Don’t you hate it when people tell you you’re going to have regrets over something?

I do! I don’t have any relationship with my dad and I don’t care to because he abandoned my mom after learning she was pregnant with me. Still, I have always been told that I will regret not reaching out to him, but I’m a grown woman now and I‘ve never regretted it. Then I recently dropped out of college because I’ve been working hard at it for years but have little to nothing to show for it. Now people tell me I’m going to regret not finishing, but I really don’t think I’m going to regret it as much as I’m regretting even bothering with college. I have loads of regret over things I’ve done or haven’t done in life, but not one of them were from anyone else telling me so. They’re things I’ve realized all on my own, which is what defines what a regret is all about. So how are other people going to tell you what you‘re going to regret something? To me, it just feels like I’m being judged. Like they’re saying I’m in the wrong for not knowing my dad or dropping out of college and will look back on it and agree someday. Maybe I will, but for that’s for me to determine, not anyone else. What if I don’t? What if they’re wrong? Do they ever stop to consider that?