RealisticPillow
Banned
Breaking someone's heart.
NeoGAF, share your regrets.
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bitoriginal
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Smoking weed. Ten years later and I still haven't kicked the habit. The lethargy and potential mental health issues it introduced to my life weren't worth it. I knew I was making a lifestyle choice but damn, what an idiot.
lastflowers
Banned
pushing people away that are close to me. Not opening up to family and seeking to learn from my family's history while they were still alive.
Not ever knowing what I want. Being constantly afraid of failure. Not taking action for fear of being disliked.
Not ever knowing what I want. Being constantly afraid of failure. Not taking action for fear of being disliked.
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Jotamide
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Mostly, things I didn't do. Not things I did.
Darth Pinche
Member
Not seeing Speed Racer in IMAX.
Aside from that, I'm good.
Aside from that, I'm good.
lastflowers
Banned
wow, I said that same thing yesterday with a friend. Bizarro coincidence
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
Not learning to my full capacity and slacking in my studies, I get pissed off with myself so bad. I know I can do better I just have no motivation.
Not having the balls to ask the girl I've liked for ~3 years out. Now we couldn't be further apart, though in honesty I think it's better like that.
Just in general not taking risks/opportunities in life, I complain about my life being boring but never go out and do something.
Not having the balls to ask the girl I've liked for ~3 years out. Now we couldn't be further apart, though in honesty I think it's better like that.
Just in general not taking risks/opportunities in life, I complain about my life being boring but never go out and do something.
Only two really both when I was younger, I regret turning down an audition for that awful live action TMNT show, because the show being terrible aside, it still afforded potential opportunity that I will never know. The other is a lot more down to earth, I feel I missed a neat opportunity when I didn't join my high school wrestling team. It was a missed opportunity mainly because my HS wrestling coach was an Olympic Gold Medalist. That wrestling background would have certainly helped in my current Brazilian Jiu-jitsu training.
Yeah that's about it.
Yeah that's about it.
That's easier said than done, friend.
The Horror the horror
Banned
Hmm, let's see:
1.) Picking a crappy major because it was an easy exit out of college. I've yet to benefit from this major other than to tell jobs that I do have a bachelors degree, which is the bare minimum for most salaried positions around here.
2.) Not having more sex in high school and college, despite numerous displays of interest exhibited by a few girls. I was severely underweight and it affected by self-esteem and self-confidence to the point that I didn't think anyone could possibly like me outside of my few friends.
3.) Suffering from trust-issues due to the reason above and because of my parents' divorce. Pushed everyone away, even those that had sincere interest in getting to know me better.
4.) A lawyer from a prestigious firm in Washington D.C. offered me a job while I was attending a trial for a class project. I told her I already had a job at Best Buy, and she walked away.
5.) Squadered 4 years in the military on an MOS (0311) that amounted to dog shit in the real world.
6.) Not being there for my little brother, and being a better role model after our father left us. Now he's a full-blown alcoholic, drifting in the wind somewhere, living hand to mouth and has distanced himself from everyone.
1.) Picking a crappy major because it was an easy exit out of college. I've yet to benefit from this major other than to tell jobs that I do have a bachelors degree, which is the bare minimum for most salaried positions around here.
2.) Not having more sex in high school and college, despite numerous displays of interest exhibited by a few girls. I was severely underweight and it affected by self-esteem and self-confidence to the point that I didn't think anyone could possibly like me outside of my few friends.
3.) Suffering from trust-issues due to the reason above and because of my parents' divorce. Pushed everyone away, even those that had sincere interest in getting to know me better.
4.) A lawyer from a prestigious firm in Washington D.C. offered me a job while I was attending a trial for a class project. I told her I already had a job at Best Buy, and she walked away.
5.) Squadered 4 years in the military on an MOS (0311) that amounted to dog shit in the real world.
6.) Not being there for my little brother, and being a better role model after our father left us. Now he's a full-blown alcoholic, drifting in the wind somewhere, living hand to mouth and has distanced himself from everyone.
Herbspiceguy
Member
I try not to regret anything, it keeps me in the past.
None, really. Make a mistake, learn from it, don't do it again. No sense in beating yourself up. Maybe down the road I'll have a really big 'shoulda known' kind of moment. But nothing now.
EDIT: stuminus3 is right. God damn smoking. God damn me for starting. That is what I should have known.
EDIT: stuminus3 is right. God damn smoking. God damn me for starting. That is what I should have known.
SkepticalPanda
Member
I think I'm too young to regret some things in life. There is a few things that I regret though:
Not wearing my glasses when I was younger. The optometrist told me that I'm essentially blind in my right eye and that I'll never see out of it again. When I asked why she said I wasn't using the eye so it assumed it could just, I donno, go to sleep. Fuck you eye, bitch. Now I'm stuck wearing big glasses because my lenses are huge. I asked her if I could pay for any surgery to correct my eye and she said no. Feels bad.
Wishing I paid more attention during my younger years in school. Getting older now and nearly finishing school and I feel like if I had tried harder when I was younger I might have maintained that level of motivation. Now I just have the typical "fuck everyone, fuck school, fuck life" attitude associated with teenagers. Nobody likes me for it, not that I'm a bad person. I'm just lazy as shit and not motivated at all to achieve.
Overall, not much to regret but I suppose it will only get worse as it goes on. After reading some of the stuff in this thread, I don't think I want to get old.
Not wearing my glasses when I was younger. The optometrist told me that I'm essentially blind in my right eye and that I'll never see out of it again. When I asked why she said I wasn't using the eye so it assumed it could just, I donno, go to sleep. Fuck you eye, bitch. Now I'm stuck wearing big glasses because my lenses are huge. I asked her if I could pay for any surgery to correct my eye and she said no. Feels bad.
Wishing I paid more attention during my younger years in school. Getting older now and nearly finishing school and I feel like if I had tried harder when I was younger I might have maintained that level of motivation. Now I just have the typical "fuck everyone, fuck school, fuck life" attitude associated with teenagers. Nobody likes me for it, not that I'm a bad person. I'm just lazy as shit and not motivated at all to achieve.
Overall, not much to regret but I suppose it will only get worse as it goes on. After reading some of the stuff in this thread, I don't think I want to get old.
threetri333
Banned
Not pursuing passions..
Mister Wilhelm
Member
OT is pretty negative in general but threads like these are uplifting to me because they make my milestone fuck ups feel less terrible.
That said, I would love to see a best decisions thread.
that1dude24
Member
sharing your regrets can be useful for other people reading your post. typing them out can further your resolve to not repeat the same mistakes.
remaining in emotionally abusive friendships and relationships to fit in.
not realizing how hollow and unsatisfying the above relationships are. thinking that it'd get better.
letting myself identify as a guitarist.
thinking that it matters if i'm perceived as nerdy.
avoiding math and programming due to the above. avoiding numerous intellectual opportunities pre-college for the same reason.
smoking weed regularly and letting it make me apathetic and unmotivated. the forgetfulness that paired with.
Featheredkitten
Banned
Not talking about more important things when my husband was dying, I couldn't really face that it was happening until days after it did. Now I regret that I didn't tell him how much he really meant to me.
Cheating on my son's father, I'm better than that, and he didn't deserve that no matter how much we didn't/don't get along.
Cheating on my son's father, I'm better than that, and he didn't deserve that no matter how much we didn't/don't get along.
umop_3pisdn
Member
Mostly just being an asshole at various times in my life.
PanicFreak
Member
I have a pretty good direction in life right now and I haven't been in the real world long enough to have any regrets about my career so:
- I cheated on a girl once. I loved her but we were in very different places in life. I was getting back into college (after two years off) and she was going for a doctorate.
- I should have taken time off between high school and college because I had no idea what I wanted out of life. Instead I fucked around for two years, blew my schooling and THEN took two years off of school.
- I shouldn't have dated that girl in high school. Should have seen other women and not been such a pushover.
- I shouldn't have taken the easy Algebra 2 teacher. That class derailed my mathematics education. I was a whizz with numbers and I could have done anything I wanted, physics, engineering, anything. Instead I'm doing finance.
I regret making friends with the wrong fucking people. I regret coming into peoples lives and being the complete and utter fucking disappointment I am. I regret trying to make people happy when I know full well all I do is let them down, time after fucking time. I regret being there for people when people were never there for me. I regret trying to fit in when I knew I never stood a fucking chance. I regret not being enough for people or nothing at all to others. I regret being born.
In terms of regrets being mistakes that I have made, there are too many to list. Life is a big learning experience, and I try to move on from each mistake. That doesn't mean I won't repeat it in the future, but beyond a certain point I think I would just be keeping myself in a negative space by dwelling on the past, which is not something I want to do.
I suppose if I could share any regrets, it would be inheriting some money, and then using it mostly on material things; in hindsight, there was a large chunk of it that I could have used on genuinely improving my life.
I suppose if I could share any regrets, it would be inheriting some money, and then using it mostly on material things; in hindsight, there was a large chunk of it that I could have used on genuinely improving my life.
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