What is the biggest regret you have in life?

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viciouskillersquirrel said:
But then he would have had to hang out all day with a bunch of aerospace engineering students. He dodged a bullet there, believe you me.
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Same deal to me. The materials science and engineering program was in the same department as ME and AE at my university so my general courses were filled with those mouthbreathers.
 
Moving to Lawrence, KS to live with a girlfriend. She went nuts, I stopped her from killing herself, she kicked me out I and lived on the streets for 4 months until I was able to make it back to NC...

Fuck her.
 
Not getting a summer job the past three years (I'm 19). I'm doing my best to find one now, but I could potentially have my own car by now if I hadn't been such a lazy ass for so long. I don't really blame my parents for not pushing me sooner, but some perspective would definitely have helped me see the importance of doing so. Still, better late than never.
 
A lot. Mostly just the general realization that I trust people far more than they deserve. I've had loads of shit conned or stolen off me because of generally feeling like people can't be that bad and trying to help them out when they are in a rough patch. The worst thing about it though is that I still generally trust people even knowing what I do and being conned out of things, I still give people benefit of the doubt on most thinks.

I want to go back in time and become one of the hardest assed people ever known. A person that takes no shit from anyone and takes from everyone else. That's who I want to be, but I'm too nice to be that and I get walked over all the time because of it.
 
Going to college. I was never a particularly motivated student, and now I'm three years into it with only two years of credit. I don't - and don't plan to - live a particularly lavish lifestyle, yet now I'm going to drop out and have a mountain of debt already for no reason.
 
Exerting no effort whatsoever in my second year of university, not going back for a third, and waiting too long to go back to school. Now health problems have made it nigh impossible to do what I wanted.
 
Not going to College during my 1st enlistment in the Marine Corps! I'm still on my 1st enlistment, but it's over in about 5 months.
 
Phobophile said:
Same deal to me. The materials science and engineering program was in the same department as ME and AE at my university so my general courses were filled with those mouthbreathers.
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I don't know what it is about planes and rockets that attracts these guys, really. I remember there being a weird love triangle where a fat jerk (total douchebag - loud and... well, just loud) and a nerdy beanpole with no social skills both wanted this female aerospace engineering student they hung out with. She basically used both of them for their academic help, but put them both squarely in the friendzone.

I remember she used to flirt with me something wicked. Maybe I should have gotten to know her better.

alistairw said:
Not naming my cat Graham. Graham is such a good name for a cat.
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Why don't you just start calling him Graham now?
 
I regret spending almost all of my time playing video games instead of having fun hobbies that would benefit me later in life. Like playing the guitar and learning Japanese (which I'm doing right not, just wish I would have started much sooner). But on the other hand I don't regret it because it was so much goddamn fun, maybe I could have been more social about it during high school years though.
Cause right now I almost always play games with friends and it's a good way to make new friends, too.
 
Lots of college related things in here.

I wish that I had been more social during college, and that I had finished my degree. Then again, I wouldn't have been in a band, found my love for music, met a lot of the people I know now, and I wouldn't have EVER met my wife, and she's pretty much the most wonderful thing taht's ever happened to me.

Hm... you know what? I don't think I would do that part of my life over again.
 
I fucked up a bit in college but am back taking night classes and loving it, so no regrets there.

My regrets are mostly women related. oh well
 
Deciding to be socially inedpt when I was 14. At first it started as me trying to let go of my social life as I found it to be a waste and highschool to be a joke.

Now, 4 years later, while I like the person I am, its extremely lonely and now I don't talk to anyone really at all. While I'm okay with being this way the rest of my life, still would like to be ignorant to it all and have a "normal" outlook on life, if that makes sense.

I don't know, I'm tired and its hard enough to explain as it is.
 
I regret not being able to graduate with all of my friends from High School due to moving to a different city in my second semester of Senior year. :( I graduated with no friends. Lame.
 
ltse1 said:
Yoink!
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Yoink?

viciouskillersquirrel said:
Why don't you just start calling him Graham now?
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An ex from a long time ago named him. The fact that things with her fell apart is probably one of my realest regrets - I moved to Adelaide to be with her, and well, you know the rest. Am terrible in relationships/am a complete bastard.

I'm over it, but it would have been lovely and fairy tale-y and all. We'd known each other since first year of high school and kept in contact despite moves overseas, interstate and so on.
 
StormyTheRabbit said:
Deciding to be socially inedpt when I was 14. At first it started as me trying to let go of my social life as I found it to be a waste and highschool to be a joke.

Now, 4 years later, while I like the person I am, its extremely lonely and now I don't talk to anyone really at all. While I'm okay with being this way the rest of my life, still would like to be ignorant to it all and have a "normal" outlook on life, if that makes sense.

I don't know, I'm tired and its hard enough to explain as it is.
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There's still PLENTY of time to change and pick up your life. You're only 18 right?
 
Being too anti-social. I used to be a legendary partier with lots of friends and GFs. The drinking got bad and started to seriously damage my health and life, so I went to the complete opposite of the spectrum and withdrew for years to work on my health and get my head together. In the meantime all my old friends and girlfriends got married and there ain't shit to do anymore. Hell, maybe I'll go back to partying again if this doesn't improve in a few more years. I'd rather die of liver failure or high blood pressure than boredom.
 
Just not taking advantage of certain social opportunities. Im only 19 so im not stressing about it but I just wish I had gone out and partied during my high school days and networked alittle more. I kinda kept to myself quite alot though I did have a couple gf's and a solid group of friends for awhile.


obviously, no major regrets but the ones I do tend to have are usually on the social aspect of life.
 
gnarkill bill said:
Just not taking advantage of certain social opportunities. Im only 19 so im not stressing about it but I just wish I had gone out and partied during my high school days and networked alittle more. I kinda kept to myself quite alot though I did have a couple gf's and a solid group of friends for awhile.


obviously, no major regrets but the ones I do tend to have are usually on the social aspect of life.
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Same here. I got sucked up in a couple of crappy jobs that monopolized all my free time. While my friends were going to parties and going on road trips, I was making minimum wage.
 
no real big regrets, i play my cards pretty conservative. im going to la next month for a friends bday party and supposedly she's gonna have me doing x (never done it b4), some kush, and probably way too much tequila. hopefully ill have some regrets after i get back lol.
 
I am 15 and I have two regrets.

My first, is being a virgin. I could have easily gotten a fuck over the past two years.

My second is joining NeoGAF, because if I don't lose my virginity before 18, I will become apart of the adult virgin GAF.
 
Not having any self esteem (being overweight) until I was 19. It lost me a lot of girls and a few decent jobs as well.
 
Quite a few things, but I'll say probably changing my major so late into my college career (still got out in 4...). I should have done it after the first year.
 
`Moe Joe. said:
I am 15 and I have two regrets.

My first, is being a virgin. I could have easily gotten a fuck over the past two years.

My second is joining NeoGAF, because if I don't lose my virginity before 18, I will become apart of the adult virgin GAF.
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I really hope you're joking. If you're not, then you really ought to chill the fuck out. Jesus.
 
I guess looking back on things, my worst regret is triggering a chain of events that will eventually cause the destruction of the time space continuum itself.

I suppose looking at it positively, I could say that I was only another link along the inevitable path of destruction that started before there was even a time and space itself.

But really, by pushing a big red button marked "EVENTUAL DESTRUCTION OF TIME SPACE CONTINUUM THROUGH LONG CHAIN OF EVENTS - DO NOT PUSH", most of the blame has to lie firmly on my shoulders. I have to say, it wasn't particularly eventful though. I mean all that happened was some fly flew through the window soon after, which I swatted promptly.
 
Zaptruder said:
I guess looking back on things, my worst regret is triggering a chain of events that will eventually cause the destruction of the time space continuum itself.

I suppose looking at it positively, I could say that I was only another link along the inevitable path of destruction that started before there was even a time and space itself.

But really, by pushing a big red button marked "EVENTUAL DESTRUCTION OF TIME SPACE CONTINUUM THROUGH LONG CHAIN OF EVENTS - DO NOT PUSH", most of the blame has to lie firmly on my shoulders. I have to say, it wasn't particularly eventful though. I mean all that happened was some fly flew through the window soon after, which I swatted promptly.
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Started strong, but fizzled near the end.

I don't regret much. Incredibly strong grades throughout high school and college...I didn't get anything but A's for nine straight years. Moved out to Los Angeles to pursue acting and writing, not because I'll necessarily succeed, but so I don't have to look back when I'm forty and feel an overwhelming sense of regret.

I guess I messed up with some girls. Totally could have handled that girl Renata better :lol
 
I have many, but I'm in too negative a mindset to fix them.

Failing so SO much at uni, giving up in highschool.. who knows what else.

alistairw said:
I moved to Adelaide
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Sounds AWESOME to me, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Love it here.
 
Ask me in five years. Sometimes I regret something, but it manages to turn out to be a pretty good or lucky decision. Right now I am really unsure about my career path and if what I'm doing is the right thing, but I really can't assess it until a few years from now when I'm out of college and have some work experience. Hopefully at that time I won't have any major regrets.
 
Looking back, I think the single biggest regret of my life was the High School I went to. I got absolutely nothing out of it. Grades were shit, no relationships, I don't speak to any of my High School friends anymore.

Fuck. =\
 
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