THINGS THAT CAUSE REGRET IN OLD AGE.

There are things to apply and discard at youthful Age to avoid regrets in your Old Age. Many of those are the very things that cause regret in old age.

DISOBEDIENCE TO PARENTAL ADVICE/ CONTROL

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”Many children learn that there isn’t really anything their parents can do if you stay out late, smoke dope, go to parties, and get into trouble. It feels like it’s all for free, but it’s not. Parents spend their whole lives trying to help you. Helping you with school, assist you establish yourself in the adult world. The help of parents is one of the big differentiators between successful young adults and unsuccessful ones.

Without God, there is no hope, no peace, and no relief from the guilt and stain of sin. In this sermon on life without God from Ephesians 2:1–3 titled “Life Without God,” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones thoroughly explains the pervasiveness of the state of sinfulness derived from the absence of God’s presence. When you are much older you become wiser, and God becomes more real as you see life in a more meaningful way. But don’t wait to get older to start enjoying a relationship with God. Know God when you are young, and build your future with God. Don’t be a young rebel who runs back to God when age catches up.

HABITS/UNHEALTHY CONSUMPTION.

You have only one body to live with all your life. The cigarettes, the alcohol you are abusing, the drugs you are taking, the unhealthy food you’re consuming; all that will destroy you slowly. When you are 50 and lifestyle diseases catch up with you, you will wish you took care of your body when younger, that you exercised more; but now the damage is done.

CHILDHOOD ABORTIONS

Most Youths Has Engaged themselves in several Numbers of Abortions you get pregnant and you are scared. You take the aborting option quickly thinking of that moment then. But when you are much older, you will look back and wish you kept that baby. When you will be rich and successful you will wish that child you gave up on would be around to enjoy the fruits of your hard work. Being a single mother doesn’t mean you can’t make it in life or you can’t find a man in future.

EXTRAVAGANT SPENDING OF RESOURCES.

Getting in the habit of overspending and living outside your means can have a negative impact on your financial health, resulting in: A cycle of debt that can be difficult to break due to interest owed. An impossible environment to save for retirement as you try to keep up. You’re riding on good money during your productive years? Earning good money? Don’t throw away that money in clubs, reckless living, and wasteful shopping. Invest with that money, widen your revenue stream, make that money work for you, and keep it safe to take care of you in your older years. Leave an inheritance for your loved ones so that you will never say “I wish I knew better”

THE BRIDGES YOU BURNED

When we are younger, we care little for relationships, what most think about is getting money and moving up the ladder of success at all cost. Many use and trample on people to progress, they take relationships for granted, messing up bonds, sleeping with people for personal gain. But these bad actions will catch up with you ahead. When you will realize how empty life is without love and friends. When you will have success but no one around you or no one to trust you.

WRONG MARRIAGE PARTNER

When you’re young, check your motives for marrying. Don’t marry to copy your peers, or for social standing or out of pressure. Marry for love and companionship, marry the right person, marry your best friend. For if you marry the wrong person or for the wrong reasons, you will have to put up with that person the rest of your life. Things might get worse between you two; then depression, physical abuse, affairs, pain, shame, court cases, bitterness will define your mid-life years all because you chose the wrong one. Things will get worse when children are involved. Make the right choice of a spouse when you are young.

NEGLECTED/ MISSED OPPORTUNITIES

At our early stage of Life doors will open, and you will get many chances. Many young people let these opportunities go because of fear, laziness, or pride; yet well younger and with more energy is the best time to start a venture and a name for yourself. Some think the opportunities are too big for them. Take advantage of them or one day when you’re older you will want to go back and grab those missed chances.

CHILD REJECTION.

Young man, you impregnated a woman, she told you she’s pregnant with your child. You rejected her and the baby and ran. But years later when you’re 50 something, you will wish you were responsible, you will wish you manned up and became a father to that child. You will see that child excel and become an adult but will have no claim to that grown child who you rejected from the beginning. You will regret being a Dead Beat Dad by choice.

DESTROYED MARRIAGE.

Some couples choose to live apart but remain legally married, perhaps for family reasons. Typically there are issues such as childcare and access and the division of assets that need to be agreed. A separation agreement is a way to formalize these arrangements in a legally binding document. Both partners may experience a sense of failure, loss, and rejection. Children caught in the middle of a broken marriage may suffer from , anxiety, and feelings of abandonment. Emotional distress can have long-lasting effects on mental health, leading to depression, low self-esteem, and even substance abuse.