What do you regret most about your life?

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nole1fan

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should have choosen PreMed rather then EE long time ago. Nobody cares about Engineering. Money is in Radiology. should have concentrate on Learning how to print money..
 

Jikininki

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hm...i have a whole list.

i guess my biggest thing is choosing the wrong college, meeting the wrong people at said wrong college, and not doing as well in my studies as i should have due to those said wrong people.

If someone was ever going to do a biography on my life..i'd want them to skip the years from 2001-2006.
 

elektrolokomotive

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Thinking that it was possible for 2 people to be unconditionally in love with each other. Believing in the "for better or worse" marriage vow.
 

Tab

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Not getting good grades... Not being respectfull to my parents... Not taking chances...

So, yea...
 

CrackRabbit

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Being kind of a prick to my parents when I was younger, not realising they were trying to do the best for me. Not going to college when I should of. Buying things I really didnt have the money for.
Pretty simple list.
 

Saint Nick

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Regrets? I'm not sure there are things that I regret. When you say "regret", do you mean a choice you made or something you did, and you think about it today, and it makes you sad or angry? I can't really say that I've had any of those experiences.

A lot of people tried to get me to do things during high school that I just simply didn't want to do--namely sex and drinking alcohol. I did neither throughout high school. Last summer I drank a little bit, and I just wasn't in to it. I sometimes wonder if I should have done things different. Would I have had more friends? Would those friends be as good as the ones I have now? I don't know, and I really don't care. I made those choices because thats what I wanted to do and it's how I feel. But that is one of the biggest choices I made in my life.

Other than that, I don't think I regret many things. I sometimes wish I would have studied harder my first semester of college. I don't dwell on it. I don't think about it and wonder "what could have been".

I look at bad decisions as learning experiences. I think it is almost impossible for others to learn from someone else's mistake. They must learn on their own, first hand. Otherwise, they don't really learn anything.
 

Armitage

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If I could go back in time 11 years I'd kick my own ass from here to eternity for even considering marrying my now x wife. All the warning signs were there there - I was just an idiot.
 

JS80

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Originally posted by: Armitage
If I could go back in time 11 years I'd kick my own ass from here to eternity for even considering marrying my now x wife. All the warning signs were there there - I was just an idiot.

is this the paranoid nurse?
 

RichardE

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Dropping out of highschool.




Luckily, I went back anf finished, but wasted 3 years of my life.
 

yobarman

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None really. The only one is that i wished i developed my desire for success and entrepuenership before i actually did. Doesn't matter though, on the grand scheme of things im still young.
 

gigapet

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I let alot of hot poon get away from me before I "figured" things out. Its ok Im still plenty young and there is never going to be a shortage of poon.
 

Willoughbyva

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I have a lot of regrets in my life. I wish that things were so much different. I wish I could go back and change them, but I can't. I don't know what I should have done different? I think I should have treated people better. I wish there was something I could do about it now, but there just isn't anyway to change the past. I hope I have learned something from it all. I am sure as I grow older I will continue to learn from all of those mistakes that I made. Mistakes I made and mistakes that others made too. Maybe if I can learn from the past I will feel better about the future? I know thinking back on the past now I feel that it was such a waste. Still maybe people were helped or hopefully there are some silver linnings that I don't know about. But looking back on it streight on I don't see it.


Peace be to you.

Perry
 

KeithTalent

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Well, I think all of mine have been said already.

1. Playing to many games in high school (damn you Street Fighter 2), really screwed my senior year. Took me a while to get back on track, but everything is all good now.

2. Getting married too young (this should be #1 actually)

3. Caring what other people think about me. I know I shouldn't care, but I do.

Overall my life is good now, so I really should not complain, couldn't help myself though.
 

Armitage

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Originally posted by: JS80
Originally posted by: Armitage
If I could go back in time 11 years I'd kick my own ass from here to eternity for even considering marrying my now x wife. All the warning signs were there there - I was just an idiot.

is this the paranoid nurse?

Yep, that's the one.
 

GeekDrew

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#1 - Not spending more time on the farm with my grandparents before they passed away.
#2 - Not going to college right out of high school.