Yes I've had regrets and may have a few more. :idk:

Things have still worked out fairly well for me though so it could definitely be worse. All in all life is pretty decent.

I regret not sleeping with my sisters friend before she got into porn. Oh and for all you Raylene fans.... Not to fear she, is coming out of retirement.

I guess the real estate business wasn't paying the bills.

I have disappointments, but nothing I regret. I do not wish to take any of it back, I wouldn't be where I was without those mistakes. If taking back one of my mistakes would make me super rich and an awesome. Sure I regret making that one. :lol:

Simply defined regret means to feel remorse for or be contrite about. Regret does not mean that you wouldn't have done it or that you want to change it. It literally means that you feel sorry about it.

I agree with fasternyou....the rest of you are just playing the semantics game. :idk:

I find that regrets are a waste of time.

Life's too short and there's too much to do to spend time on regretting the past.

(Uh-Oh - Your educator is showing)

It rears its head from time to time. ;)

I also don't think regret means you have to sulk about it or focus on it for years to come. It can also be a simple acknowledgement.

Years ago I was leading a ride down US31 in Michigan. At the last second, I decided to bail at the exit and just made the turn. My friend behind me wasn't so lucky, wrecked his bike and broke his wrist. I regret not being patient and waiting for the next exit. I learned the importance of not making rash decisions when you're leading a ride, but I don't think that means I can say "it made me who I am today" and make it a simple "learning experience". In the end it was a learning experience, but it's also a regret.

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re⋅gret
  /rɪˈgrɛt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ri-gret] Show IPA verb, -gret⋅ted, -gret⋅ting, noun
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–verb (used with object)
1. to feel sorrow or remorse for (an act, fault, disappointment, etc.): He no sooner spoke than he regretted it.
2. to think of with a sense of loss: to regret one's vanished youth.
–noun
3. a sense of loss, disappointment, dissatisfaction, etc.
4. a feeling of sorrow or remorse for a fault, act, loss, disappointment, etc.
5. regrets, a polite, usually formal refusal of an invitation: I sent her my regrets.
6. a note expressing regret at one's inability to accept an invitation: I have had four acceptances and one regret.
Origin:
1300–50; ME regretten (v.) < MF regreter, OF, equiv. to re- re- + -greter, perh. < Gmc (cf. greet 2 )

Related forms:
re⋅gret⋅ter, noun
re⋅gret⋅ting⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. deplore, lament, bewail, bemoan, mourn, sorrow, grieve. Regret, penitence, remorse imply a sense of sorrow about events in the past, usually wrongs committed or errors made. Regret is distress of mind, sorrow for what has been done or failed to be done: to have no regrets. Penitence implies a sense of sin or misdoing, a feeling of contrition and determination not to sin again: a humble sense of penitence. Remorse implies pangs, qualms of conscience, a sense of guilt, regret, and repentance for sins committed, wrongs done, or duty not performed: a deep sense of remorse.

Antonyms:
1. rejoice. 4. joy.
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re·gret (rĭ-grět')
v. re·gret·ted, re·gret·ting, re·grets

v. tr.

1. To feel sorry, disappointed, or distressed about.
2. To remember with a feeling of loss or sorrow; mourn.

v. intr.
To feel regret.
n.

1. A sense of loss and longing for someone or something gone.
2. A feeling of disappointment or distress about something that one wishes could be different.
3. regrets A courteous expression of regret, especially at having to decline an invitation.


[Middle English regretten, to lament, from Old French regreter : re-, re- + -greter, to weep (perhaps of Germanic origin).]
re·gret'ter n.

Synonyms: These nouns denote mental distress. Regret has the broadest range, from mere disappointment to a painful sense of dissatisfaction or self-reproach, as over something lost or done: She looked back with regret on the pain she had caused her family.
Sorrow connotes sadness caused by misfortune, affliction, or loss; it can also imply contrition: "sorrow for his ... children, who needed his protection, and whom he could not protect" (James Baldwin).
Grief is deep, acute personal sorrow, as that arising from irreplaceable loss: "Grief fills the room up of my absent child,/Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me" (Shakespeare).
Anguish implies agonizing, excruciating mental pain: "I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement" (Abraham Lincoln).
Woe is intense, often prolonged wretchedness or misery: "the deep, unutterable woe/Which none save exiles feel" (W.E. Aytoun).
Heartache most often applies to sustained private sorrow: The child's difficulties are a source of heartache to the parents.
Heartbreak is overwhelming grief: "Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak" (Shakespeare).

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regret (v.)
"to remember with distress or longing," c.1300, from O.Fr. regreter "long after, bewail, lament someone's death," from re-, intensive prefix + -greter, possibly from Frankish (cf. O.E. grætan "to weep;" O.N. grata "to weep, groan"), from P.Gmc. *gretan "weep." Replaced O.E. ofþyncan, from of- "off, away," here denoting opposition + þyncan "seem, seem fit" (as in methinks). The noun is first recorded 1533. Regretfully incorrectly in place of regrettably is attested from 1976.
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Language Translation for : regret
Spanish: lamentar,
German: bedauern,
Japanese: 残念に思う
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^You copied a novel of definitions and highlighted one buried one. :lol: -10 points.

What about these, near the top?
to feel sorrow or remorse for (an act, fault, disappointment, etc.)
imply a sense of sorrow about events in the past, usually wrongs committed or errors made