on things i regret

If I were to join a beauty pageant and the question asked to me is


"Do you have any regrets in your life?"

I would have answered these exact same words....

" I would be lying if I would say there isn't anything that I regret in my life, one time or another all of us must have things we failed to do, perhaps because of fear, or uncertainties. It maybe a dress you didn't buy, or a call you didn't make, it could be a place you didn't go to when you had the chance, even an opportunity that you let pass by. We all have regrets in life, and so do I.

I have few regrets, simple to life altering events. I regret not having a grade of 100 in a major exam that I could have aced if only I wasn't too lazy to give effort in my studies, I regret not having to won that debate contest, I regret not having to dance a lot in my younger years, I regret not painting my feelings on a canvass.

I regret not saying sorry to my friends and enemies I have hurt, I regret not helping someone when I had the chance, I regret not giving my time for someone who needs it the most. I regret not letting my family know my true self, I wish they had known me better and I wish I had known them better. Things would have been different if we acted like a real family.

I regret not having to tell the only boy who had the biggest influence in my life that I did liked him too. That I was just stupid and afraid then, and that I'm sorry for taking him for granted. Things would have been different for the both us even if we didn't end up together,the road we're traveling would have been a little better.

Yes, I do regret a lot of things, but I am not saying that what I have right now is not what I always wanted, I regret these moments, but these have also made me wiser. But then again, giving a thought about these things that I regret, I could have been wiser and at the same time a little happier.

I regret these moments not because I want things the other way around, it just makes me think once in a while about how things could have been if I made a different decision at that moment.

But that's life isn't it? We experience, we fail, we learn, we become better person in the end. Perhaps we let some moment pass us by that could have made us happier than what we are now, but then again there's the bigger future out there, we could still make that bigger space a happier place for us.

So yes, I do regret a few things in life, and that is not a bad thing, as long as you do not let this moments haunt you, but rather it should be a lesson learned that have led you to be a little mature in life. These regretful moments maybe lost forever, but this will help you to not do the same mistakes again. "

But of course in a beauty pageant, you're only allowed to say a one-sentence answer. For some reason they are not allowed to give expounding answers.
That would be like Barbie explaining an algebraic equation. Borrrinng.

So I guess, I'll just have to boil my answer down into one sentence...or maybe two.

" I could say there is nothing that I regret in my life, after all I wouldn't be who I am today if not for everything I've been through. That's all, Thank You! Mabuhay!"

That's three dude.

P.S
"I wish for world peace!"