What things do you regret?
 

What things do you regret?

Be aware that I'm going to go a bit personal here.

I regret not telling how i feel to the first girl i ever had feelings for how i feel about her.

I went through 2 years without telling her. Now, that i have left school, and she went to a different college to me, i don't see her anymore. I try texting her as a general conversation, nothing. I try Facebook, nothing. If i did tell her, nothing might have even happened, but at least i would get it off my system.

One thing which I will not say because it can never be corrected and there's no sense dwelling on it.

Except that one thing....I regret nothing in my life.

I have plenty of regrets, but I don't dwell on them and just look to the future. Everyone has something that they regret in life, but the key is to just move on and try to focus on the here and now. If you keep dwelling on what you regret, it will consume you, and that's not a good thing.

I regret telling some girl's boyfriend that we were seeing each other behind his back.

He knew, but I still should have just dismissed that relationship swiftly and quietly.

Nice one Bubbly. I was thinking the same thing.

Yeah, I may have had past regrets, but I don't even remember them, but I don't regret anything at the moment, and that's good.

As long as you learn from your mistakes, you'll live a life without regrets.

A person in my life would have deserved more attention. I regret it deeply. Now it's too late.

I regret not getting my work done on time and it's because I like to go slow. I think the only way to get it done is to do it quickly but I like to think that slow and steady wins the race.

I regret not learning quick enough that being the nice guy only gets you so far. I had a serious problem with putting everyone else before me regardless of how much I was entitled or how much they didn't deserve it; I sacrificed a lot of what I wanted and its kind of left me with nothing now.

Beeing meek is a good quality to have, but you need to know when to fight for what you want. I wish I learned that a long, long time ago.

I regret not taking advantage of opportunities when they presented themselves. Not ending relationships sooner. Not buying those kick-ass rocketship flannel sheets back in the day.

I think it's shortsighted to assume 'regret' means "Something That Keeps You Up At Night," rather than a mistake you've learned from and won't duplicate in the future.

I don't think having regrets automatically means you're unhappy with where you are.

I regret many, many things...but for today, it was eating that goddamned chocolate pastry.:ohwell:

I regret nothing. Nothing.

Every mistake is a lesson.

Every pain is a lesson.

Every hurt is a lesson.

You are who you are right now because of the sum of every regrettable thing you have ever done. So, don't regret it.

Without those things, you would not be who you are.

I prefer to think of them as life lessons over regrets. Everyone has things they wish they had done differently. Just try not to make the same mistake twice.

Starting animal crossing.

I regret stopping it. When I think of all those cockroaches in my house...

Ditto, and don't forget the weeds...but you can always get the ghost for that one.

Rushing into home ownership. My house is practically falling down around my ears...and there's little we can do about it.

Oh dude I'm sorry. You've certainly got friends if you ever need to vent. That has to be stressful.

It's not as bad as it sounds...but it's certainly an old house that needs some repairs that we can't afford at the moment.

Yeah, but that still sucks, Jester. I just hope things work out for you soon.

Try to not think of this as much or it will drive you crazy, it is true what everybody says once you get a house you are always fixing something, make a list prioritizing the things that need to be fixed sooner and go from there little by little even if it takes years at some point you'll see it all start to come together, something's are also easy fixes that you can do yourself for a lot less money, or you can learn by checking out some you tube vids. We bought a fixer 5 years ago and we are still working on it but I try to do most of the handy work myself and I also do the contracting. If I save some money on some projects I get to spend it on the other projects that I really can't do myself.

What DVD was it?

This may seem rather trivial, but I wish I'd held onto all the Mystery Science Theater episodes I taped off Scify some years ago. I had over half of those, I think. If Shout!factory ever makes a complete set of the episodes featuring Mike Nelson, I'd buy those. Joel is great but Mike tends to make me laugh harder for some reason. Sorry, the name KROW made me think of mst3k. And by the way, KROW, what DVD was it?! Don't do the 2 month hiatus thing and leave us in suspense lol! Yeah I see allot of great bargain buys at Walmart and never give in. Too many regrets to list on that front!

Sorry for the bump .-.

If I had to regret anything, it would be going to a yard sale and finding that $2 SNES that came with A Link to the Past and Mortal Kombat 3 (it came with controllers and cords. The whole thing including the games was $2 altogether). Not being a Zelda fan at the time, I didn't really get it, so I sold it for about $20.

Damn.

I'm regretting telling something that was supposed to be a secret. I didn't know it was supposed to be a secret and I feel really bad about it.

I think I have a lot of regrets, but what can I do? I just keep moving forward and let the past be past. :)

But there's one thing I'd like to share though and that is when I forgot about the turtles and so now I missed buying figures that were probably a lot cheaper before. :lol:

I feel the same way. I could have a nice set of NECA Turtle figures for £12 each, but i started to focus on other things, and when i came around to getting them, they were too rare and expensive.

That is exactly the figures I was talking about... *sigh*

Being too damn stubborn to try to stop her or saying anything when things came to a head with my ex.

Not knowing I was bi earlier in life. Upon reflection, I know I was bi all along and just didn't realize it.

Not staying in college.
Not living life more.

Man I could write all day about my regrets.

Ditto that.

My regret is that I spent so much of my life being ruled by my fear of failure - not having confidence in myself, not liking myself and basing my decisions and self-worth on arbitrary societal standards, on what I thought other people would approve of, not on what I wanted to do or be.

But hey, it's in the past, and I've overcome it. :)

My most immediate regret is that I allowed my mother's cat to fall asleep on my lap, and now I can't move without waking her. :lol:

I have some regrets, and one of the biggest is that I don't get to see my little girl, as she currently lives in Iowa. She was adopted at birth by a friend of mine and her partner/wife, and I don't regret that decision, but they moved up north several years ago, so now I don't get to watch her grow up.

Another regret is that I didn't go to college (aside from a short-lived attempt to take on-line classes a few years ago). However, if I'd gone to college, I never would have gotten together with my husband, who is my best friend and is probably the best thing that ever happened to me, in spite of his health problems and our financial situation. So I guess there was a silver lining there. But I wonder how my life would have been different if I'd gone.

That would've been a hard decision to make. :(

Hear ya about the lapcat thing, Penny! Happens with mine all the time. Seriously, I think we've all been there when it comes to basing a few decisions on societal standards. That can be a pretty tough snare to escape on occasion. For me it was stuff like finding a wife, starting a family, etc. Society seems to say you've got to be married at such and such an age and making this or that amount of money. You have to have x amount of kids. Stuff like that. I think I quit worrying about all that stuff in my early/mid twenties when I started losing folks I cared about to terminal illnesses. Life's way too short to think about all that when I should be enjoying it with those I've got left. The other stuff started falling into place anyway, so the societal standards proved to be a big waste of time for me. I wish I could go back and kick my younger self in the...

Yeah, I hate that whole thing too. Mom and I were in Walmart last week and this elderly gentleman came up to us and started talking to us. He asked if I was married and I said no. Then he asked if I'd ever been married and I said no. He said, "Well how are you going to give your mom grandkids?" I stated that I didn't want kids and I didn't want to get married because it's just not for me. He was a nice guy, and I certainly don't hate him, but it just kind of bothered me the way he said it like I'm expected to get married and have kids when I don't want any of that.

Another regret, and this is probably going to sound really stupid... that I allowed my social anxiety to deter me from going to Otep's concert when she played here the other year - and that I missed the opportunity to see/meet in person someone who's a big deal to me.

I know that sounds really minor, but she's my favourite musician, will probably never play here again, and her music played a really big part in my life when I was going through the absolute worst patch of my entire life (it sounds really emo to say "I felt like she was the only one who understood what I was feeling", but in this case it's true).

Yeah, I was like that too several years ago. We're talkin back in HS. Doesn't sound stupid at all. Mine had to do with being abused physically as well as verbally by others. Got tuns better in college. I let the moronic behavior of a few get in the way of allot of things, actually. Simpsons and MST3K really helped through the worst of that. Seriously regret not telling parents or teachers about that kind of stuff now though. Probably could have gotten close to allot more people.

I found an electric guitar at a fair today, and I regretted not buying that guitar.