Discussion Biggest Regrets in Life?

[Nights]

When i was a kid i was arrogant and couldn't feel others pain that i even laughed at people who cry because their face was funny (not in a sadistic way but their face was weird to me) i was greedy, couldn't care about others, used to insult kids and sometimes bully younger kids, that's my biggest regret in life

 

[Duochrome-Seahorse]

1. dating my first ex BF
2. not getting a doctor for my ankles (sometimes its painful to walk cuz they sprain easily)

other than that, I don't think I have much regrets, I learned a lot from things i thought were regrets, but they actually helped me in the long run.

 

[Alyra]

Not getting mental help when I was younger, and enduring abusive people so I didn't have to be alone.

 

[Source Energy]

Not having a bubbly, outgoing personality and confidence. I was blessed with a nice figure and a pretty face but the quietness and lack of self-confidence held me back from my goals.

I have no regrets about the paths I chose. I mourn something I wish I had had

 

[mediocre]

not taking care of my psychical/dental health.. there really is no going back.. especially for your teeth. I'm young still but I feel older because my body has declined so much:/

 

[Crystal]

not doing more productive things or studying harder in my teens or 20s and applying for jobs when I was younger now I'm just an embarrassment/outcast to society, so left behind compared to my generation of 90s kids who have married or settling down by now

 

[Kasumi]

I suppose that I didn't realise sooner that my condition isn't normal.. I was always told to be glad about how good I have it cause other people have it way worse, so I always assumed that everyone was naturally feeling bad too and they just didn't show it same as I did.

 

[Nights]

As a child, until the age of 5 or 6, i have some memories in which my mother tried to convince of islam and it was nonsense but i said ok because everyone was muslims, i should have listened to logic more and figured out islam is nothing but a lie, and been more stronger and patient

 

[Zulu]

1) Being peer-pressured to go to college to pursue something I had no interest in. Student debt is killer, and I hate what I do. Probably my number one regret.
2) Giving up my life for a former partner and moving in with their folks, only to lose everything and face all kinds of abuse, including near homelessness. Second biggest regret, and one I still suffer trauma from to this day.
3) Not having a real family to fall back on, or having any real support/safety net besides my job. Save for three or four individuals I'm attached to (nearly all of whom are long-distance), I feel emotionally stunted. I don't really know what it's like to have a family, and I've felt so alone and isolated. Missing out on a lot of key growing up milestones that most folks get to experience. Plus also throw in the trans card. I feel like a ghost not really living life while I watch everyone else get to live their lives to the fullest, especially with starting families of their own. It hurts like hell knowing I'll never get to have that.
4) Not coming out sooner for transitioning. Though really, just being born in the wrong body period. Holly hell, if I could have just been born in the right body, my life would have been completely different. Something I'll never get to truly experience or know what that would have been like. Depressing as all hell.
5) Not pulling the trigger on my third (out of six) game of Russian roulette. If I would have pulled it then, I would have been freed five years ago. Yet for some unexplainable reason, I didn't, and here I still am. I just want to be free. All I want is freedom. I just want to be free. Please.

 

[outatime_85]

I have too many regrets.

I have more regrets than time on this rock.

1) Not forcing the adults to get me properly diagnosed when I was younger.

2) Enduring abuse at the hands of numerous bullies (not fighting back) Note: I did not know how, and I had no one to teach me.

3) Being born into a family that one can't ask for any help from and whose guiding rule is rugged individualism (fix it on your own, and if you can't, oh well) Note: Asking for help was and is seen as weak in my family circle.

A word of advice: "Do for yourself." Mentality does not always create well-functioning adults.

4) Not having ended my game (time on the rock) when I was younger, everyone in my circle would have been better off.

 

[theslasher]

getting into credit card debt, spending money to impress strangers, posting my personal life on social media, going to college, spending so much time caring what other people think, wasting money on things rather than experiences, not questioning the validity of religion sooner in life, not practicing how to become more articulate, giving up on my business idea after it failed the first time, switching business ideas all the time just because the first one didn't work immediately, not kissing that girl because other guys didn't like her or because those guys wanted me to just hangout with them but then those same guys would flirt with girls i talk to, actually trusting any human being on this planet, what else? That about sums it up
edit: no actually, watching so much porn throughout high school took a toll on me psychologically, also I wish I'd have said yes to that girl who liked me in high school, oh well. Gotta learn from the past, but rn i'm so fucking broke there's no way i could take a girl out. That's why i'm putting all my focus into coding cutting out fake mfs so I can escape this poverty.