NeoGAF, share your regrets.

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So I'm sat here, eating a bowl of Cheerios and watching The Office, when my mind randomly starts to wander back to some memories I shared with my ex while we were together and, to be honest, it's really got me depressed. I miss the good times we had and it kills me knowing that we'll never have any more memories like that again and all because I walked away from her. Granted, we both had our part to play in the split, but I shouldn't have walked away so easily.

So, GAF, share your stories of utter despair and regret, and join me in my pit of misery.
 
Cheating on the poor girl when I met the love of my life... She didn't deserve that. Never told her the truth... Just broke up with her.

This and bullying this kid in elementary school. I did send him a letter a few years back and he did accept my apology. But it's still stupid.

Oh and being a lazy funt last semester now I have 2 exams to retake.
 
I was supposed to be moving to Japan in four days for two years. I stayed because of my girlfriend. She broke up with me today. Ugh.
 
Not taking part in the Green Card lottery earlier. Last year might have been the last time ever. :(

Thanks, Obama.


CHusson91 said:
I was supposed to be moving to Japan in four days for two years. I stayed because of my girlfriend. She broke up with me today. Ugh.
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Oh, wow. I'm sorry to hear that. :(
 
boutdown said:
Not regretting.
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I don't regret anything, everything in life has a way of shaping who you are. You learn from your experiences and it's up to you to become a better person because of them.

Though, if there is one thing I can take back it'd be not breaking up with my most recent ex sooner. I was stubborn and thought we could make it work even though it obviously was not going to. I was her first real boyfriend, and I truly hope I didn't scar her for life (We were together five years).
 
Gustav said:
Not taking part in the Green Card lottery earlier. Last year might have been the last time ever. :(

Thanks, Obama.
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Dude you can still come here you just need to be unorthodox. How do you think Mexicans and South Americans come into the States? Fly to juarez, pm me sometime, and I will smuggle you in my vehicle to El Paso.

You wont be able to get insurance and god knows your job outlook viability but you wont pay certain taxes either.

Edit:we can figure out a way to hide you inside the actual seat. The dogs wont find u
 
I try not to have regrets, so I tell people I don't. But really I've just let them all go, because the past is the past and it's not like I can change it.

But I do sometimes regret my choice of majors in college. Journalism has gotten me nowhere afterwards. Student loans kills any ability to move out of my parents house, who have wanted me out for years. Lovingly of course, but I can't afford it even though I work 60 hours a week as a salaried employee. Can't get a 2nd job because I'm on call 24/7 with varying hours.

And all it has gotten me is a $40k piece of paper. Talk about a waste of money. Should've gone into the Marines like I almost did...sigh.
 
Whenever I think about stuff that I kind of regret, I always manage to find a positive in it.

I tried training to be a teacher at one point. It was my life's dream, but instead I ended up having a breakdown 2/3 of the way through the course and had to quit. For a long time I deeply regretted taking the course, marking it down as the biggest mistake I'd ever made.

I'm now working in IT and loving it - I'm earning more money than I ever would have done if I'd stayed in teaching, it's way more fun and way less stress. This is where I'm meant to be, but I might not have found that out if my first career choice hadn't fucked me over. I'm also a stronger person thanks to the course putting me through the wringer on a daily basis - I feel like I grew several years mentally in the space of 9 months.

Everything you go through teaches you something.
 
Not having my blood tested sooner. I spent 25 years living with a condition that made life near impossible to handle. Now that I'm on proper medication I finally realize what feeling healthy and happy is. I regret all the time I wasted, but use it as motivation to ensure that no more time slips away.
 
Being a wuss when I was younger and not pursuing girls that, in retrospect, were clearly interested in me. One of which has become a model, probably the most beautiful girl I've ever seen on top of being awesomely geeky.
 
Not going after the opportunities presented to me in my life, especially when it came to relationships.

Letting my fear of failure ruining the one solid relationship I've had with a girl.

Being a 30 y/o virgin kind of stings too.
 
Didn't date a cute girl who had a crush on me in high school. I kinda wonder where she is now. Missed a chance for a potentially long relationship.
 
I regret failing my A-level, choosing the wrong Uni and course which caused so much time to be wasted, just think I could have been a dentist, married and have a big house had I not been so stupid.
 
Can't say I have any regrets.

Sure If I could turn back time, I'd have done a lot of things differently but you learn things the hard way and by making mistakes.
 
Trusting people too easily in the (even recent) past.. Like someone above said I try and see a positive. At least now I focus in myself first and foremost.

Also playing world of warcraft back when It launched. Little did I know it was my version of heroin (a lot of my friends at the time got into bad crowds/drugs and I escaped to wow).

I try to live my life in a way where I won't regret things when I look back In 5 years, well see how that turns out!
 
I should have done better in school. I was an A-grade student all through primary and into high school (mostly due to my parents pushing me hard to make sure I studied) and then right when it actually started to matter I was just burnt out and decided to get drunk with friends a lot.

I'm back on track now, but I'm still two years behind where I should be at this point.
 
All the mistakes I've made have taught me valuable lessons. Without having made these mistakes before, I'd likely make them eventually anyway. My choices have led me to where I am today, and I'm quite content with how things are going. With this in mind, I have just one true regret:

I regret not taking action upon noticing a close friend was desperately in need of help. It's too late and it will always be too late.
 
Not sure if it was a regret so much as a mulligan but anyway...

When I was going to Pitt my buddy from High School was going out with a nice quiet girl that he had lost interest in. I told him I was interested and he instantly gave me the green light so we started dating. She would hang out with my friends and rarely talked and just observed. She would stay over nights in my dorm room.

Took her to a party at my older brothers about 45 minutes away. He has a history of harassing people. I basically told her to keep her distance and we made it official by hooking up.

After that semester, my parents retracted their 18 year promise of paying for school so I had to go home. I never got to say good bye or explain the situation to her. I'm sure the long distance thing probably wouldn't have worked out anyway, but that's really not my style. I regret not ending things on better terms. I'm sure she was like WTF!
 
It's mostly about not getting laid enough in my teenage years/college years but It's a minor regret.

If I had one it would be that I started high school and College way too young. I often fell out of place because I was years younger than most people and way more inexperience which made it hard for me to hang out and made friends.

I regret the bad relationship I had with my father, which I also see it as part of why I had a step back in my way to maturity.

Otherwise, I dunno. What's done is done. I can't really change the past.
 
I want to regret that I hadn't spent more time with a friend I'll be saying good-bye to today but I can picture him saying "it is what it is" and wanting me to accept how things have happened.

But I really wish that last hug lasted longer.
 
I regret majoring in Physics and Astronomy, I wish I would have majored in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science.
 
I got married once.

Never, ever, ever again. Fucking ever. Never, not even fucking once am I ever getting married again, ever.
 
Oh now that I think about. Maybe returning to college wasn't the best course of action.

When I leaved College I had zero Debt, but decided I wanted to keep going. I also put my Ex-shitty job over college so I failed a lot of classes then the new law was enforced and I lost my PELL. So now I'm 25-30 dollars in debt with an useless Art Degree (useless because they only gave me 3 courses on Graphic Design, a very competitive career but pretty much the only one that could secure me a job in here), so even though I finished it I'm not exactly qualified in my opinion.

Also my College ask money for the graduation and Diploma. So I have literally nothing to show.
 
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