not taking a gap year out of highschool. i hate college to be honest, though i know how important it is. i just wish i knew exactly where my passions lie so studying wouldn’t be so miserable
Nothing. I am sad about bad luck or wish for better outcomes, but I don’t regret my choices. If you make good choices you won’t have regrets. Do everything with intentionality and ask how it will affect your future.
Doing whatever I wanted to do (especially at the expense of others ), instead of doing what was right. I didn’t necessarily see the value in being a good person when I was younger.
Lying to everyone (including myself) for YEARS! 😭 Also, committing very heinous acts to some family. And caring too fucking much about EVERYTHING!!! I literally correct everyone on social media for using brain rot terms and poor grammar. I also regret my hobbies. Being a male teenager with “granny hobbies” really sucks. Most are supportive, but some just gender stereotype everything. I fucking crochet and knit. Get the hell over it
Everything else- I’ll live with the consequences and take the hit on the life lessons as I get that that’s what it’s all about and leads me to where I am today etc but the Pamela Anderson skinny eyebrows craze I fell foul of I could have done without
Too many to bore you all with but to keep it short and simple. GAMBLING! Casino gambling! Baccarat! Ive been gambling since 2006 with moderate success and control.
However, the past 4yrs it has gotten out of control. It has been exacerbated by the loss of my grandma, one of my sisters, and not seeing my son for years.
I have lost over 100k from my bank account, , cashed out numerous investments from stocks to crypto, and now? I am literally living paycheck to paycheck.
I have no safety blanket despite making good money! Because almost every week i burn between 25%- 100% of my pay on gambling.
My outcome looks bleek unless i can gain control of my emotions. If i have any unexpected expenses, i am cooked, like a major car repair!
Send me positivity… prayer…. whatever… i gotta change
Waiting so long to have my first kid. I wanted to wait until I felt “ready” but never felt that way. I could have hung out with my little best buddy for years longer if I had just taken the leap.
Also going to college. Waste of time and money in my case
That I would have taken more chances when I was young. I wish I hadn’t made so many sensible choices to be honest. Feels like my life is on some preordained track without any choice. I made all of the decisions that I thought were “correct” instead of what made me happy and now I see no way to live any kind of life I want without demolishing everything and starting over, which is hard to do when you have thousands of dollars of debt and no direction or any connections.
At least I have a healthy relationship that makes me happy. At this point I feel like my career and everything that led me to this point has been so soulless and bland that I can at least apply myself to succeed, even if I hate what I do, in order to support my partner and see her follow her dreams. Any win she gets I’m super excited for her so I can at least take solace in being a part of that.
That fitness obsession. Underweight, always abs checking. Always tracking food. Extremely tired. I looked like a fitness influencer but I was miserable af.
Now I just care for Steak and schnitzel.
(I gained about 10kg, I am at a normal weight, and eat as much as I wan while working out 1-2 times a week)
While rabbit hunting in Wyoming there were two Hawks hovering over the valley we were hunting in but after a couple of hours of having nothing to shoot at. I killed one of the two Hawks just for fun. I immediately felt great remorse and have ever since every time I think of it I cringe with guilt.
After my dad passed I was responsible for my little siblings a lot while my mom worked. When I was 14, 15, I would sometimes get high while watching them – I never did it in front of them to be clear, they had no contact with any drugs, and they didn’t know. Although they noticed the difference sometimes. But they were innocent kids and I was already their weird older brother, so they just thought I was acting a bit weirder. “He’s gone silly” is one way they would say it. It was a bit of a joke with them at the time. I’ll always feel guilty about that. I was responsible for their safety and they deserved better from me.
Staying home instead of going to college. Mom wasn’t doing good, and I let my aunt talk me into staying one more year. I lost my half scholarship for Ball State. I obviously loved my mother but since she died, it feels like all that time was just a waste of effort. I took care of her from when I was 18-29.
Thinking ‘I can just deal with this myself’. There’s a lot to said about toughening up but there are a lot of broken people that need help. Talking therapy or medication (to give a little spark). I’ve left it too late and I had a complete breakdown. Now to build back up.
Committed felony assault due to my anger and lost my football scholarships. I was a 4 star recruit in 2014 and had 21 D1 offers. Although I was found not guilty, I ended up walking on to the local D2 school so I could attend anger management and meet with my probation officer. I was able to get it expunged from my record.
I started 4 of 5 seasons in college and had got picked up for rookie minicamp in the NFL. But if I didn’t do that and went to the school I was intended to go to, who knows what my life would’ve been.
being so convinced I was going to self delete before the age of 21 that I’ve watched a lot of my life from the backseat. I never prepared for a future because I didn’t expect to see one, I didn’t try to go out and have fun because what was the point?
Now I’m 26 and trying to claw back a life for myself, I feel so fucking behind. I don’t go out and do things very often because I feel like I never learned how to do it when I was young and now I’m so anxious to try and do it now. It’s getting better but fuck, I still feel like I’ve wasted years of my life.
Worrying about stupid shit and not being happy with where I am at and dwelling on the past. Due to recent devastating events in my life I have realized that all the worries I have had for the past 10-15 years seem insignificant, like I have wasted a very large portion of my life. Felt like I was just existing and not enjoying, a robot on autopilot.
I made my share of mistakes in life. The mistakes are what made me who I am today. I have wonderful adult kids, grandkids and great grandkids. I have no regrets.
Now my dentist says half of them need crowns because there are so many old fillings. Basically paying the price for every time I skipped flossing and brush
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Drugs. 💔
Buying your soul
Choosing online school over on-campus.
smoking cigarettes
not taking a gap year out of highschool. i hate college to be honest, though i know how important it is. i just wish i knew exactly where my passions lie so studying wouldn’t be so miserable
Nothing. I am sad about bad luck or wish for better outcomes, but I don’t regret my choices. If you make good choices you won’t have regrets. Do everything with intentionality and ask how it will affect your future.
Caring so much about what others may think
Taking my x for granted and breaking her heart. The pain I caused has stuck with me for a very very long time
Meeting her
Not doing enough. Being complacent
Coasting for the first ten years of adulthood.
Smoking 🙁
Doing whatever I wanted to do (especially at the expense of others ), instead of doing what was right. I didn’t necessarily see the value in being a good person when I was younger.
I regret some of the things I put my parents through. I don’t want to get into specifically but just wish I did not do those things.
Nothing, i wish i knew some things earlier but it couldn’t be otherwise so i can’t regret it.
honestly nothing, I haven’t made any really big mistakes.
eating junk food
Having a kid with a woman from Hell. Worst mistake you can make in life fellas and there’s no running away from it either
Failing at suicide when I had the chance
EDIT: Calm down, kids. The chance has long since passed.
Not taking high school and college prep more seriously ( I’m only 19)
Not telling someone that I have feelings for them
I stopped working for 3 almost 4 years because of depression
I get that I need to heal, I really do. But the world moved on while I was sad.
Now, I’m unemployed and basically needs to start from zero again.
Nothing.at.all – Gen X
Getting married. I should’ve focused on school and myself, not a whole husband. I’m happily divorced now. 😌
I regret not doing what I want despite fear of failing.
Downloading Reddit!
Spending too much time working and not enough time with my family
Not cheating more
Spending too much time waiting for other people to change for the better
1.Not saving for retirement earlier.
2. Not finishing school earlier
3. Staying in a relationship because I was afraid of the what if’s.
Coke
Not going to therapy sooner
Pretty much everything since I was about 10
Not breaking into my industry sooner
Being a fiend to ciggies argh
Most of it
Ever drinking alcohol
Selling my business.
Getting married to the wrong person.
ever meeting my ex 👍
Watching a good BL series In a day
dating while i’m still a teenager
Whip-it’s. As an adult I feel dumber because of it
Marrying my wife
Stumbling into relationships without really thinking about the fit/long term.
Dropping out of college to get married.
Lying to everyone (including myself) for YEARS! 😭 Also, committing very heinous acts to some family. And caring too fucking much about EVERYTHING!!! I literally correct everyone on social media for using brain rot terms and poor grammar. I also regret my hobbies. Being a male teenager with “granny hobbies” really sucks. Most are supportive, but some just gender stereotype everything. I fucking crochet and knit. Get the hell over it
Cheating on a past boyfriend when i was younger. Just a really
asshole move. No one deserves that.
Staying quiet when I should’ve spoken up. That silence still echoes sometimes
Also smoking cigarettes for years. I’ve been smoke free since August of 2014. 🤩
Not studying enough back in high school, never going to university
Drinking Alcohol. 11 years sober tho 😊
Choosing the wrong school.
discovering discord.
Standing up for myself in abusive relationships. Romantic and friendly. I just don’t have a voice.
Participateing
Over plucking my eyebrows.
Everything else- I’ll live with the consequences and take the hit on the life lessons as I get that that’s what it’s all about and leads me to where I am today etc but the Pamela Anderson skinny eyebrows craze I fell foul of I could have done without
Too many to bore you all with but to keep it short and simple. GAMBLING! Casino gambling! Baccarat! Ive been gambling since 2006 with moderate success and control.
However, the past 4yrs it has gotten out of control. It has been exacerbated by the loss of my grandma, one of my sisters, and not seeing my son for years.
I have lost over 100k from my bank account, , cashed out numerous investments from stocks to crypto, and now? I am literally living paycheck to paycheck.
I have no safety blanket despite making good money! Because almost every week i burn between 25%- 100% of my pay on gambling.
My outcome looks bleek unless i can gain control of my emotions. If i have any unexpected expenses, i am cooked, like a major car repair!
Send me positivity… prayer…. whatever… i gotta change
Not a damn thing. Hoping to be just getting stsrted, too
Letting myself get overweight, it’s a lifelong battle that most lose.
Getting a PhD
Not unaliving myself. The economy is trash right now.
I should have dropped out of college sooner lmao
Birth
Going above and beyond for people who wouldn’t do the same for me.
Waiting so long to have my first kid. I wanted to wait until I felt “ready” but never felt that way. I could have hung out with my little best buddy for years longer if I had just taken the leap.
Also going to college. Waste of time and money in my case
My dad passed in February and i regret not going to see his body before his cremation
Nothing 🤍
Talking shit or gossiping. Never did me any good
That I would have taken more chances when I was young. I wish I hadn’t made so many sensible choices to be honest. Feels like my life is on some preordained track without any choice. I made all of the decisions that I thought were “correct” instead of what made me happy and now I see no way to live any kind of life I want without demolishing everything and starting over, which is hard to do when you have thousands of dollars of debt and no direction or any connections.
At least I have a healthy relationship that makes me happy. At this point I feel like my career and everything that led me to this point has been so soulless and bland that I can at least apply myself to succeed, even if I hate what I do, in order to support my partner and see her follow her dreams. Any win she gets I’m super excited for her so I can at least take solace in being a part of that.
Listening to my mother’s garbage advice
That fitness obsession. Underweight, always abs checking. Always tracking food. Extremely tired. I looked like a fitness influencer but I was miserable af.
Now I just care for Steak and schnitzel.
(I gained about 10kg, I am at a normal weight, and eat as much as I wan while working out 1-2 times a week)
While rabbit hunting in Wyoming there were two Hawks hovering over the valley we were hunting in but after a couple of hours of having nothing to shoot at. I killed one of the two Hawks just for fun. I immediately felt great remorse and have ever since every time I think of it I cringe with guilt.
staying with the guy who cheated on me,
not choosing my career properly at 18,
telling my savings to my dad
being born
Not doing sports or music in my 20s.
Accepting it.
Not learning how to make a move on someone I’m interested in.
Not learning how to get out of a relationship I’m no longer interested in.
Not getting mental health help sooner
After my dad passed I was responsible for my little siblings a lot while my mom worked. When I was 14, 15, I would sometimes get high while watching them – I never did it in front of them to be clear, they had no contact with any drugs, and they didn’t know. Although they noticed the difference sometimes. But they were innocent kids and I was already their weird older brother, so they just thought I was acting a bit weirder. “He’s gone silly” is one way they would say it. It was a bit of a joke with them at the time. I’ll always feel guilty about that. I was responsible for their safety and they deserved better from me.
Lately I’m regretting pretty much every decision I’ve ever made.
I regret not asking out that “little red-haired girl.”
not putting more effort in when I was younger to make my career a better one, I hate my job!
getting methylprednisolone damaged my brain and ears
Hating my body
Being here
Staying home instead of going to college. Mom wasn’t doing good, and I let my aunt talk me into staying one more year. I lost my half scholarship for Ball State. I obviously loved my mother but since she died, it feels like all that time was just a waste of effort. I took care of her from when I was 18-29.
Thinking ‘I can just deal with this myself’. There’s a lot to said about toughening up but there are a lot of broken people that need help. Talking therapy or medication (to give a little spark). I’ve left it too late and I had a complete breakdown. Now to build back up.
College when I went just to get my parents’ approval. They still weren’t proud of me. Assholes.
Not taking school/education more seriously
Psychedelics
Committed felony assault due to my anger and lost my football scholarships. I was a 4 star recruit in 2014 and had 21 D1 offers. Although I was found not guilty, I ended up walking on to the local D2 school so I could attend anger management and meet with my probation officer. I was able to get it expunged from my record.
I started 4 of 5 seasons in college and had got picked up for rookie minicamp in the NFL. But if I didn’t do that and went to the school I was intended to go to, who knows what my life would’ve been.
Putting off my dreams
Carring too much about people that don’t care about me.
Getting a full sleeve tattoo at age 19 from a shitty tattoo artist
My body, wishing it would be better.
Things too late and some things too early.
Going to college and spending money recklessly
being so convinced I was going to self delete before the age of 21 that I’ve watched a lot of my life from the backseat. I never prepared for a future because I didn’t expect to see one, I didn’t try to go out and have fun because what was the point?
Now I’m 26 and trying to claw back a life for myself, I feel so fucking behind. I don’t go out and do things very often because I feel like I never learned how to do it when I was young and now I’m so anxious to try and do it now. It’s getting better but fuck, I still feel like I’ve wasted years of my life.
gambling
Drugs and alcohol, what a waste of
Worrying about stupid shit and not being happy with where I am at and dwelling on the past. Due to recent devastating events in my life I have realized that all the worries I have had for the past 10-15 years seem insignificant, like I have wasted a very large portion of my life. Felt like I was just existing and not enjoying, a robot on autopilot.
Being a democrat
Drink. It’s the only thing I could control thatight have let me avoid cancer. I didn’t even drink much. I would have been considered a light drinker.
I made my share of mistakes in life. The mistakes are what made me who I am today. I have wonderful adult kids, grandkids and great grandkids. I have no regrets.
Existing
Not taking care of my teeth when I was younger.
Now my dentist says half of them need crowns because there are so many old fillings. Basically paying the price for every time I skipped flossing and brush
Regret not listening to momma sooner.
Allowing myself to destroy my life and my future and wreck friendships and alienate people due to my alcoholism and immaturity in my younger days.
Not spending my 20’s traveling the world working and exploring my way around