{"id":577,"date":"2012-05-20T21:28:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T02:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/2012\/05\/20\/those-experiences-have-made-me-who-i-am-today\/"},"modified":"2012-05-20T21:28:50","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T02:28:50","slug":"those-experiences-have-made-me-who-i-am-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/2012\/05\/20\/those-experiences-have-made-me-who-i-am-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Those experiences have made me who I am today&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<style> <!--  \/* Font Definitions *\/ @font-face \t{font-family:Verdana; \tpanose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4; \tmso-font-charset:0; \tmso-generic-font-family:auto; \tmso-font-pitch:variable; \tmso-font-signature:-1593833729 1073750107 16 0 415 0;} @font-face \t{font-family:Verdana; \tpanose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4; \tmso-font-charset:0; \tmso-generic-font-family:auto; \tmso-font-pitch:variable; \tmso-font-signature:-1593833729 1073750107 16 0 415 0;} @font-face \t{font-family:Cambria; \tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; \tmso-font-charset:0; \tmso-generic-font-family:auto; \tmso-font-pitch:variable; \tmso-font-signature:-536870145 1073743103 0 0 415 0;}  \/* Style Definitions *\/ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal \t{mso-style-unhide:no; \tmso-style-qformat:yes; \tmso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmargin-top:0in; \tmargin-right:0in; \tmso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; \tmargin-left:0in; \tmso-add-space:auto; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:12.0pt; \tfont-family:Courier; \tmso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; \tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";} p.MsoNormalCxSpFirst, li.MsoNormalCxSpFirst, div.MsoNormalCxSpFirst \t{mso-style-unhide:no; \tmso-style-qformat:yes; \tmso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmso-style-type:export-only; \tmargin-top:0in; \tmargin-right:0in; \tmso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; \tmargin-left:0in; \tmso-add-space:auto; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:12.0pt; \tfont-family:Courier; \tmso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; \tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";} p.MsoNormalCxSpMiddle, li.MsoNormalCxSpMiddle, div.MsoNormalCxSpMiddle \t{mso-style-unhide:no; \tmso-style-qformat:yes; \tmso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmso-style-type:export-only; \tmargin-top:0in; \tmargin-right:0in; \tmso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; \tmargin-left:0in; \tmso-add-space:auto; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:12.0pt; \tfont-family:Courier; \tmso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; \tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";} p.MsoNormalCxSpLast, li.MsoNormalCxSpLast, div.MsoNormalCxSpLast \t{mso-style-unhide:no; \tmso-style-qformat:yes; \tmso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmso-style-type:export-only; \tmargin-top:0in; \tmargin-right:0in; \tmso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; \tmargin-left:0in; \tmso-add-space:auto; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:12.0pt; \tfont-family:Courier; \tmso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; \tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";} .MsoChpDefault \t{mso-style-type:export-only; \tmso-default-props:yes; \tfont-size:10.0pt; \tmso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; \tmso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; \tfont-family:Courier; \tmso-ascii-font-family:Courier; \tmso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; \tmso-hansi-font-family:Courier;} @page WordSection1 \t{size:8.5in 11.0in; \tmargin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; \tmso-header-margin:.5in; \tmso-footer-margin:.5in; \tmso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 \t{page:WordSection1;} --> <\/style>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpFirst\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">I regret: <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">1.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Coming too late to the realization that my life, my mental health and my soul were important; that I needed to feed all aspects of my being to be complete.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">I have now surrounded myself with positive energies, influences and love.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>It does not erase the past, but it has strengthened me as a being to see where I was, and how life has changed for the better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">2.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Giving others permission to \u201cmake me feel bad\/guilty\/ugly\/stupid\/less than human\u201d: Your privileges have been revoked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">3.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Hiding my emotions; stuffing them deeper and deeper into the recesses of my soul that even now, after allowing myself to feel and love again, those distant emotions are triggered; leaving others scratching their heads and feeling guilt over hurting me&#8230;. It\u2019s not you, it is a distant ghost.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Now that the emotion has surfaced, it can be dealt with and removed from my history.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Be patient, please.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">**note:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Yes, I have regrets, but would not have changed past experiences, whether joyous or painful, for any reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Those experiences have made me who I am today. \u00a0Resilient, positive, loving&#8230;..<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Don\u2019t let your regrets rule your life. Face them, tell the ones you hold closest about them, and let them go. Life\u2019s dark haze lifts and becomes worth living again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Find the strength, the peace, the love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">I\u2019ve found mine&#8230; you can find yours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormalCxSpMiddle\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Submitted by: Audi<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I regret: 1.\u00a0 Coming too late to the realization that my life, my mental health and my soul were important; that I needed to feed all aspects of my being to be complete. I have now surrounded myself with positive energies, influences and love.\u00a0 It does not erase the past, but it has strengthened me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iregret.net\/wp-goodies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}