It seems that younger people regret things they've done and older people regret things they haven't done.

Notice how 99% of the adult's regrets start with 'not'. You don't regret what you did, you regret what you didn't do. Take a chance in life and do what you're scared to do!

People who didn't go to school regret not going. People who went to school regret not trying harder. People who tried hard regret not enjoying their time. There's always positives and negatives to our choices, best to focus on the positive rather than regret the negative.

Did anyone else feel that man's pain as he regretted not giving his father more ice cream before he passed? As a doctor, please, give your dying loved ones all the ice cream they want. Breakfast, lunch, snack, dessert.

"Not giving my father more ice cream before he died" It really is the little things in life..

"I wish I knew when I was younger...how wonderful I was" Self-love is a constant learning process.

I'm 22 and my one regret is waiting. Waiting for a "perfect time" before I do something, anything. Waiting for an opportunity to come by. Waiting for other people to catch up to me. Waiting for a perfect moment to say what I need to say. And many many more. So I guess, if there's any take away it's to just stop waiting. Because yeah good things come to those who wait but remember that greater things come to those who make it happen.

I'm 42, and the one about not knowing how wonderful I was when I was younger really hit me. I think if I regret anything, it's spending so much time worrying about what other people think of me.

"Fear is temporary, regret is forever" -very cool words

So the 5-year-old's biggest regret is having to answer her biggest regret when she could be at the playground instead 😂

I really resonate with the 31 year old. I'm 19 now, my biggest regret was watching peers around me get made fun of, excluded, alienated, etc in middle/high school and not doing anything about it. It wasn't my fault that they were bullied but I feel that to an extent I'm also responsible for seeing and allowing it to happen. It breaks my heart thinking about how it may have affected these kids having to come to a place 5 days a week for 7 hours where they don't even feel like they belong. Stand up for people, you never know how much it can mean to someone for even just one person to show that they care.

i turned 22 yesterday. Still have not got much thing to regret, but as I saw this video, I realize that I HAVE to try more things. Before my fear turns into regret

47 made me cry. I feel that way too much. "I wish I knew, when I was younger... how wonderful I was"

The regrets are getting more and more depressing each age

The first kid is absolutly right... life's a playground or nothing🖤

I’m 21. I try not to live with regrets, I believe everything happens for a reason and whatever happens in our lives shapes us into the people we are at present. That being said I do regret not living in the moment at times in my life. Too much time overthinking, being distracted, etc. Learning to put the phone down will really help with that

My regret: Living in the past and future and abandoning the present

my biggest regret is acting too much like a grownup when i was only a little child...

I’m 18 and my three biggest regrets probably are: 1) Not being more social and active in high school. 2) Quitting sports 3) Not asking out the girl I liked before she moved away.

It seems no matter what you do you would regret something. Whatever choice you happen to make, you’ll miss out on the other. So you might as well focus your energy on what you’re grateful for rather than regrets. ❤

The fact that this video is only five minutes long and goes through 70 years of people makes me realize how fast we age and how fast our lives fly by.

This actually scares me a little. I spend so much time studying that I'm afraid I'm missing out on so much things.

i am 17 almost 18 now, and the regret that haunts me the most is not spending my last 5 years intensively cultivating my passions: music and art. i have always been aware of my potential, but i struggle to live up to it because of distractions and poor time management. so, i regret not investing in myself at an early age, thus becoming really technically good at my crafts. but lately i'm starting to think that there's a reason behind this: true awareness in our interests and possibilities come naturally at the right time in our lives (and cannot be forced), perhaps i just needed to gain mindfulness, experience and a hit of regret in order to get things going. especially for emotionally-based disciplines, which i'm interested in. and by the way, i'm still very young and i know can go far, if i set my mind to it.

I’m about to turn 29 in a few days. My biggest regret is not standing up for myself more. There were times I should have pushed back against people’s abuse and there were times I should’ve just walked away with my dignity.

Understand how 'not doing something' is the BIGGEST reason here. Trust me, failure will not hurt as much as regret will. Like come on, life is an adventure, so live it like one!

“The days are long but the years are short” was an old phrase that came into my mind when I watched this video

I regret not dating when I was younger. I then learnt the hard way what people can be about, narcissism, gas lighting , abuse, I just didn’t have the tools to identify red flags nor did I have a point of reference…. It took me years to grow my emotional intelligence cause I also always avoided people and drama and also I learnt to trust myself more. Now I’m with the man not of my dreams cause he’s way better than what my mind could concoct.

1:16 that hits hard. I was also 24-25 when my dad died and it still haunts me how little I spent time with him.

I'm gonna regret staring at my phone 24/7

"my second marriage" You can hear his pain. Hope you're in a better place now buddy.

I am 18 years old and I regret two things: 1-not having lived my adolescence in the best way and not having made friends because of my social anxiety 2-not having taken advantage of all the free time I had as a child and adolescent to learn and do new things

24 here. My regret is letting my dissapointment in some people bother me so much that I turned cold to society. I became disassociated with many things I used to identify myself with because of it. I burned lots of bridges along the way and it hurts. I recently started talking to old friends again and going beyond my ways to recover my friendships before they vanish.

I’m 50. My two main regrets when I was younger are that I regret people pleasing and also allowing people to define who I thought I was. Live your life. There are 8 billion people on the planet and if you met every single one, all of them would have a different opinion of you and none would be correct.

5-15 - childish things 16-35 - career related regrets 36 - 60 - emotional (friends and family) related regrets 61+ - regrets about abandoned dreams

At 30 - growing up with the tendency to not ask questions or ask for help, out of fear of looking stupid or bothering people. The amount I don't know what I don't know because of this feels immense.

I am 27 and I regret letting things go/giving things up too easily such as relationships and goals. I didn’t realize how easy it was to convince myself that it's not meant to be or I gave enough try and then let go of it. Now that I look back, I didn’t try hard enough.

It’s interesting how none of these regrets really included money - which is what a lot of us are chasing nowadays. None of them said “I regret not making enough money...”. Sending love to everyone.

The one where the guy regrets "not giving more ice cream to his dad" 3:22, is probably the saddest one. Sometimes small things can really leave huge impacts.

I'm 27 and I regret not having more empathy for strangers. I used to be a lot kinder when I was younger, and fixing that is going to be a lifelong process.

We need to appreciate the elderly more and listen to them and thier experiences, they went through bad experiences so we don’t have to. Spend more time with your elders before it’s too late, they’re precious

Notice how most regret the things that they *didn’t* do.

I regret not doing things because of my anxiety

That 10yr old girl with *"GETTING ANGRY ON MY FAMILY SOMETIMES"* as a Regret She's far more ahead in life than most of the adults

I'm 37 and all that I can say is that any regrets I have in life will not be used to mourn them, but to help and support my kids so that they do not have the same list as me.

"Not knowing how wonderful I was when I was younger." That rocked me to the core.

My Regret? Not buying Bitcoin at $5 when a friend of mine told me about it in 2012.

As a 20 year old, I have a vicious cycle, in which I constantly regret not doing certain things earlier even though I'm aware that my life is barely starting and I still have a lot of time to do plenty of things. I just have this belief that there's a stage in life for everything, and I feel frightened that, just as now there are things I want to do, but should've started doing when I was younger, I may not do things that I'm the right age to do, and will later be regretting it.

This video is a massive wake up call for me about doing what what’s expected of me and making sure I don’t regret not chasing my dreams.

Saying"No" when I should have said "Yes". Saying "Yes"when I should have said "No".

It gets darker and darker...youth really is a time full of innocence while the older you get the more tainted you become with reality. Best to find the balance between the two.

I was considering a drastic career change in my late 30s and a friend told me that in the end, you only regret the things you didn't try. I quit my job that week and love my new career.

I'm 20. Biggest regret is letting my social life die after highschool. Theres just so many new pressures to deal with in adulthood that it became so easy to let old friendships die off.

"most of your problems have two main reasons - acting without thinking or thinking without acting" Quora user 2021

I’m almost 27 and my biggest regret: wasting my time with people that didn’t have the best intentions for me. It’s haunting.

I’m not even past my twenties yet, but my biggest regret I think is being alone. I’ve been way too picky with people and I know that a lot of them could have been friends with me for a long long time, but I just never gave people a chance to get to know them before making a judgment. I convinced myself that the right person had just not showed up yet, and even if they did, they wouldn’t stick around for a long time (or after college) Now I don’t have any friends and I’m kind of re-learning how to know how to not be picky without being gullible. And it’s so much harder to have a good friendship without school anymore.

"Being frightened of so many things when I was younger". Yep, that hits me the most.

This shouldn't scare anyone, it should inspire you and encourage you do the things you always wanted to while you're still here. Chase your dreams.

At 20, my biggest regret is not living our lives to the fullest when my friends were still single. Now, most of them are in a relationship, planning their future we used to plan with each other.

My biggest regret is letting people treat me bad just to be around someone, then base my self worth off of how they treat me. I'm 29 and I'm now learning to let go of toxic relationships, including family, and surrounding myself with loving people.

63 lady has the most soothing voice ever. I want to go to aroma therapy classes with her

"A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams." -Yiddish proverb

I'm 21. My biggest regret and probably will remain my biggest regret is not even mine to regret, but my parents', how they raised me and how detrimental their parenting was on me

"not staying in touch with people" and "being afraid of so many things resonated with me! i am going to call my uncle now.

This video makes me think about the choices I made in my life and the choices I'll make in life and it kinda scares me

'Not giving my father more ice cream before he died' UR CRYING, NOT ME

You don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do. Words to live by

3:57 what the lady said speaks to me. I have regrets and usually don't dwell much about them. Though through this video I get to think about my current life situation and what change I could have been doing before I build a tower of regrets.

This was an eye opener. I regret not doing so many things yet I'm still fairly young. This is scary.

51: my second marriage -- that's low key savage tho

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how elegant and youthful the seniors in this video are?!

17 years old here, and I regret all of the dumb things I have done. I just want to give up with the position I am in right now, but I know I won't sooner or later because of the acknowledgement that the pain will be passed on to others. I have learned to love yourself, but I don't know how...

"Being frightened of so many things when I was younger" - that touched hard & motivated! Thank you Miss (63)

My father passed away when I was 16. To this day I can't remember telling him how much I loved him. My only regret is not telling him every day. That was 46 years ago.

It's curious how a lot of these are related to time, or, more specifically running out of it. A lot of are either about decisions they didn't make in the time they were given or are related to people that are important to them running out of lifetime and dying. Really makes me think about how time is such a valuable resource...

I am 33, what I regret most are not watching and growing up with my favorite Disney movies and not playing the sequels of Kingdom Hearts at 15 and beyond as soon as they all released, I was destroyed mentally, spiritually and physically at 15 years that it took me 14-18 years to reclaim my inner self. I didn’t heal at all just I got back my old self. My sufferings truly wrecked my life and my youth, I began to be so depressed I even changed into a different and a very miserable person. It took me so many years to return to who I really was and am. I finally beat all the Kingdom Hearts games and watched my favorite Disney movies within the last 4 years and 2 movies at 2016!!!!

Eat healthy, do exercise, take vitamin tabs and sleep well. That's what I've done and it's my 90th birthday next week. 😊

that 20 year old dude who said "I regret taking myself too seriously when I was in highschool" danggg I can feel that too aahhaha

I needed this. A friend sent this to me on Voicely and we've been discussing it for a couple of days now, the topic is super interesting

I really want age 74 to tell me what he knows now... I'm 18 years old and I would really appreciate and listen. You may not be able to tell it to your young self but maybe you can find a young persosn who is really willing to listen, like me!

“Not staying single longer.” Her spouse watching this: 👁👄👁

This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my KZfaq channel 3 months ago about self development. Now I have 198 subs and almost 90 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I couldn’t have learned without getting started in the 1st place.

I’m 25, I think my biggest regrets are making the choices of friends I did, not speaking up when people said or did bad things, not realizing I was trans earlier, not getting help an accommodations in school earlier because maybe I would have more of an academic future, and not taking my cat to the vet earlier because maybe they could’ve treated or cured her congenital conditions and she’d be here with me now.

“What’s your biggest regret” “Not staying single longer” Dang that girl must not like her husband lol

I regret how I dated every person that told me they had feelings for me ignoring the fact that I didn’t even like them back.

“One time by accident….I kicked someone” Me too kid 😪 me too. Waiting for a bridge to lower so we could walk across, didn’t realize a 75 yr old man was standing right behind me & i ballet kicked straight back almost knocking the poor guy over😂😭 thank goodness for hand rails cuz he caught himself

I'm 17 who is about to turn 18 , and my biggest regret is ruining friendships and relationships because of the things I've done and said. As a result, I see myself as a bad person and sometimes fear that I'll end up ruining more than I already have.

Most of the regrets are related to School or College..this shows how much our teenage life is important for us :-)

Most people should’ve been who they were meant to be!

my age is irrevelant but my, by far, biggest regret is not letting my grandma know how much I loved her and that deep down I cared about her with my whole soul. It’s been 2 years since her passing and my regret is so big, I cry every time I think about her.

You are who you are and every decision you ever made is the best you could have done with the knowledge and situations at that point of your life. Sometimes these decisions stay with us in the form of guilt. There will always be something to be guilty about, its a part of life, its because you are human and its how you learn and grow. Hoping to have made no mistakes in life is like wishing for something humanely impossible. So please forgive yourself and allow yourself to live your best.

63 - i love her voice

I regret missing out on fun opportunities because of my social anxiety

I am 26, and pretty much everything between like 20 and 39 made me feel like that was amongst my peers. The guy who appeared at age 40 made a huge transition on what I was watching here.

Not listening to myself at times in life when I should have. This is the most important one I think.

22: "not taking a chances" 26: "i wish i knew what i really wanted to do earlier" 27: "not getting into computer science at an earlier age" 55: "not listening to my self at times in life when i should have"

It says quite a lot that almost everyone one of them started with "not..." We're more likely to regret inaction.

I am 46, at a point of looking back at my life...what i have and not have done. I am blown away by all your comments here people. I am glad it's never too late to make it up...

The best one for me is. "I am who I am because of the things I did, I wouldn't go back and change anything."

To future self: Ask your crush out soon, they may have also liked you all those years

Biggest regret, broke an amazing girl’s heart