato, giving excuses and pursuing meaningless things; you will never get it back.
10. *The dreams and talents you shelved*
Are you talented when young; are there things you love to do and you are good at them?
Nurture those talents, exploit them, don't give up even if you encounter set backs, don't give up on your dreams. If you give up, when you're older you will look at your peers who stuck to what they love and made it and think to yourself,
"That could have been me". Pursue a career, study a course you love. Don't waste years of your life in a field that doesn't fulfill you.
11 *The name you defamed*
When you are older, a legacy is very important, the value of your name is crucial. You will ask yourself what is your reputation,
what are you leaving behind?
Your legacy is a sum total of your actions since youthful days. We write our biography by how we live life everyday. When you look back your path and you see the mud you threw at your own name, the shame you attracted and the little value you have added to the world; you will regret.
12. *The wealth you threw away*
Are you riding on good money during your productive years?
Earning good money?
Don't throw away that money in clubs, reckless living and wasteful shopping. Invest with that money, widen your revenue stream, make that money work for you and keep it safe to take care of you in your older years. Leave an inheritance for your loved ones so that you will never say "I wish I knew better"
13. *The good love that got away*
Is there that great person in your life loving you good?
Don't push that person away, or else that person will walk out your life and you will never ever find someone that incredible and who connects with you all your life. It will torment you to grow older with thoughts of "What if I was still with that person?"
14 *The parents you despised*
When younger, it is easy to show contempt to your parents; what do your parent's know?
They are old-fashioned, shady and small -minded. But your parents are still your parents whether you agree with them or not, whatever their style.
Don't let your parent die or age separated from you, reconcile and make up. When you get older, you will realize why your parents wanted to be close to you. The older you get, the more you see the value.
Time waits for no one.
Treasure every moment you have
Thanks for reading In one way or the other everyone reading this post will fall into one of the categories. As for me, i fall in more than 2 |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Etuagievin(m): 2:43pm On May 25, 2022 |
Akinpedia:
When younger we make various choice's without the future in mind. Sometimes those choices bite us in our mid-life. These are some of the things one might regret when they're older.
1. *Marrying the wrong person*
When you're young, check your motives for marrying. Don't marry to copy your peers, or for social standing or out of pressure.
Marry for love and companionship, marry the right person, marry your best friend. For if you marry the wrong person or for the wrong reasons, you will have to put up with that person the rest of your life.
Things might get worse between you two; then depression, physical abuse, affairs, pain, shame, court cases, bitterness will define your mid-life years all because you chose the wrong one.
Things will get worse when children are involved. Make the right choice of a spouse when you are young.
2. *The opportunities you did not seize*
When you are younger many doors will open, you will get many chances. Many young people let these opportunities go because of fear, laziness, or pride; yet well younger and with more energy is the best time to start a venture and a name for yourself.
Some think the opportunities are too big for them. Take advantage of them or one day when you're older you will want to go back and grab those missed chances.
3. *The bridges you burned*
When we are younger, we care little for relationships, what most think about is getting money and moving up the ladder of success at all cost.
Many use and trample on people to progress, they take relationships for granted, messing up bonds, sleeping with people for personal gain.
But these bad actions will catch up with you ahead. When you will realize how empty life is without love and friends. When you will have success but no one around you or no one to trust you.
4. *The child you aborted*
You are a young lady, you get pregnant and you are scared. You take the aborting option quickly thinking of that moment then. But when you are much older, you will look back and wish you kept that baby.
When you will be rich and successful you will wish that child you gave up on would be around to enjoy the fruits of your hard work. Being a single mother doesn't mean you can't make it in life or you can't find a man in future.
5. *The child you rejected*
Young man, you impregnated a woman, she told you she's pregnant with your child. You rejected her and the baby and ran. But years later when you're 50 something, you will wish you were responsible, you will wish you manned up and became a father to that child.
You will see that child excel and become an adult but will have no claim to that grown child who you rejected from the beginning. You will regret being a Dead Beat Dad by choice
6. *The marriage you destroyed*
So you get married to your good fiance; the first months in marriage were good but shortly after, with your money and charm, you started having affairs. You became unfaithful.
Your spouse begged you to stop, your children started hurting, your marriage was collapsing. One day when you are older, it will hit you how foolish you were to destroy the good marriage you had began to build for mere temporary thrills in affairs that did you no good. You will realize the damage you caused to your children and spouse.
7. *The God you disowned*
When you are much older you become wiser, God becomes more real as you see life in a more meaningful way. But don't wait to get older to start enjoying a relationship with God.
Know God when you are young, build your future with God. Don't be a young rebel who runs back to God when age catches up.
8. *The body you messed up*
You have only one body to live with all your life. The cigarettes, the alcohol you are abusing, the drugs you are taking, the unhealthy food you're consuming; all that will destroy you slowly.
When you are 50 and lifestyle diseases catch up with you, you will wish you took care of your body when younger, that you exercised more; but now the damage is done.
9. *The time you wasted*
The time you are wasting when younger in worry, wrong relationships, laziness, being a couch potato, giving excuses and pursuing meaningless things; you will never get it back.
10. *The dreams and talents you shelved*
Are you talented when young; are there things you love to do and you are good at them?
Nurture those talents, exploit them, don't give up even if you encounter set backs, don't give up on your dreams. If you give up, when you're older you will look at your peers who stuck to what they love and made it and think to yourself,
"That could have been me". Pursue a career, study a course you love. Don't waste years of your life in a field that doesn't fulfill you.
11 *The name you defamed*
When you are older, a legacy is very important, the value of your name is crucial. You will ask yourself what is your reputation,
what are you leaving behind?
Your legacy is a sum total of your actions since youthful days. We write our biography by how we live life everyday. When you look back your path and you see the mud you threw at your own name, the shame you attracted and the little value you have added to the world; you will regret.
12. *The wealth you threw away*
Are you riding on good money during your productive years?
Earning good money?
Don't throw away that money in clubs, reckless living and wasteful shopping. Invest with that money, widen your revenue stream, make that money work for you and keep it safe to take care of you in your older years. Leave an inheritance for your loved ones so that you will never say "I wish I knew better"
13. *The good love that got away*
Is there that great person in your life loving you good?
Don't push that person away, or else that person will walk out your life and you will never ever find someone that incredible and who connects with you all your life. It will torment you to grow older with thoughts of "What if I was still with that person?"
14 *The parents you despised*
When younger, it is easy to show contempt to your parents; what do your parent's know?
They are old-fashioned, shady and small -minded. But your parents are still your parents whether you agree with them or not, whatever their style.
Don't let your parent die or age separated from you, reconcile and make up. When you get older, you will realize why your parents wanted to be close to you. The older you get, the more you see the value.
Time waits for no one.
Treasure every moment you have
Thanks for reading . Nice one |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Lamasta(m): 2:45pm On May 25, 2022 |
For every decision and action you want to take always remember old age, e get why |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by kushme: 2:49pm On May 25, 2022 |
lagonovo:
Thank you! Regrets is waste of your precious time left. Stay happy , give thanks, and mentor others.
Isaiah 43:18-19 Yea, regret is a waste of precious and limited time. However, people pursue happiness, which is a good thing, but stay happy should be some special kind of realm. Happiness and sadness are temporal feelings. I would prefer to stay sober. Cos for every action we take to pursue happiness, there possibly would be an opposite reaction of sadness should we fail to achieve that happiness. Happiness and Sadness are secretion of chemicals and they don't last that long. 1 Like |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Nobody: 2:50pm On May 25, 2022 |
Have you died before? |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by callmetoniaa: 2:52pm On May 25, 2022 |
Though am not yet old.but am already regretting one at the moment... |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by REALretep(m): 2:53pm On May 25, 2022 |
Akinpedia:
When younger we make various choice's without the future in mind. Sometimes those choices bite us in our mid-life. These are some of the things one might regret when they're older.
1. *Marrying the wrong person*
When you're young, check your motives for marrying. Don't marry to copy your peers, or for social standing or out of pressure.
Marry for love and companionship, marry the right person, marry your best friend. For if you marry the wrong person or for the wrong reasons, you will have to put up with that person the rest of your life.
Things might get worse between you two; then depression, physical abuse, affairs, pain, shame, court cases, bitterness will define your mid-life years all because you chose the wrong one.
Things will get worse when children are involved. Make the right choice of a spouse when you are young.
2. *The opportunities you did not seize*
When you are younger many doors will open, you will get many chances. Many young people let these opportunities go because of fear, laziness, or pride; yet well younger and with more energy is the best time to start a venture and a name for yourself.
Some think the opportunities are too big for them. Take advantage of them or one day when you're older you will want to go back and grab those missed chances.
3. *The bridges you burned*
When we are younger, we care little for relationships, what most think about is getting money and moving up the ladder of success at all cost.
Many use and trample on people to progress, they take relationships for granted, messing up bonds, sleeping with people for personal gain.
But these bad actions will catch up with you ahead. When you will realize how empty life is without love and friends. When you will have success but no one around you or no one to trust you.
4. *The child you aborted*
You are a young lady, you get pregnant and you are scared. You take the aborting option quickly thinking of that moment then. But when you are much older, you will look back and wish you kept that baby.
When you will be rich and successful you will wish that child you gave up on would be around to enjoy the fruits of your hard work. Being a single mother doesn't mean you can't make it in life or you can't find a man in future.
5. *The child you rejected*
Young man, you impregnated a woman, she told you she's pregnant with your child. You rejected her and the baby and ran. But years later when you're 50 something, you will wish you were responsible, you will wish you manned up and became a father to that child.
You will see that child excel and become an adult but will have no claim to that grown child who you rejected from the beginning. You will regret being a Dead Beat Dad by choice
6. *The marriage you destroyed*
So you get married to your good fiance; the first months in marriage were good but shortly after, with your money and charm, you started having affairs. You became unfaithful.
Your spouse begged you to stop, your children started hurting, your marriage was collapsing. One day when you are older, it will hit you how foolish you were to destroy the good marriage you had began to build for mere temporary thrills in affairs that did you no good. You will realize the damage you caused to your children and spouse.
7. *The God you disowned*
When you are much older you become wiser, God becomes more real as you see life in a more meaningful way. But don't wait to get older to start enjoying a relationship with God.
Know God when you are young, build your future with God. Don't be a young rebel who runs back to God when age catches up.
8. *The body you messed up*
You have only one body to live with all your life. The cigarettes, the alcohol you are abusing, the drugs you are taking, the unhealthy food you're consuming; all that will destroy you slowly.
When you are 50 and lifestyle diseases catch up with you, you will wish you took care of your body when younger, that you exercised more; but now the damage is done.
9. *The time you wasted*
The time you are wasting when younger in worry, wrong relationships, laziness, being a couch potato, giving excuses and pursuing meaningless things; you will never get it back.
10. *The dreams and talents you shelved*
Are you talented when young; are there things you love to do and you are good at them?
Nurture those talents, exploit them, don't give up even if you encounter set backs, don't give up on your dreams. If you give up, when you're older you will look at your peers who stuck to what they love and made it and think to yourself,
"That could have been me". Pursue a career, study a course you love. Don't waste years of your life in a field that doesn't fulfill you.
11 *The name you defamed*
When you are older, a legacy is very important, the value of your name is crucial. You will ask yourself what is your reputation,
what are you leaving behind?
Your legacy is a sum total of your actions since youthful days. We write our biography by how we live life everyday. When you look back your path and you see the mud you threw at your own name, the shame you attracted and the little value you have added to the world; you will regret.
12. *The wealth you threw away*
Are you riding on good money during your productive years?
Earning good money?
Don't throw away that money in clubs, reckless living and wasteful shopping. Invest with that money, widen your revenue stream, make that money work for you and keep it safe to take care of you in your older years. Leave an inheritance for your loved ones so that you will never say "I wish I knew better"
13. *The good love that got away*
Is there that great person in your life loving you good?
Don't push that person away, or else that person will walk out your life and you will never ever find someone that incredible and who connects with you all your life. It will torment you to grow older with thoughts of "What if I was still with that person?"
14 *The parents you despised*
When younger, it is easy to show contempt to your parents; what do your parent's know?
They are old-fashioned, shady and small -minded. But your parents are still your parents whether you agree with them or not, whatever their style.
Don't let your parent die or age separated from you, reconcile and make up. When you get older, you will realize why your parents wanted to be close to you. The older you get, the more you see the value.
Time waits for no one.
Treasure every moment you have
Thanks for reading Nice one OP |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by t2luv1: 2:53pm On May 25, 2022 |
Akinpedia:
When younger we make various choice's without the future in mind. Sometimes those choices bite us in our mid-life. These are some of the things one might regret when they're older.
1. *Marrying the wrong person*
When you're young, check your motives for marrying. Don't marry to copy your peers, or for social standing or out of pressure.
Marry for love and companionship, marry the right person, marry your best friend. For if you marry the wrong person or for the wrong reasons, you will have to put up with that person the rest of your life.
Things might get worse between you two; then depression, physical abuse, affairs, pain, shame, court cases, bitterness will define your mid-life years all because you chose the wrong one.
Things will get worse when children are involved. Make the right choice of a spouse when you are young.
2. *The opportunities you did not seize*
When you are younger many doors will open, you will get many chances. Many young people let these opportunities go because of fear, laziness, or pride; yet well younger and with more energy is the best time to start a venture and a name for yourself.
Some think the opportunities are too big for them. Take advantage of them or one day when you're older you will want to go back and grab those missed chances.
3. *The bridges you burned*
When we are younger, we care little for relationships, what most think about is getting money and moving up the ladder of success at all cost.
Many use and trample on people to progress, they take relationships for granted, messing up bonds, sleeping with people for personal gain.
But these bad actions will catch up with you ahead. When you will realize how empty life is without love and friends. When you will have success but no one around you or no one to trust you.
4. *The child you aborted*
You are a young lady, you get pregnant and you are scared. You take the aborting option quickly thinking of that moment then. But when you are much older, you will look back and wish you kept that baby.
When you will be rich and successful you will wish that child you gave up on would be around to enjoy the fruits of your hard work. Being a single mother doesn't mean you can't make it in life or you can't find a man in future.
5. *The child you rejected*
Young man, you impregnated a woman, she told you she's pregnant with your child. You rejected her and the baby and ran. But years later when you're 50 something, you will wish you were responsible, you will wish you manned up and became a father to that child.
You will see that child excel and become an adult but will have no claim to that grown child who you rejected from the beginning. You will regret being a Dead Beat Dad by choice
6. *The marriage you destroyed*
So you get married to your good fiance; the first months in marriage were good but shortly after, with your money and charm, you started having affairs. You became unfaithful.
Your spouse begged you to stop, your children started hurting, your marriage was collapsing. One day when you are older, it will hit you how foolish you were to destroy the good marriage you had began to build for mere temporary thrills in affairs that did you no good. You will realize the damage you caused to your children and spouse.
7. *The God you disowned*
When you are much older you become wiser, God becomes more real as you see life in a more meaningful way. But don't wait to get older to start enjoying a relationship with God.
Know God when you are young, build your future with God. Don't be a young rebel who runs back to God when age catches up.
8. *The body you messed up*
You have only one body to live with all your life. The cigarettes, the alcohol you are abusing, the drugs you are taking, the unhealthy food you're consuming; all that will destroy you slowly.
When you are 50 and lifestyle diseases catch up with you, you will wish you took care of your body when younger, that you exercised more; but now the damage is done.
9. *The time you wasted*
The time you are wasting when younger in worry, wrong relationships, laziness, being a couch potato, giving excuses and pursuing meaningless things; you will never get it back.
10. *The dreams and talents you shelved*
Are you talented when young; are there things you love to do and you are good at them?
Nurture those talents, exploit them, don't give up even if you encounter set backs, don't give up on your dreams. If you give up, when you're older you will look at your peers who stuck to what they love and made it and think to yourself,
"That could have been me". Pursue a career, study a course you love. Don't waste years of your life in a field that doesn't fulfill you.
11 *The name you defamed*
When you are older, a legacy is very important, the value of your name is crucial. You will ask yourself what is your reputation,
what are you leaving behind?
Your legacy is a sum total of your actions since youthful days. We write our biography by how we live life everyday. When you look back your path and you see the mud you threw at your own name, the shame you attracted and the little value you have added to the world; you will regret.
12. *The wealth you threw away*
Are you riding on good money during your productive years?
Earning good money?
Don't throw away that money in clubs, reckless living and wasteful shopping. Invest with that money, widen your revenue stream, make that money work for you and keep it safe to take care of you in your older years. Leave an inheritance for your loved ones so that you will never say "I wish I knew better"
13. *The good love that got away*
Is there that great person in your life loving you good?
Don't push that person away, or else that person will walk out your life and you will never ever find someone that incredible and who connects with you all your life. It will torment you to grow older with thoughts of "What if I was still with that person?"
14 *The parents you despised*
When younger, it is easy to show contempt to your parents; what do your parent's know?
They are old-fashioned, shady and small -minded. But your parents are still your parents whether you agree with them or not, whatever their style.
Don't let your parent die or age separated from you, reconcile and make up. When you get older, you will realize why your parents wanted to be close to you. The older you get, the more you see the value.
Time waits for no one.
Treasure every moment you have
Thanks for reading One of the best pieces of advice I have ever received was from an old man in Ijebu Ode "Remember her mindset will raise your children and not the things you can see" |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by edosignature(m): 3:01pm On May 25, 2022 |
Highly educative.
Thanks for sharing. |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Reality3080: 3:05pm On May 25, 2022 |
Rugaria:
There will always be regrets!
Lived my life so far trying to make sure that there are no regrets but no matter how good life is, there will always be that one thing you will always think you should have done or not have done! Life is like that!
Don't be too hard on yourself. We are here for only a while. And no one is perfect
Do your utmost best and let the rest slide.. the first time I agree with u |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by naijapikin2(m): 3:06pm On May 25, 2022 |
yemmit90:
Only a fool and hopeless soul will allow the number 1 to define his life. If your wife or husband is terrible, leave the marriage as soon as you can. the level of your idiocy is monumental, your stupidity is catastrophically alarming. Don't you know that you can not completely study your spouse, and who tells you the next person will be better. But you can do yourself a world of good if you take time choose right, and hope for the best. I you don't agree then I'm sorry for whoever paid your school fees. It was obviously a waste. |
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| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Amumaigwe: 3:35pm On May 25, 2022 |
Akinpedia:
When younger we make various choice's without the future in mind. Sometimes those choices bite us in our mid-life. These are some of the things one might regret when they're older.
1. *Marrying the wrong person*
When you're young, check your motives for marrying. Don't marry to copy your peers, or for social standing or out of pressure.
Marry for love and companionship, marry the right person, marry your best friend. For if you marry the wrong person or for the wrong reasons, you will have to put up with that person the rest of your life.
Things might get worse between you two; then depression, physical abuse, affairs, pain, shame, court cases, bitterness will define your mid-life years all because you chose the wrong one.
Things will get worse when children are involved. Make the right choice of a spouse when you are young.
2. *The opportunities you did not seize*
When you are younger many doors will open, you will get many chances. Many young people let these opportunities go because of fear, laziness, or pride; yet well younger and with more energy is the best time to start a venture and a name for yourself.
Some think the opportunities are too big for them. Take advantage of them or one day when you're older you will want to go back and grab those missed chances.
3. *The bridges you burned*
When we are younger, we care little for relationships, what most think about is getting money and moving up the ladder of success at all cost.
Many use and trample on people to progress, they take relationships for granted, messing up bonds, sleeping with people for personal gain.
But these bad actions will catch up with you ahead. When you will realize how empty life is without love and friends. When you will have success but no one around you or no one to trust you.
4. *The child you aborted*
You are a young lady, you get pregnant and you are scared. You take the aborting option quickly thinking of that moment then. But when you are much older, you will look back and wish you kept that baby.
When you will be rich and successful you will wish that child you gave up on would be around to enjoy the fruits of your hard work. Being a single mother doesn't mean you can't make it in life or you can't find a man in future.
5. *The child you rejected*
Young man, you impregnated a woman, she told you she's pregnant with your child. You rejected her and the baby and ran. But years later when you're 50 something, you will wish you were responsible, you will wish you manned up and became a father to that child.
You will see that child excel and become an adult but will have no claim to that grown child who you rejected from the beginning. You will regret being a Dead Beat Dad by choice
6. *The marriage you destroyed*
So you get married to your good fiance; the first months in marriage were good but shortly after, with your money and charm, you started having affairs. You became unfaithful.
Your spouse begged you to stop, your children started hurting, your marriage was collapsing. One day when you are older, it will hit you how foolish you were to destroy the good marriage you had began to build for mere temporary thrills in affairs that did you no good. You will realize the damage you caused to your children and spouse.
7. *The God you disowned*
When you are much older you become wiser, God becomes more real as you see life in a more meaningful way. But don't wait to get older to start enjoying a relationship with God.
Know God when you are young, build your future with God. Don't be a young rebel who runs back to God when age catches up.
8. *The body you messed up*
You have only one body to live with all your life. The cigarettes, the alcohol you are abusing, the drugs you are taking, the unhealthy food you're consuming; all that will destroy you slowly.
When you are 50 and lifestyle diseases catch up with you, you will wish you took care of your body when younger, that you exercised more; but now the damage is done.
9. *The time you wasted*
The time you are wasting when younger in worry, wrong relationships, laziness, being a couch potato, giving excuses and pursuing meaningless things; you will never get it back.
10. *The dreams and talents you shelved*
Are you talented when young; are there things you love to do and you are good at them?
Nurture those talents, exploit them, don't give up even if you encounter set backs, don't give up on your dreams. If you give up, when you're older you will look at your peers who stuck to what they love and made it and think to yourself,
"That could have been me". Pursue a career, study a course you love. Don't waste years of your life in a field that doesn't fulfill you.
11 *The name you defamed*
When you are older, a legacy is very important, the value of your name is crucial. You will ask yourself what is your reputation,
what are you leaving behind?
Your legacy is a sum total of your actions since youthful days. We write our biography by how we live life everyday. When you look back your path and you see the mud you threw at your own name, the shame you attracted and the little value you have added to the world; you will regret.
12. *The wealth you threw away*
Are you riding on good money during your productive years?
Earning good money?
Don't throw away that money in clubs, reckless living and wasteful shopping. Invest with that money, widen your revenue stream, make that money work for you and keep it safe to take care of you in your older years. Leave an inheritance for your loved ones so that you will never say "I wish I knew better"
13. *The good love that got away*
Is there that great person in your life loving you good?
Don't push that person away, or else that person will walk out your life and you will never ever find someone that incredible and who connects with you all your life. It will torment you to grow older with thoughts of "What if I was still with that person?"
14 *The parents you despised*
When younger, it is easy to show contempt to your parents; what do your parent's know?
They are old-fashioned, shady and small -minded. But your parents are still your parents whether you agree with them or not, whatever their style.
Don't let your parent die or age separated from you, reconcile and make up. When you get older, you will realize why your parents wanted to be close to you. The older you get, the more you see the value.
Time waits for no one.
Treasure every moment you have
Thanks for reading A great piece. |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Adaobiii: 3:36pm On May 25, 2022 |
8,9 and 12 is my current predicament.though I am still young |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by yemmit90: 3:42pm On May 25, 2022 |
naijapikin2:
the level of your idiocy is monumental, your stupidity is catastrophically alarming. Don't you know that you can not completely study your spouse, and who tells you the next person will be better. But you can do yourself a world of good if you take time choose right, and hope for the best. I you don't agree then I'm sorry for whoever paid your school fees. It was obviously a waste. I did not insult you, neither did I directed my post at you, why calling me names for airing my view? You are the one that lack comprehension skill or understanding of logic. The literal meaning/interpretation of my previous post is, and I quote " marriage is not a do or die affairs like olden days". If your wife or husband is terrible. You dont need to remain there in perpetual misery, all you need to do is to walk away to avoid future or old age regret. You becomes a fool or hopeless soul the moment you chose to remain and tolerate this terrible spouse. Chosing a right partner is a game of luck, a good husband/ wife of your youth can become a terrible wife/husband in future. Humans are very unpredictable by nature, and can change to anything you least expected. No one is good or bad, it is circumstances that change the way people view life. The most important thing in marriage is to never allow your better half make you regret marry him/her at old age. Your happiness and sorrow at old age as regards marriage lies solely in decisions you made or failed to correct today. Life become easy and simple the moment you dont allow anything, no matter how valuable it is, to take away your peace and happiness. Hope you get the point now. 2 Likes |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by RussellRutherfo: 3:55pm On May 25, 2022 |
Akinpedia:
When younger we make various choice's without the future in mind. Sometimes those choices bite us in our mid-life. These are some of the things one might regret when they're older.
1. *Marrying the wrong person*
When you're young, check your motives for marrying. Don't marry to copy your peers, or for social standing or out of pressure.
Marry for love and companionship, marry the right person, marry your best friend. For if you marry the wrong person or for the wrong reasons, you will have to put up with that person the rest of your life.
Things might get worse between you two; then depression, physical abuse, affairs, pain, shame, court cases, bitterness will define your mid-life years all because you chose the wrong one.
Things will get worse when children are involved. Make the right choice of a spouse when you are young.
2. *The opportunities you did not seize*
When you are younger many doors will open, you will get many chances. Many young people let these opportunities go because of fear, laziness, or pride; yet well younger and with more energy is the best time to start a venture and a name for yourself.
Some think the opportunities are too big for them. Take advantage of them or one day when you're older you will want to go back and grab those missed chances.
3. *The bridges you burned*
When we are younger, we care little for relationships, what most think about is getting money and moving up the ladder of success at all cost.
Many use and trample on people to progress, they take relationships for granted, messing up bonds, sleeping with people for personal gain.
But these bad actions will catch up with you ahead. When you will realize how empty life is without love and friends. When you will have success but no one around you or no one to trust you.
4. *The child you aborted*
You are a young lady, you get pregnant and you are scared. You take the aborting option quickly thinking of that moment then. But when you are much older, you will look back and wish you kept that baby.
When you will be rich and successful you will wish that child you gave up on would be around to enjoy the fruits of your hard work. Being a single mother doesn't mean you can't make it in life or you can't find a man in future.
5. *The child you rejected*
Young man, you impregnated a woman, she told you she's pregnant with your child. You rejected her and the baby and ran. But years later when you're 50 something, you will wish you were responsible, you will wish you manned up and became a father to that child.
You will see that child excel and become an adult but will have no claim to that grown child who you rejected from the beginning. You will regret being a Dead Beat Dad by choice
6. *The marriage you destroyed*
So you get married to your good fiance; the first months in marriage were good but shortly after, with your money and charm, you started having affairs. You became unfaithful.
Your spouse begged you to stop, your children started hurting, your marriage was collapsing. One day when you are older, it will hit you how foolish you were to destroy the good marriage you had began to build for mere temporary thrills in affairs that did you no good. You will realize the damage you caused to your children and spouse.
7. *The God you disowned*
When you are much older you become wiser, God becomes more real as you see life in a more meaningful way. But don't wait to get older to start enjoying a relationship with God.
Know God when you are young, build your future with God. Don't be a young rebel who runs back to God when age catches up.
8. *The body you messed up*
You have only one body to live with all your life. The cigarettes, the alcohol you are abusing, the drugs you are taking, the unhealthy food you're consuming; all that will destroy you slowly.
When you are 50 and lifestyle diseases catch up with you, you will wish you took care of your body when younger, that you exercised more; but now the damage is done.
9. *The time you wasted*
The time you are wasting when younger in worry, wrong relationships, laziness, being a couch potato, giving excuses and pursuing meaningless things; you will never get it back.
10. *The dreams and talents you shelved*
Are you talented when young; are there things you love to do and you are good at them?
Nurture those talents, exploit them, don't give up even if you encounter set backs, don't give up on your dreams. If you give up, when you're older you will look at your peers who stuck to what they love and made it and think to yourself,
"That could have been me". Pursue a career, study a course you love. Don't waste years of your life in a field that doesn't fulfill you.
11 *The name you defamed*
When you are older, a legacy is very important, the value of your name is crucial. You will ask yourself what is your reputation,
what are you leaving behind?
Your legacy is a sum total of your actions since youthful days. We write our biography by how we live life everyday. When you look back your path and you see the mud you threw at your own name, the shame you attracted and the little value you have added to the world; you will regret.
12. *The wealth you threw away*
Are you riding on good money during your productive years?
Earning good money?
Don't throw away that money in clubs, reckless living and wasteful shopping. Invest with that money, widen your revenue stream, make that money work for you and keep it safe to take care of you in your older years. Leave an inheritance for your loved ones so that you will never say "I wish I knew better"
13. *The good love that got away*
Is there that great person in your life loving you good?
Don't push that person away, or else that person will walk out your life and you will never ever find someone that incredible and who connects with you all your life. It will torment you to grow older with thoughts of "What if I was still with that person?"
14 *The parents you despised*
When younger, it is easy to show contempt to your parents; what do your parent's know?
They are old-fashioned, shady and small -minded. But your parents are still your parents whether you agree with them or not, whatever their style.
Don't let your parent die or age separated from you, reconcile and make up. When you get older, you will realize why your parents wanted to be close to you. The older you get, the more you see the value.
Time waits for no one.
Treasure every moment you have
Thanks for reading Frontpage post. |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Emmanuel909090: 3:56pm On May 25, 2022 |
Informative |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by jojothaiv(m): 3:59pm On May 25, 2022 |
Mharthings:
15. Rn, The Nigeria that you stayed back!  If you get chance, Japa! Sabi man.. 1 Like |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by LadyTara(f): 3:59pm On May 25, 2022 |
Do the best you can and leave the rest, always give the best version of yourself .
Be kind to yourself and extend to others, take delight in the simplest things and don't overthink situations you have no control over.
Know that you are human and shit happens only then will you go through life with less regrets. 1 Like |
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| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Nobody: 4:08pm On May 25, 2022 |
No 4 is bullshit |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Deepocean(m): 4:13pm On May 25, 2022 |
OderaOdesigo:
Wao. God bless you so much for this piece, AKINPEDIA. I gave up on Nairaland recently when I realised it seems to be dovetailed specifically for certain political and social agenda.
Seeing this piece just made my day. You see pieces like this at times and the information in it are contradictory or one point is right and another is wrong. In your case, everything you wrote is spot-on.
May God reward you for helping check my life while I am still at that age when I can still make corrections. Sorry if this question is offensive. I noticed that you so much cherish the write-up, can I know your age range maybe we can reason some things together as regards life matters. deepocean080@gmail.com Thanks you. |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Decapo: 4:41pm On May 25, 2022 |
Facts |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Ogegod87: 4:56pm On May 25, 2022 |
Akinpedia:
When younger we make various choice's without the future in mind. Sometimes those choices bite us in our mid-life. These are some of the things one might regret when they're older.
1. *Marrying the wrong person*
When you're young, check your motives for marrying. Don't marry to copy your peers, or for social standing or out of pressure.
Marry for love and companionship, marry the right person, marry your best friend. For if you marry the wrong person or for the wrong reasons, you will have to put up with that person the rest of your life.
Things might get worse between you two; then depression, physical abuse, affairs, pain, shame, court cases, bitterness will define your mid-life years all because you chose the wrong one.
Things will get worse when children are involved. Make the right choice of a spouse when you are young.
2. *The opportunities you did not seize*
When you are younger many doors will open, you will get many chances. Many young people let these opportunities go because of fear, laziness, or pride; yet well younger and with more energy is the best time to start a venture and a name for yourself.
Some think the opportunities are too big for them. Take advantage of them or one day when you're older you will want to go back and grab those missed chances.
3. *The bridges you burned*
When we are younger, we care little for relationships, what most think about is getting money and moving up the ladder of success at all cost.
Many use and trample on people to progress, they take relationships for granted, messing up bonds, sleeping with people for personal gain.
But these bad actions will catch up with you ahead. When you will realize how empty life is without love and friends. When you will have success but no one around you or no one to trust you.
4. *The child you aborted*
You are a young lady, you get pregnant and you are scared. You take the aborting option quickly thinking of that moment then. But when you are much older, you will look back and wish you kept that baby.
When you will be rich and successful you will wish that child you gave up on would be around to enjoy the fruits of your hard work. Being a single mother doesn't mean you can't make it in life or you can't find a man in future.
5. *The child you rejected*
Young man, you impregnated a woman, she told you she's pregnant with your child. You rejected her and the baby and ran. But years later when you're 50 something, you will wish you were responsible, you will wish you manned up and became a father to that child.
You will see that child excel and become an adult but will have no claim to that grown child who you rejected from the beginning. You will regret being a Dead Beat Dad by choice
6. *The marriage you destroyed*
So you get married to your good fiance; the first months in marriage were good but shortly after, with your money and charm, you started having affairs. You became unfaithful.
Your spouse begged you to stop, your children started hurting, your marriage was collapsing. One day when you are older, it will hit you how foolish you were to destroy the good marriage you had began to build for mere temporary thrills in affairs that did you no good. You will realize the damage you caused to your children and spouse.
7. *The God you disowned*
When you are much older you become wiser, God becomes more real as you see life in a more meaningful way. But don't wait to get older to start enjoying a relationship with God.
Know God when you are young, build your future with God. Don't be a young rebel who runs back to God when age catches up.
8. *The body you messed up*
You have only one body to live with all your life. The cigarettes, the alcohol you are abusing, the drugs you are taking, the unhealthy food you're consuming; all that will destroy you slowly.
When you are 50 and lifestyle diseases catch up with you, you will wish you took care of your body when younger, that you exercised more; but now the damage is done.
9. *The time you wasted*
The time you are wasting when younger in worry, wrong relationships, laziness, being a couch potato, giving excuses and pursuing meaningless things; you will never get it back.
10. *The dreams and talents you shelved*
Are you talented when young; are there things you love to do and you are good at them?
Nurture those talents, exploit them, don't give up even if you encounter set backs, don't give up on your dreams. If you give up, when you're older you will look at your peers who stuck to what they love and made it and think to yourself,
"That could have been me". Pursue a career, study a course you love. Don't waste years of your life in a field that doesn't fulfill you.
11 *The name you defamed*
When you are older, a legacy is very important, the value of your name is crucial. You will ask yourself what is your reputation,
what are you leaving behind?
Your legacy is a sum total of your actions since youthful days. We write our biography by how we live life everyday. When you look back your path and you see the mud you threw at your own name, the shame you attracted and the little value you have added to the world; you will regret.
12. *The wealth you threw away*
Are you riding on good money during your productive years?
Earning good money?
Don't throw away that money in clubs, reckless living and wasteful shopping. Invest with that money, widen your revenue stream, make that money work for you and keep it safe to take care of you in your older years. Leave an inheritance for your loved ones so that you will never say "I wish I knew better"
13. *The good love that got away*
Is there that great person in your life loving you good?
Don't push that person away, or else that person will walk out your life and you will never ever find someone that incredible and who connects with you all your life. It will torment you to grow older with thoughts of "What if I was still with that person?"
14 *The parents you despised*
When younger, it is easy to show contempt to your parents; what do your parent's know?
They are old-fashioned, shady and small -minded. But your parents are still your parents whether you agree with them or not, whatever their style.
Don't let your parent die or age separated from you, reconcile and make up. When you get older, you will realize why your parents wanted to be close to you. The older you get, the more you see the value.
Time waits for no one.
Treasure every moment you have
Thanks for reading Harsh truth. |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Delacroix6(m): 5:14pm On May 25, 2022 |
NLPoliceWoman:
Dominique Justwise Seun.
Rule 2.
Rule 21 Sorry ma'am. Gonna arrest me  Urghhhhhhh Looks like someone's got a crush on the BBQ dude. |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by kelvine(m): 5:20pm On May 25, 2022 |
Develop this into a thread on its own. "There will always be that one thing you wish you had done better" "Don't be too hard on yourself" "We are here only for a little while" Let me add mine. "Whether you live in regrets or not, when death comes close, you will tremble and wish you had more time" Even Jesus said, my father my father, why hath thou forsaken me? We need this information also. Rugaria:
There will always be regrets!
Lived my life so far trying to make sure that there are no regrets but no matter how good life is, there will always be that one thing you will always think you should have done or not have done! Life is like that!
Don't be too hard on yourself. We are here for only a while. And no one is perfect
Do your utmost best and let the rest slide.. 1 Like |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Atolu01: 5:38pm On May 25, 2022 |
Hm. |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by tabaralph: 5:55pm On May 25, 2022 |
Akinpedia:
When younger we make various choice's without the future in mind. Sometimes those choices bite us in our mid-life. These are some of the things one might regret when they're older.
1. *Marrying the wrong person*
When you're young, check your motives for marrying. Don't marry to copy your peers, or for social standing or out of pressure.
Marry for love and companionship, marry the right person, marry your best friend. For if you marry the wrong person or for the wrong reasons, you will have to put up with that person the rest of your life.
Things might get worse between you two; then depression, physical abuse, affairs, pain, shame, court cases, bitterness will define your mid-life years all because you chose the wrong one.
Things will get worse when children are involved. Make the right choice of a spouse when you are young.
2. *The opportunities you did not seize*
When you are younger many doors will open, you will get many chances. Many young people let these opportunities go because of fear, laziness, or pride; yet well younger and with more energy is the best time to start a venture and a name for yourself.
Some think the opportunities are too big for them. Take advantage of them or one day when you're older you will want to go back and grab those missed chances.
3. *The bridges you burned*
When we are younger, we care little for relationships, what most think about is getting money and moving up the ladder of success at all cost.
Many use and trample on people to progress, they take relationships for granted, messing up bonds, sleeping with people for personal gain.
But these bad actions will catch up with you ahead. When you will realize how empty life is without love and friends. When you will have success but no one around you or no one to trust you.
4. *The child you aborted*
You are a young lady, you get pregnant and you are scared. You take the aborting option quickly thinking of that moment then. But when you are much older, you will look back and wish you kept that baby.
When you will be rich and successful you will wish that child you gave up on would be around to enjoy the fruits of your hard work. Being a single mother doesn't mean you can't make it in life or you can't find a man in future.
5. *The child you rejected*
Young man, you impregnated a woman, she told you she's pregnant with your child. You rejected her and the baby and ran. But years later when you're 50 something, you will wish you were responsible, you will wish you manned up and became a father to that child.
You will see that child excel and become an adult but will have no claim to that grown child who you rejected from the beginning. You will regret being a Dead Beat Dad by choice
6. *The marriage you destroyed*
So you get married to your good fiance; the first months in marriage were good but shortly after, with your money and charm, you started having affairs. You became unfaithful.
Your spouse begged you to stop, your children started hurting, your marriage was collapsing. One day when you are older, it will hit you how foolish you were to destroy the good marriage you had began to build for mere temporary thrills in affairs that did you no good. You will realize the damage you caused to your children and spouse.
7. *The God you disowned*
When you are much older you become wiser, God becomes more real as you see life in a more meaningful way. But don't wait to get older to start enjoying a relationship with God.
Know God when you are young, build your future with God. Don't be a young rebel who runs back to God when age catches up.
8. *The body you messed up*
You have only one body to live with all your life. The cigarettes, the alcohol you are abusing, the drugs you are taking, the unhealthy food you're consuming; all that will destroy you slowly.
When you are 50 and lifestyle diseases catch up with you, you will wish you took care of your body when younger, that you exercised more; but now the damage is done.
9. *The time you wasted*
The time you are wasting when younger in worry, wrong relationships, laziness, being a couch potato, giving excuses and pursuing meaningless things; you will never get it back.
10. *The dreams and talents you shelved*
Are you talented when young; are there things you love to do and you are good at them?
Nurture those talents, exploit them, don't give up even if you encounter set backs, don't give up on your dreams. If you give up, when you're older you will look at your peers who stuck to what they love and made it and think to yourself,
"That could have been me". Pursue a career, study a course you love. Don't waste years of your life in a field that doesn't fulfill you.
11 *The name you defamed*
When you are older, a legacy is very important, the value of your name is crucial. You will ask yourself what is your reputation,
what are you leaving behind?
Your legacy is a sum total of your actions since youthful days. We write our biography by how we live life everyday. When you look back your path and you see the mud you threw at your own name, the shame you attracted and the little value you have added to the world; you will regret.
12. *The wealth you threw away*
Are you riding on good money during your productive years?
Earning good money?
Don't throw away that money in clubs, reckless living and wasteful shopping. Invest with that money, widen your revenue stream, make that money work for you and keep it safe to take care of you in your older years. Leave an inheritance for your loved ones so that you will never say "I wish I knew better"
13. *The good love that got away*
Is there that great person in your life loving you good?
Don't push that person away, or else that person will walk out your life and you will never ever find someone that incredible and who connects with you all your life. It will torment you to grow older with thoughts of "What if I was still with that person?"
14 *The parents you despised*
When younger, it is easy to show contempt to your parents; what do your parent's know?
They are old-fashioned, shady and small -minded. But your parents are still your parents whether you agree with them or not, whatever their style.
Don't let your parent die or age separated from you, reconcile and make up. When you get older, you will realize why your parents wanted to be close to you. The older you get, the more you see the value.
Time waits for no one.
Treasure every moment you have
That point number 2 really affected me but w still bless God today, I missed the opportunity of either joining immigration, custom or police in those days why I was working with an Indian company at eleganza plaza Apapa as a PA to th e MD, I have very close interaction with former police IG hafiz Ringim, former immigration comptroller Tunji Wellington and a former DCG of customs Isaac Ogilo, but I later traveled outside the country with my family and my 3 sons , first 2 boys are graduate and the last son in a soccer academy in Europe… who knows I would have died if I had joined any of this organisations…every one’s journey has been predestined by his creator
Thanks for reading |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by lagonovo: 6:24pm On May 25, 2022 |
kushme:
Yea, regret is a waste of precious and limited time. However, people pursue happiness, which is a good thing, but stay happy should be some special kind of realm. Happiness and sadness are temporal feelings. I would prefer to stay sober.
Cos for every action we take to pursue happiness, there possibly would be an opposite reaction of sadness should we fail to achieve that happiness. Happiness and Sadness are secretion of chemicals and they don't last that long.
I wanted to respond by explaining what real happiness means, but decided to quote an unknown person for better insight. He captured it very well in a simple way: "If you think happiness is temporary you have not found lasting happiness.
The difficulty with lasting happiness is that we easily seem to lose happiness when something undesired kicks in. This means our happiness is similar to a flower, growing, blooming and decaying. That is not lasting happiness.
Lasting happiness is present when you know that once you take a little care of the plant and nothing horrible happens to it, it will grow, bloom and decay. Year after year.
One day the flowers will be gone, or we will be gone. That’s no reason to be upset, isn’t it?"As another person put it, "happiness is permanently set in everybody's life, our consciousness of happiness however depends on how we deal with life's obstacles. Hence, to keep happiness ever permanent, one should take life easy, stay calm, adopt a wholistic approach to life, always see a good end, remain smiling. Avoid unnecessary waste of energy." |
| Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Karnice600: 6:25pm On May 25, 2022 |
Akinpedia:
When younger we make various choice's without the future in mind. Sometimes those choices bite us in our mid-life. These are some of the things one might regret when they're older.
1. *Marrying the wrong person*
When you're young, check your motives for marrying. Don't marry to copy your peers, or for social standing or out of pressure.
Marry for love and companionship, marry the right person, marry your best friend. For if you marry the wrong person or for the wrong reasons, you will have to put up with that person the rest of your life.
Things might get worse between you two; then depression, physical abuse, affairs, pain, shame, court cases, bitterness will define your mid-life years all because you chose the wrong one.
Things will get worse when children are involved. Make the right choice of a spouse when you are young.
2. *The opportunities you did not seize*
When you are younger many doors will open, you will get many chances. Many young people let these opportunities go because of fear, laziness, or pride; yet well younger and with more energy is the best time to start a venture and a name for yourself.
Some think the opportunities are too big for them. Take advantage of them or one day when you're older you will want to go back and grab those missed chances.
3. *The bridges you burned*
When we are younger, we care little for relationships, what most think about is getting money and moving up the ladder of success at all cost.
Many use and trample on people to progress, they take relationships for granted, messing up bonds, sleeping with people for personal gain.
But these bad actions will catch up with you ahead. When you will realize how empty life is without love and friends. When you will have success but no one around you or no one to trust you.
4. *The child you aborted*
You are a young lady, you get pregnant and you are scared. You take the aborting option quickly thinking of that moment then. But when you are much older, you will look back and wish you kept that baby.
When you will be rich and successful you will wish that child you gave up on would be around to enjoy the fruits of your hard work. Being a single mother doesn't mean you can't make it in life or you can't find a man in future.
5. *The child you rejected*
Young man, you impregnated a woman, she told you she's pregnant with your child. You rejected her and the baby and ran. But years later when you're 50 something, you will wish you were responsible, you will wish you manned up and became a father to that child.
You will see that child excel and become an adult but will have no claim to that grown child who you rejected from the beginning. You will regret being a Dead Beat Dad by choice
6. *The marriage you destroyed*
So you get married to your good fiance; the first months in marriage were good but shortly after, with your money and charm, you started having affairs. You became unfaithful.
Your spouse begged you to stop, your children started hurting, your marriage was collapsing. One day when you are older, it will hit you how foolish you were to destroy the good marriage you had began to build for mere temporary thrills in affairs that did you no good. You will realize the damage you caused to your children and spouse.
7. *The God you disowned*
When you are much older you become wiser, God becomes more real as you see life in a more meaningful way. But don't wait to get older to start enjoying a relationship with God.
Know God when you are young, build your future with God. Don't be a young rebel who runs back to God when age catches up.
8. *The body you messed up*
You have only one body to live with all your life. The cigarettes, the alcohol you are abusing, the drugs you are taking, the unhealthy food you're consuming; all that will destroy you slowly.
When you are 50 and lifestyle diseases catch up with you, you will wish you took care of your body when younger, that you exercised more; but now the damage is done.
9. *The time you wasted*
The time you are wasting when younger in worry, wrong relationships, laziness, being a couch potato, giving excuses and pursuing meaningless things; you will never get it back.
10. *The dreams and talents you shelved*
Are you talented when young; are there things you love to do and you are good at them?
Nurture those talents, exploit them, don't give up even if you encounter set backs, don't give up on your dreams. If you give up, when you're older you will look at your peers who stuck to what they love and made it and think to yourself,
"That could have been me". Pursue a career, study a course you love. Don't waste years of your life in a field that doesn't fulfill you.
11 *The name you defamed*
When you are older, a legacy is very important, the value of your name is crucial. You will ask yourself what is your reputation,
what are you leaving behind?
Your legacy is a sum total of your actions since youthful days. We write our biography by how we live life everyday. When you look back your path and you see the mud you threw at your own name, the shame you attracted and the little value you have added to the world; you will regret.
12. *The wealth you threw away*
Are you riding on good money during your productive years?
Earning good money?
Don't throw away that money in clubs, reckless living and wasteful shopping. Invest with that money, widen your revenue stream, make that money work for you and keep it safe to take care of you in your older years. Leave an inheritance for your loved ones so that you will never say "I wish I knew better"
13. *The good love that got away*
Is there that great person in your life loving you good?
Don't push that person away, or else that person will walk out your life and you will never ever find someone that incredible and who connects with you all your life. It will torment you to grow older with thoughts of "What if I was still with that person?"
14 *The parents you despised*
When younger, it is easy to show contempt to your parents; what do your parent's know?
They are old-fashioned, shady and small -minded. But your parents are still your parents whether you agree with them or not, whatever their style.
Don't let your parent die or age separated from you, reconcile and make up. When you get older, you will realize why your parents wanted to be close to you. The older you get, the more you see the value.
Time waits for no one.
Treasure every moment you have
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