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Part 2
They all gathered in the library, and handed their essays around. They began to read, startled by some of the choices, and saddened by some of the others.
They had all poured their hearts into these papers, and that made them special.
My Biggest Regret
By Alexander LaVelle Harris
I have done a lot of things I regret, we all do. Some of the things I’ve done were big, some were small. Some affected my life forever, others not at all. But the one I chose to right about changed it forever, in a big and bad way.
See, there was this girl. I loved her, I really did. But I never got up the courage to tell her so, I don’t know why but I didn’t. Maybe because this girl and I weren’t always close and I was afraid she would laugh at me. Or maybe because I have trouble sharing my feelings with people.
Whatever the reason, I didn’t tell her. I also made another mistake at the same time. I kissed a female friend of mine. I’d known this girl forever and it just seemed right. We both knew it wasn’t, that it was wrong. I had a girlfriend and she had a boyfriend, people we cared about deeply.
Still we continued it in secret, until one day the girl I loved found out. She found in a really terrible was too, she walked in on us and then was injured trying to leave the room.
She never forgave me, not that she should. What I did was horrible, I made a big mistake. I wish I could tell her to her face what I feel, but I can’t. I’m still afraid of her laughing at me.
And the one thing that I’ve done that I would change if I could? Hurting her. I would give anything to change that.
Regrets
By J. Osgood
We were asked a question, what’s the one thing we’ve done in the past that we would change if we could?
I thought about it for a long time and came up with the simplest answer. Nothing. I wouldn't change a thing, not even the things I really regret. Why not? Because they’re what make me me.
If I changed even one thing that I’ve done, I wouldn’t be who I am. For every little moment big or small makes you who you are. I don’t know why that is, but it is. So if you even change one thing you forever change who you are.
That’s my answer. I know this paper is short, and that you were probably looking for something else. But I have no other answer, I don’t know another answer. All I know is that you take your downs with your ups. You get what you get, and you can’t change that.
My question is would we really want to?
I Would Have Said I Love You
It was a hard question and a simple one. What’s the one thing I’ve done in
the past that I would change if I could?
It took me a minute, but in an instant I knew the answer. I would have told
him I loved him.
Let me explain. There was this guy, he was the opposite of everything I
usually went for, but I fell for him anyway. We started dating and I fell in
love with, but I never told him.
I could never really find the words to say what I felt, and then it didn’t
matter. He betrayed me, and I broke up with him. But I couldn’t help wonder
if telling him would have changed anything.
Maybe if I said those three little words, I love you, he wouldn’t have done
what he did. I don’t know, but I wish I could. I want to know if there was
anything I could have done to stop him, anything that would have changed
what happened.
I’ll never know, but I do know what I would change.
I would have said I love you.
If I Could Turn Back Time
My answer is not simple. I had a lot of things to choose from, a lot of evil
deeds I can not forgive myself for. But in the end there is one thing I
regret more than anything else.
I would not have hurt the woman I love more than anything else in the world.
I have hurt her in so many ways, and I would do anything to have made that
not happen.
Maybe it would be best if we had never met, but I am too selfish to make that
what I would change. I love her too much, no I would never have let myself
get involved. I wouldn't have let her love me, but I could not have changed
my loving her.
It happened the first time I set eyes on her. I loved her with everything in
me and I will until the day I die, but maybe it would be better for her if
she did not love me. If it would then that's what I want. I want what is
best for her, because I love her that much.
She may not always think so, but I do. That is why I am doing what I am, I
am letting her be free. And if I could I would let her not love me.
That is the one thing I would change if I could turn back time. Because no
matter how much it would hurt be, it would be better for her. She would be
happier.
Mistakes
I recently made the mistake of interfering in something I didn’t understand
at all. I thought that because I was older I knew what was best for my 18
year old daughter. But I didn’t, I did something that caused her
considerable pain. Something she doesn’t know I did.
She was dating a boy I didn't approve of and I knew that she would never
listen to me if I voiced my concerns, so instead I went to him. I convinced
him that it would be in her best interest if he left her alone.
I thought what I did was right and I kept on thinking that until a couple
days ago when I saw how much it really hurt my daughter.
She still doesn’t know what I did, but I will tell her. I was wrong. I had no right to interfere in her relationship. She was happy, that’s all that
really matters.
So what’s the one thing I’ve done in the past that I would change if I
could? I would mind my own business and let my daughter liver her own life.
What I Never Said
I never said I love you. A lot of people don’t, but in my case I never got a
second chance.
The woman I cared very deeply for told me she loved me, but I couldn’t say
it back. I was still hurting from a minor betrayal she had committed. I
would have, once I had forgiven her, but I never got the chance.
She died that night, and ever since I’ve been thinking about what I never
said. I felt it. I loved her dearly, but I was just hurting. I honestly got a second chance.
But I should have known that sometimes you don’t, that it’s what you say and
when you say it that matters. I missed my chance and she never got to know.
Maybe she did know, but she never got to hear the words. And I never got to
say them. I wish I had. I would give anything to say those words to her just
once, but I can’t. I only had once chance and I messed it up.
That’s what I would change given the chance, what I never said.
What Would I Change?
When I started this essay I thought I knew what I would choose, I even
started to write about it. But then I realised I wouldn't change that event
because I don't regret it.
You see, it taught me a lot of unforgettable lessons. It taught me that love
isn't always enough and that in the end you're all you have. It's true. I've
learnt the hard way.
That's what I would change, I would have learnt that lesson without so much
pain. But I wouldn't have changed what taught new that lesson. It was a
perfect act that had horrible consequences, but for a few moments I was the
happiest I've ever been.
I'll never be that happy again, because I can't be. Things changed forever
that night, and I can never go back. That's another thing this essay taught
me. You can't go back, even if you could you really can't. Because if you
change one bad thing you're sure to change a good one as well.
That's why I didn't choose the thing I was going to, because as bad as it
turned out to be it was good to. Very good.
I know I've probably failed this essay because I didn't really pick one
thing that I've done in the past that I would change if I could. I tried,
but I couldn't.
Choices and Mistakes
I hurt someone I love dearly and I regret that more than anything else.
For a long time I had a crush on my best friend. He was the first person who
I ever loved, he was the object of my puppy love. I thought I got over it, I
had fallen in love with a great guy. But one day the chance to have the
other guy presented itself to me.
And despite my wonderful boyfriend, or his girlfriend who was a very good
friend of mine. I gave in to my desire, I carried on a secret thing with him
and I felt terrible about it. But I didn’t stop it, I didn’t know how.
Then one day we were caught. I’ve never felt more terrible in my life than I
did at that moment. I was lucky in the fact that my boyfriend forgave me, he
really is the most wonderful man I’ve ever met. But my friend didn’t.
She broke up with her boyfriend and stopped hanging out with me. That’s what
my idiocy cost me, one of my closest friends/
So what would be the one thing I’ve done in the past that I would change if
I could? I would change hurting them.
I wouldn’t kiss him, I would make the right choice.
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