What is your biggest regret in life?

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FlawlessCowboy said:
Yikes.

Do tell.
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before surgery my eyes were a standard correction of -3.25 with a little bit of astigmatism in both eyes. despite this i went with one of the best locations possible to have the surgery as i've always wanted it since being given glasses. $3000 later and my eyes are shit and my life ruined.

i now suffer from:
-starbursts
-halos
-glare
-ghosting
-loss of contrast

my eyes hurt constantly now (think bad sun burn) and have gotten some floaters as well.

the surgery is marketing bullshit. they advertise very low complication outcomes but in reality it's quite a bit higher. for example the 20/20 or better statistic they promise is scewed highly because if you end up like this EYECHART you can still read the 20/20 line and so they count you as a success even though your vision is horrid. you also have to factor in the nerve damage, dry eyes and loss of contrast you will end up with. how badly you suffer from these depends on luck but everyone does to some degree.

current technology just cant create as smooth of eye surface as nature can and as a result you end up with visual flaws. due to increasing complaints FDA is now re-evaluating the surgery.
 
Honestly, I'm not sure.

I'd like to say it was the way things ended with my last girlfriend, but I really have no regrets as it wasn't my fault and there was nothing I could have done differently to make the outcome any better. She just has issues and I can't solve them for her. So that's not really a regret...

I guess I'd say my biggest regret is not partying more in college. I studied and did my homework and now realize that my good GPA really meant Jack Shit after I got my first job. I should have enjoyed college more and partied instead.
 
big_z said:
before surgery my eyes were a standard correction of -3.25 with a little bit of astigmatism in both eyes. despite this i went with one of the best locations possible to have the surgery as i've always wanted it since being given glasses. $3000 later and my eyes are shit and my life ruined.

i now suffer from:
-starbursts
-halos
-glare
-ghosting
-loss of contrast

my eyes hurt constantly now (think bad sun burn) and have gotten some floaters as well.

the surgery is marketing bullshit. they advertise very low complication outcomes but in reality it's quite a bit higher. for example the 20/20 or better statistic they promise is scewed highly because if you end up like this EYECHART you can still read the 20/20 line and so they count you as a success even though your vision is horrid. you also have to factor in the nerve damage, dry eyes and loss of contrast you will end up with. how badly you suffer from these depends on luck but everyone does to some degree.

current technology just cant create as smooth of eye surface as nature can and as a result you end up with visual flaws. due to increasing complaints FDA is now re-evaluating the surgery.
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Sounds bad. I really hope your situation improves! And I hope you get to sue them or something, seriously.
 
big_z said:
before surgery my eyes were a standard correction of -3.25 with a little bit of astigmatism in both eyes. despite this i went with one of the best locations possible to have the surgery as i've always wanted it since being given glasses. $3000 later and my eyes are shit and my life ruined.

i now suffer from:
-starbursts
-halos
-glare
-ghosting
-loss of contrast

my eyes hurt constantly now (think bad sun burn) and have gotten some floaters as well.

the surgery is marketing bullshit. they advertise very low complication outcomes but in reality it's quite a bit higher. for example the 20/20 or better statistic they promise is scewed highly because if you end up like this EYECHART you can still read the 20/20 line and so they count you as a success even though your vision is horrid. you also have to factor in the nerve damage, dry eyes and loss of contrast you will end up with. how badly you suffer from these depends on luck but everyone does to some degree.

current technology just cant create as smooth of eye surface as nature can and as a result you end up with visual flaws. due to increasing complaints FDA is now re-evaluating the surgery.
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That's weird, this is the first time I've ever heard this. I know multiple people who've had it done and say it's the best thing they've ever done.
 
Anonymous Tipster said:
That's weird, this is the first time I've ever heard this. I know multiple people who've had it done and say it's the best thing they've ever done.
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I know three people who had it done. One says it was the best thing he ever did. The others said they got problems, one of the two had to go back.
 
Not going out with this girl in Jr. high who keep flirting with me who became the hottest girl in high school and now is a model................ehh she probably would of ditched me for some super hot guy later on but still, what could of been

edit: Also not dating this girl in one of my summer class that kept laughing at my awful jokes because I just forgot to ask her out or get her number before the class ended. :lol :lol

Oh yeah the 1.5 years of WOW but I love wow.
 
Ether_Snake said:
/googles Renee Zellweger

...

You fucked up worst.
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By "fucked up worse" I mean, RZ was actually following him around, waiting for him at a coffee shop and bringing him little gifts. I just got paralyzed by HG's beauty, whereas my brother ran away in fear from an aggressive RZ. It was when she was shooting Chicago. She was looking pretty good back then, too. If my brother had been more receptive to her advances, he could have been her date to the Oscars.

Ether_Snake said:
edit: BTW is this really all thanks to your sister wanting to be in Playboy? Or are you working in cinema or something?
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"Really"? You say that like it is something I claim. "Do you really have a 10 inch dick?" Not sure how you mean it, but it sounds funny.

"Wanting"? She has been in a few times, I think.

Language quirks aside, now to your questions... I do not own a time machine. Sister only started being a professional naked lady a couple years ago or so. My Graham situation was about ten years ago. Somehow, my relatively plain folks managed to have decent looking offspring. I'm also pretty good with words, but I don't think anyone here would believe that.

And, yes, I kinda/sorta work in "cinema."
 
Gilby said:
I got great grades in high school, but it has yet to benefit me in any way. I guess that's because I went into art though.
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Same here. Even though I ended up graduating with a 4.65 gpa it barely did anything to benefit me. I should of focused more on my art and my friendships, and less on my academic work.

Now my friends are all gone and I go to a university that I absolutely hate.
 
Dropping out of college after the first year. Waiting like 4 more to go back. Bothers me still. Think about it almost daily.
 
I was Republican all throughout high school. Although I guess I can't really blame myself for it when all my relatives are Republicans and I didn't get an openly liberal teacher until my senior year. And most of my friends were apolitical, so nobody ever argued with me.

Funny enough, it was the internet that changed me rather than college.
 
sphagnum said:
I was Republican all throughout high school. Although I guess I can't really blame myself for it when all my relatives are Republicans and I didn't get an openly liberal teacher until my senior year. And most of my friends were apolitical, so nobody ever argued with me.

Funny enough, it was the internet that changed me rather than college.
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funny I was more liberal in high school, neogaf has made more more conser. :lol :lol
 
Ether_Snake said:
Sounds bad. I really hope your situation improves! And I hope you get to sue them or something, seriously.
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wont improve it's been almost two years. if anything it's gotten worse...

im seeing my surgeon tomorrow if i can get a ride(cant drive with dialated eyes) to get his opinion on things. i will look into rgp(hard) contacts again as they can help improve some of the visual side effects but getting them fitted correctly is costly and the eye pain could be an issue. stem cell treatment in australia might also be an option providing the current surgery can fix this type of problem.


I know three people who had it done. One says it was the best thing he ever did. The others said they got problems, one of the two had to go back.
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i knew three people with glowing results before surgery. since then i've met 7 people overall and still only the initial three have had good results. some of the people with poor results were reluctant to say they suffered from flaws until i brought up my eyes being fucked. understandable considering it's embarrassing telling people you spent thousands to make you vision technically worse.
 
My one regret: Not putting more effort into high school and college. I'll be perfectly honest, I'm a freaking genius. I could have done so much better if I just put a tiny bit of effort into classes.
 
One of my friends has an uncle who was a role model to me growing up- he was old enough to have had much more life experience than me or my friends did, but young enough that he never felt like a parent or authority figure. He worked as a business consultant, so he had experience working and living all over the world. The year I graduated from HS (1997) he was going to Edinburgh, Scotland for a job (I grew up in small town Indiana) and offered to help hook up his nephew, me, and several of our other friends with a place to live, job connections, etc. if we wanted to come along. After thinking about the offer for a long time, I turned it down, because I already had plans to start college right away. Was worried about my future.

A few months ago I listened to one of the friends who went on that trip be interviewed by NPR. He founded a charity to help Iraqi refugees. Another one, through Facebook I find that he lives on a mission in Mexico. And then here I am, spending my workdays "enhancing shareholder value".
 
Some of you don't even have real problems to be depressed and regretful about :\

GIMME A BREAK!!!

Try to be distance from your only Grandma you ever known for years... and when you start to get close and discover how much beautiful you two get along and get really really attached to her.... she suddenly pass away.....................

2 months later and there's no moment goes by without hating myself for being distanced away from her all these years..... I wish I didn't spend more time playing video games or hanging out with stupid unworthy friends.... Instead I wish if I spend these days with her.

but what can i do now?

she's gone for good...... and my chance of feeling the warmth of relationship between grandson and grandmother is lost forever......................

I keep feeling that I was a terrible grandson to her..... and was unworthy of her love, I wish i can have only one year with her to make it all up and correct my mistakes.
 
I should have stopped drinking.

This is a repeating thing. I went to a wedding earlier today, left at like 3 o clock and I just woke up at almost midnight. I have no idea what happened over the last 8 hours, shit.
 
not being more social/ not socializing with girls more.

yes it's not a regret if I can still do it, but I still regret it for some reason. D:
 
I want to have regrets...many regrets. but it's probably best if things were left the same.

i suppose it couldn't hurt if I stuck to sports....baseball in particular. I wish i woulda had some interest in dancing as a kid too.
 
- Not socializing during high school. This period is the most defining moment of adolescence and i feel like i really screwed myself by not having much of a social life during that time.

If anyone here is still in high school, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, SOCIALIZE AND GET YOURSELF OUT THERE!

- Going to my first college (technical school). I fell for the college rep's stories of the school and the kind of environment it was, and enrolled there. I left after a semester. It was for some comp sci degree. I had an hour long commute 4 days a week and was in class all the way till 7 at night. My folks paid for it at the time, and i've since paid them back for it. It was such a waste of time, and i'm happy that i was able to transfer to a regular college soon after. I still haven't lived going to this school down, my folks and relatives still make jokes to this day. I made such a mistake only a month out of high school. This was easily the most embarrassing thing i've ever done.

I'm doing great now, but i always wonder how different i'd be without these regrets.
 
Snuggler said:
I should have stopped drinking.

This is a repeating thing. I went to a wedding earlier today, left at like 3 o clock and I just woke up at almost midnight. I have no idea what happened over the last 8 hours, shit.
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:lol :lol

All been there man, for me every weekend
 
As a teenager (before college at least) I pretty much let my mom run my life, like she'd always done. I spent so much time and energy doing things I didn't like with no sense of independence at all, and I think it helped to really fuck me up my personal development.



Also, there was this really hot blonde big-tittied girl in geology class my freshman year of highschool who, looking back, was clearly throwing herself at me for whatever reason, and I didn't do shit about it. Also, this cute sorta nerdy red-head chick I knew from highschool who I had orchestra with in college and again, looking back, she clearly had a crush on me. So.....

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ezekial45 said:
- Not socializing during high school. This period is the most defining moment of adolescence and i feel like i really screwed myself by not having much of a social life during that time.

If anyone here is still in high school, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, SOCIALIZE AND GET YOURSELF OUT THERE!
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It depends on your personality, really. If you're already naturally outgoing, it might be better for you to ignore temptation, get your head down and study hard. If you're naturally shy, do the opposite and get yourself out there.

Balance is key.
 
Shawsie64 said:
:lol :lol

All been there man, for me every weekend
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Lately for me, it's been like every other day. Damned firewater be fuckin' me up.
Today was the worst in a long time though, I'm still trying to figure out what happened today.
 
Hmm.

Declining an audition for The Big Green. I was an extra in Children of Corn IV, and was offered an opportunity for the role. It was out in the hills at some (rich) casting director's house.

I don't think it's so much a regret anymore as it is having a taste of a comfortable life and wanting it back - badly.
 
equil said:
My biggest regret is not going to college. Although im probally going to change that pretty soon.
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The good thing is, it's almost never too late. :D
 
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