What are your regrets

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1. Not doing something creative for a living like I'd always thought I would.
Now I'm a environmental specialist for an oil & gas company, never thought I'd see that. I wanted to be a writer or photographer and I loved my art history classes, I pretty sure this boils down to me not having the balls to take that leap of faith.

2. Not learning another language.
I used to live in Kazakhstan and was fluent in Russian. When I
got back to the states, I forgot it. And I wish I knew French &
Italian.

3. Dating that one asshat in college for a year.
Who ended up cheating on me, then getting together with my roommate. She ended up being a stripper, so...karma.

4. Not traveling.
I don't have kids. I have decent vacation time from my job. There's really no excuse.

5. Stopped reading for fun.
This used to be my biggest pastime, I don't know why/how it stopped.

6. Not taking care of myself.
Smoking, drinking, not eating right. I loathe the gym. This will definitely bite me in the ass.

7. Making excuses for shitty people.
Because I always think there's some good inside them and that I can help them. Not my problem.


Anyone else care to share? I feel today there's somethings that I'm missing that I know would make me happy, so if I list/think about them I'll be more apt to act on making them happen.

[Kit]

There isn't enough time in the day for me to list mine. lol

[fuckyourcouch]

[scotty]

Ya got all day?

[lust2hart]

Not studying abroad in college.

If I may be blunt with you, your regrets are all things you can change, with the exception of #3. There is no reason why you can't do something creative for a living, learn a new language, travel, read for fun, take care of yourself, or stop making excuses for others. You're acting like you're 97 and your life has passed you by - it hasn't! So start making some changes, lady!

[pseudoagain]

Everything happens for a reason.

Actually, I regret my parents, but I didn't really have a choice in the matter, so there you have it.

[candyapple]

1. I didn't call my grandma on my b-day like I said I would.
2. My last visit with her, my sister was there.
3. Circumcised D.
4. Didn't get rid of certain pieces of furniture he got hurt on.
5. Had his lips stitched when he split his lips on two different occasions.
6. Didn't have him watch TV when we both needed a break and tried taking him and out and he had a fall and split his lip.
6. Ever listening to my parents in any way.

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May 16, 2012 12:08:03 GMT -5 @bettyhomewrecker33 said:

Anyone else care to share? I feel today there's somethings that I'm missing that I know would make me happy, so if I list/think about them I'll be more apt to act on making them happen.

Yeah, that was my point of making the list, so that I can get off my bum and do something about it. It blew my mind how I'd swept this shit aside and that they're totally feasible if I make the effort.

[wrathofkuus]

I regret listening to my mother, ever, at all.

[mrsjuleshs]

Not finishing college

[Le Olive]

I regret going into debt for stupid grad school.

[Deleted]

Lately, I've been regretting quitting my other job to take the job that I quit becaue it was run by a bunch of moronic monkeys.

[papie]

No regrets. My choices made me who I am.

[melindafelinda]

May 16, 2012 12:16:12 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

- not having more fun when I was younger

- not starting anti-depressants sooner

- incurring $75K in student loans


Those are the big ones.

1 Month picture = INSANE CUTENESS

[peachykate]

May 16, 2012 12:13:55 GMT -5 @pseudoagain said:

Everything happens for a reason.

This is how I look at it. Are there things I wish I hadn't done? Sure. If I hadn't done them though I most likely wouldn't be where I am now, wouldn't have met DH and then wouldn't have had Jackson.

Now picking up the high school aged hitch hiker on the way to a party was a mistake.

[hubes]

For the most part, I have no long-term regrets.

I wish I would have waited to get married and had T, but I love him, he's here and that's that.

[scotty]

Yes, Tamb, she's the cutest!

[lightbulbsun]

May 16, 2012 12:08:03 GMT -5 @bettyhomewrecker33 said:

1. Not doing something creative for a living like I'd always thought I would.
Now I'm a environmental specialist for an oil & gas company, never thought I'd see that. I wanted to be a writer or photographer and I loved my art history classes, I pretty sure this boils down to me not having the balls to take that leap of faith. So take a leap of faith now. My mom was in her 40s when she went back to school for graphic design. The career didn't work out how she'd hoped, but she didn't regret trying.

2. Not learning another language.
I used to live in Kazakhstan and was fluent in Russian. When I
got back to the states, I forgot it. And I wish I knew French &
Italian. Rosetta Stone

4. Not traveling.
I don't have kids. I have decent vacation time from my job. There's really no excuse. Book a trip.

5. Stopped reading for fun.
This used to be my biggest pastime, I don't know why/how it stopped. Read a book.

6. Not taking care of myself.
Smoking, drinking, not eating right. I loathe the gym. This will definitely bite me in the ass. Make some changes. It's never too late to start going to the gym/eating healthy/quitting smoking.

7. Making excuses for shitty people.
Because I always think there's some good inside them and that I can help them. Not my problem. So stop doing it.

I think it's kind of weird that you're calling these things regrets when you have the power to change them. They don't have to be something you regret.

[cleo29]

How much time do you have? :beer:

[gullterre15]

1. Buying a house at the peak of the market with my mother's help, then meeting my future husband 4 months later
2. Getting pregnant before insisting that my husband quit smoking
3. Not fully realizing my husband's problems with addiction....he kept a lot from me
4. I go back and forth on this one bc I love being a teacher, but not pursuing a degree that would make me more $$$.

[mypunkinpie]

[lightbulbsun]

I don't have any regrets, because everything I've done has brought me to where I am now, and there's no point in thinking about what could have happened.

[Jam]

Regret not knowing the value of a dollar and incurring credit card debt as a teen.

Not studying abroad. That would've been amazing.

Making out with so many boys in high school and beyond.

Not going on anti depressants sooner. Probably would've spared me a lot growing up.

I'm happy with my life but ideally, I would've gotten married at 28 instead of at 25. Looking back I feel like I was still too young.

[Cayl]

The things that were hard when I was younger are what influenced my path in life and I'm thrilled with how things are now so I don't really have many regrets. The only one I have is that we bought a condo 2.5 years ago and I wish we would have at least looked at houses. We felt that a house was a huge commitment when neither of us had ever lived on our own (other then college) and figured that we have one kid in a couple of years and then either stop at one or have another a few years later so a 2 bedroom condo was fine for then. Yeah, things didn't go as planned....

[eightangryreindeer]

Right now, fucking everything.

[hubes]

May 16, 2012 12:34:13 GMT -5 eightangryreindeer said:

Right now, fucking everything.

((EARD)))

[BieberMyBalls]

I don't know if I "regret" anything. Everything I've done, gave me what I have. There are things that I would love to go back and redo, if it meant I would still have the things I love about my life now.

I would take more time for me, before I got married and had kids. And I will beat into any beebee bride's head, how important this is.

I would finish school. This is something I can still do, but it would have been so much easier had I just finished the first time around.

[KKD]

My biggest regret is how cruelly I treated my parents during my late teenage years. They are truly amazing parents and didn't deserve all the anguish I caused them. Then again, I know it helped build the great relationship we have today, but I still wish I could take it all back.

I also sometimes regret not caring more about college and the whole college decision process when I was in high school. I went to a good school, but I know I could have gone to a great school if I only had the self-motivation to apply. I credit my parents for getting me to apply to any schools at all, even though at the time I hated them and all they made me do. Then again (again), if I had gone to another school, my relationship with DH might never have happened.

My teenage stupidity also resulted in another college regret. I wish I had done some sort of business major rather than political science, which has done nothing for me considering I decided senior year that law school wasn't for me after all. My college has an excellent business school, too, and it would have served me much better without really changing where I am today.

Oh, and I wish I had been emotionally stronger in high school. I often think, "if I had only known then what I know now," but at the very least, I hope I'm able to pass some of that along to my daughters. Hopefully they'll be more receptive to their mother than I ever was.

[kdmac]

My debt and taking 7.5 years to get my degree. And not having a job that I love right now.

[onesweetworld]

I don't think I have any true regrets. Nothing that keep me up at night....