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Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Rugaria: 6:48pm On May 25, 2022
kelvine:
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.



I will try to do so
Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Starcy(m): 6:50pm On May 25, 2022
So inspiring it make my day meaningful
Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by naijapikin2(m): 7:45pm On May 25, 2022
yemmit90:


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.
why did you have to put the cart before the horse? This was supposed to be your first post explained in detail. Fact is I agree with some of your points. But my point of emphasis is, and get this strait: marriage, or relationship, or intimacy or flexing or catching cruise, whatever you call it... It has the ability to give you 90 % of your happiness or sadness. That's my point.. I got your point, hope you got mine.... PS: I take back my words. Danke
Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by lildush(m): 7:58pm On May 25, 2022
Weldon sir. We need more of this..
Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Justinahalisu64: 8:13pm On May 25, 2022
Cgg
Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by ststyreal(f): 8:47pm On May 25, 2022
On point! I love old people alot! God bless our aged parents in Jesus name amennnnn
Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by SimplePlan34: 9:49pm On May 25, 2022
Omo let me come and die quickly
Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by smile14: 10:19pm On May 25, 2022
This one touch me,the only opportunity that came was i suppose to be a yahoo but i couldn't bcus my conscience didn't carry me to take from people illegally ..the regret i have is going to school for those years.now beautiful financial stable ladies want to force me to marry but i cant bcus i want to be happy man tomorrow.ill still wait for God
Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Billygee2u: 1:06am On May 26, 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
Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Billygee2u: 1:08am On May 26, 2022
Ancecoker:
Psalm 71:9
Do not cast me off in the time of old age; Do not forsake me when my strength fails
cry
Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Wwwq: 2:03am On May 26, 2022
Yea
Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by 9jaRealist: 2:21am On May 26, 2022
>
If you make it to old age…
You are already “successful” because MILLIONS will not.

Life is what happens when you’re busy making plans…
Be sensible, but live your life TODAY for you’re not guaranteed tomorrow.

>
Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by raystanley(m): 4:07am On May 26, 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
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Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by bluefilm: 5:34am On May 26, 2022
Akinpedia:
[s]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 youdestroyed*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 whoconnects 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 parentsyoudespised*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 haveThanks for reading[/s]

Crap. angry
Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by 15ssDRIVE(m): 6:02am On May 26, 2022
Thanks for this article. This is for me.
Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by 1880bol: 7:00am On May 26, 2022
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post=113161077:
[color=#990000][/color]

Hmmmmm?, this is deep!
Only the elderly married members will understand.

Not for the small boys to understand..... no be dem load!

We Rise.


Hmmmmm, this is deeper!
Words of a wise man.

Btw,
We no be Bro o.
We are simply WE.
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Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by 1880bol: 7:00am On May 26, 2022
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post=113161146:

Hmmmmmm, this is the deepest!

God bless you for this OP.

END OF THREAD!!!


Yes o,
Deeper than the deepest.
Lol cheesy
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Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by 1880bol: 7:01am On May 26, 2022
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post=113161185:

You can say that again bro.
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Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Delacroix6(m): 2:01pm On May 26, 2022
NLPoliceWoman:
Dominique Justwise Seun.
Rule 2.
Rule 21

You're sure energetic.
Re: 14 Things That Cause Regret At Old Age! by Nahunger(m): 11:55am On Jun 19, 2022
post=113161077:
[color=#990000][/color]

Hmmmmm?, this is deep!
Only the elderly married members will understand.

Not for the small boys to understand..... no be dem load!

We Rise.


Hmmmmm, this is deeper!
Words of a wise man.

Btw,
We no be Bro o.
We are simply WE.
God help us

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