Do you ever regret about something that ever happened to you? You thought to go back to the past with doraemon tools and changed it into anything you guessed better, so you stopped yourself from feeling regret?
Regret is a sadness or disappointment related to something we did not expect to happen. For me, regret would appear when I failed to get what I really wished or I thought I should do another things, instead of what I have done.
Talking about regret, it reminds me with my experience in 2009. I was a high school graduate who dreamed to be a psychologist for the next four years. I worked very hard at that time. The night before the test on Friday, 5th of June 2009, I got a bad news when my grandma died after two weeks hospitalized. Since I had been so close with her, it depressed me a lot. I could not concentrate with my test on Saturday, even I fell asleep during the test. At that time I was asking God, “How could it happen to me?”
Several weeks after the funeral, I got my result. I was not accepted in my first choice but fourth, faculty of agriculture, the choice I did not really hope. My parents knew that my grandma’s death affected me. they advised me to take diploma test. I agreed with them. I applied for accounting since it was the most wanted program in diploma.
In August 2009, I began my first year as a new college student. I did not request much since I never learned accounting in advance. I was a careless person, somehow when I studied accounting, I found myself be more careful. Not only in working for the financial statement, but also for my daily life. Eventually I was comfortable with my routine. I was happy to God’s choice for me. I promised to myself that I would stop regretting.
In 2010, I began my second semester with positivity. I took several courses to support my ability to join the university exam in the middle of the year. I chose accounting for my undergraduate degree. When the result came by, I was accepted in University of Sumatera Utara in accounting major. I restarted my first year with happiness and confidence, I joined organization, I met great people, and finally I am here, in front of you with smile on my face.
I could not imagine if I changed something in my past. Would it be better? I am so grateful with what I have now. I got great experiences in my previous organization when I became a journalist, I could not have it if I accepted in my first choice, psychology. I would not be the winner of two accounting essays competition if I was not an accounting student. There were a lot experiences that would never happen if I regret the God’s choice. The most important, I would not be here and deliver my fourth project if I chose different thing in my past.
Regret will change nothing. Surely by now I know that everything happens for a reason, there is something better awaiting us on the other side of every unwanted situation, so let’s STOP REGRETTING!