Regrets

Indiego

So how about a thread about stuff we regret doing/not doing/say/etc.


I'll start the ball rolling

I regret..
Cheating on my (now ex-)Boyfriend..

srfc19

I've had a few.

But then again, too few to mention.

Slow Show

Regrets are about as pointless as getting dressed up before having a shower, for the most part there's absolutely nothing to be done about them, and they just make people go a little crazy. Down with regrets, life is far too short.

I regret not going to bed a little sooner. Mhmmmm.

jumpguy

Bedauern? Man ist zu Jung fur Bedauern. Bedauern Sie nicht, und geniessen dein Leben.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

I seriously regret not working hard enough throughout most of school and college. My results arent nearly as good as they should be and this might come to haunt me soon enough.

Colm!

Regret not studying much for the JC. 6As is not enough.
Regret saying certain things to certain people, but hey, that's in the past.

jumpguy

Colm! wrote: »

Regret not studying much for the JC. 6As is not enough.

You're not serious, are you?

Slow Show

jumpguy wrote: »

You're not serious, are you?

It actually means something to some people, duuuude. It feels pretty suckish to know you didn't do the best you could. True story.

Screaminmidget

Slow Show wrote: »

Regrets are about as pointless as getting dressed up before having a shower, for the most part there's absolutely nothing to be done about them, and they just make people go a little crazy. Down with regrets, life is far too short.-

Life is depressing enough without dragging up bad memories...

RHunce

Not studying for my German orals tomorrow! The golf was too exciting

Grindylow

jumpguy wrote: »

Bedauern? Man ist zu Jung fur Bedauern. Bedauern Sie nicht, und geniessen dein Leben.

Hahaha all these are cracking me up!

I've no idea what they say but I presume they're genius contemplations of how the mind works..

I regret not learning German..

Ich bin Noel.. Ich bin sad now..

Pigwidgeon

I suppose I regret not working for my leaving cert and missing out on my dream course in Scotland, ending up doing arts and hating it, etc. etc.

BUT if I had of gone to Scotland me and my boyfriend more than likely wouldn't have lasted, I wouldn't have made some of the great friends I have now. At the end of the day if none of that had happened, I wouldn't be who I am now, and I think it's all made me stronger and taught me to appreciate doing what I really enjoy.

The one thing I don't regret, and never will and I can be sure of that is dropping out of college. Hands down one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Deedeecupcake

There are things that I know I should regret, but i don't because I wouldn't be the person I am now.

One thing I do regret is not working hard enough in school. I can do good with no effort. JC results 1A 10B's...If only I'd studied a little more

unknown13

The regrets I could have had have been turned on their head by good fortunes.

I don't regret not studying harder for my leaving cert because there was no more I could physically do. I was doing 4+ hours a day, which was enough. Messing up the LC has showed me that it is not the end of the World.

Lawliet

I only have a few minor regrets like not studying more or making an effort to be social etc.

That's not to say I haven't made some major fuck ups, I have, I just don't regret them because if they hadn't happened I wouldn't have gotten to know some great people and I'd probably be doing art in LIT or something random like that!

Jackobyte

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Kvu6Kgp88

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SarahBeep!

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

I seriously regret not working hard enough throughout most of school and college. My results arent nearly as good as they should be and this might come to haunt me soon enough.

Maaaaaaaaajor +1 on this.

Davidius

I regret things as I'm doing them. For instance, the other day I was regretting not being arsed to get up while simultaneously trying to go back to sleep.

Atavan-Halen

I regret the approach I've taken towards school since end of 5th/start of 6th year =/ Seriously biting me right back right now.

There's lots of things I regret not doing or saying or whatever, but life's too short for that. If it's in the past, it's in the past and there's no point dwelling on it. This is why I don't get or like history :P

Cows Go µ

I regret not doing an ounce of work last year and having to repeat the year. Then not going to my classes again this year making my exams so much harder than they should be. Plus, I said I was going to learn C# and I didn't and I'm actually scared of talking to the lecturer as he was so helpful and gave me all the notes and offered to look at any assignments or stuff I had coded. I feel like I let him down so badly. So I going to study my ass of for these exams and get started on coded. I'd say I'd have to be a coding genius to make up for what I didn't do but hopefully I'll have enough done to be able to do my project next year

Jamie Starr

Eh, I don't really regret too much about my life. I like who I am in general, my belly's full, I'm safe and I'm warm. Anything I can still change, I can change. Anything I can't, it's done. I like to move on with things.

Should've gone to the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland...

WhiskeyGoblin

Pretty much not working for the leaving cert. Oh and not kissing her >_>

ohthebaby

I regret not getting involved in college things over the last two years. I feel as if I've missed out on so much and so many friends I could have made and I know that it's all my own fault for being a loser. There were so many things I wanted to do but was too scared to go on my own or afraid people wouldn't like me so I did nothing both this year and last. So yeah, I regret all that big time.

illiop

I think regrets are good in away, if you don't regret anything you either have never made a mistake or you didn't learn anything from the ones you did make.

I regret taking my Trinity offer. I think I would have enjoy the DCU course a hell of a lot more, it probably would have been harder but it also would have been more useful.

Most of the other things I regret are either really trivial or really personal...

KnifeWRENCH

Not making more friends as a kid.
Getting fat as a kid and always being slightly overweight as a result.
Quitting Tae Kwon Do.
Never learning a musical instrument properly.
Being too much of a "goody two shoes" throughout my teenage years.
Not getting 600 points in the Leaving, considering the amount of work I put into it and the fact that getting good results in school was pretty much the only thing I was ever good at.
Turning into a terrible student at college.
Getting beaten up and robbed due to my own bad judgement one night.
Allowing myself to be used as a shoulder to cry on/emotional punchbag for people who never return the favour.

And most of all, allowing myself to become an incredibly negative, cynical and all-round unhappy person.


So yeah. I have a million and one things I regret in life. I guess I should add having so many regrets as a regret....

code187.2010

Regrets are pretty pointless,we all have them but for the most part the events involved can't be changed so best to learn from them and move forward.

Healium

Jackobyte wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Kvu6Kgp88

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Unless you regret not learning French...

I went out with a friend a few nights ago, who I haven't really seen since we finished the LC last summer. Our only regret is not standing up to one or two of the teachers, who were absolute nutcases.

However, I'm due to go back for an award sometime this month or next. Would it be really bitter to go up to those two teachers, and tell them what I really think of them? :pac:

ohthebaby

KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

Not making more friends as a kid.
Getting fat as a kid and always being slightly overweight as a result.
Quitting Tae Kwon Do.
Never learning a musical instrument properly.
Being too much of a "goody two shoes" throughout my teenage years.
Not getting 600 points in the Leaving, considering the amount of work I put into it and the fact that getting good results in school was pretty much the only thing I was ever good at.
Turning into a terrible student at college.
Getting beaten up and robbed due to my own bad judgement one night.
Allowing myself to be used as a shoulder to cry on/emotional punchbag for people who never return the favour.

And most of all, allowing myself to become an incredibly negative, cynical and all-round unhappy person.


So yeah. I have a million and one things I regret in life. I guess I should add having so many regrets as a regret....

Amen.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

KnifeWRENCH wrote: »

Not making more friends as a kid.
Getting fat as a kid and always being slightly overweight as a result.
Quitting Tae Kwon Do.
Never learning a musical instrument properly.
Being too much of a "goody two shoes" throughout my teenage years.
Not getting 600 points in the Leaving, considering the amount of work I put into it and the fact that getting good results in school was pretty much the only thing I was ever good at.
Turning into a terrible student at college.
Getting beaten up and robbed due to my own bad judgement one night.
Allowing myself to be used as a shoulder to cry on/emotional punchbag for people who never return the favour.

And most of all, allowing myself to become an incredibly negative, cynical and all-round unhappy person.


So yeah. I have a million and one things I regret in life. I guess I should add having so many regrets as a regret....

+1 on a lot of these.

Aoifey!

I regret leaving this essay til last minute

QueenOfLeon

The only one I can think of right now is doing TY. I like where the extra year has left me (not going to college at 17, I like my class, all that), but it was the worst school year I had and I got separated from a lot of really good friends who didn't do it. I didn't think it would matter at the time but them leaving school a year ahead of me and almost finishing college now has grown us all apart.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

QueenOfLeon wrote: »

The only one I can think of right now is doing TY. I like where the extra year has left me (not going to college at 17, I like my class, all that), but it was the worst school year I had and I got separated from a lot of really good friends who didn't do it. I didn't think it would matter at the time but them leaving school a year ahead of me and almost finishing college now has grown us all apart.

I've heard lots of people they were really glad they did TY, you're the first person I've heard say the opposite. I didn't have the option of doing it.

QueenOfLeon

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

I've heard lots of people they were really glad they did TY, you're the first person I've heard say the opposite. I didn't have the option of doing it.

In schools where it is properly run, the majority of people do it. We had a very very small year (only around 25) that was just made up of little cliques. The TY coordinator had been doing it for years and was just bored of everything so we went on 1 trip (to Westport :P) and put on a fairly shít play thing. Work experience was the only worthwhile thing doing. The rest of the time we had to go to normal classes where the teachers used that time to correct LC or JC stuff and leave us to talk among ourselves. Theres only so much talking you can do in a year :pac:

I tried to leave by the first week but was told I had to wait a month. After a month we still weren't allowed.

jumpguy

Meh, seriously, I regret nothing, all the bad crap and good crap I've done (or haven't done), it's led me to where I am today. I like who I've turned out to be, I like (most) of the people I've met and I've pretty good friends. So for better or worse, all the things I've done so far (or haven't done) have led me to where I am, and I know I'll probably have to put up with a lot of shít before I'm done, but I like who I am and I don't plan on changing (for the worse anyway :P)

Reminds me of this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZTpLvsYYHw

kev9100

I regret being getting a couple of fairly bad injuries that me made quit sport (one was my fault and the other one wasnt) and letting a couple of moments pass when I should have said/done something.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E08FifRfi6A

lilmissprincess

Letting myself be bullied and saying nothing, for the bones of twelve years. The stuff that went on still impacts on me now, after getting help and being diagnosed with depression.
Not telling certain people I loved them more, while I still had time.
Not pushing myself in the Leaving Cert - I totally COULD have gotten Psychology if I'd tried harder, but I don't regret doing my one year of Drama and ending up in Arts - its let me meet the people in my life that make me happy now.

WhiskeyGoblin

Tonight i regret not asking for her number. Now i wont see her for a long time and wont get a chance ... Seems petty regret, i do apoligise for complaining. (and spelling)

coffeelover

Being too much of a "goody two shoes" throughout my teenage years.

+1
I also regret not studying hard enough for my JC. The week before was not enough :rolleyes:
Being so shy while all my friends were going mad at discos etc.
Not going to Irish college with my friend.
Giving up dancing.

There are many more but I've learned to forget them.

Screaminmidget

I regret reading this thread.

bluejay14

Definately agree with the goody two shoes thing. I've always taken the safe option, I just haven't got the balls to go mad and do stuff that is "outside the box" or has the slightest bit of thrill to it. But I've still got 2 years of secondary to break out of it I suppose.

I think the above has definately been related to another regret of mine which someone else mentioned: my complete awkwardness and shyness in any kind of situation that is outside my very very small comfort zone. I think it's part of the reason why my best friend of the past 4 years or so isn't in my close circle of riends anymore. She got gradually more confident and I have a feeling that in her head she just got sick of waiting for me to catch up with her and get over my extreme shyness (I can barely even answer the front door if I don't know who's calling ). My total lack of cinfidence was part of the reason why I did TY this year and I can't really tell if it's helped my a lot or not. I suppose that it has in a small way but I've still got a way to go to get there.


Other than that, I can't think of much else that I regret. There's been small decisions here and there I suppose where I just wasn't brave enough to go with the risky option because I'm boring old me.

Anyway, what's done is done, everything happens for a reason, c'est la vie. etc, etc.

skyscraperblue

bluejaymraz wrote: »

My total lack of cinfidence was part of the reason why I did TY this year and I can't really tell if it's helped my a lot or not. I suppose that it has in a small way but I've still got a way to go to get there.

I felt the same way at the end of TY last year, not really thinking TY made a big difference to my confidence levels. It's only now in Fifth Year that I look at myself and think, wow, you are so much more confident and outgoing and social than you ever thought you could be. It's possible.

As for me, I'm half-and-half on regretting TY or not. I like that I'll be nearly 19 starting college, and I enjoyed the year, but I've grown apart from most of my best friends through doing it and I miss them so much.

ironictoaster

Saving me money for no particular reason rather than using it to enjoy myself.

Missing a load of gigs.

red_red_wine

I regret not persevering with my hobbies when I was smaller. I tried most things: piano, camogie, briginís, gymnastics, speech & drama...

Admittedly, I've never been the most athletic person in the world and although I did try my hardest with the camogie, I was always going to be one of the worst on the team. That being said, I wish I had tried to find a sport that suited me, there surely is something out there that I'd be moderately competent at.

I played piano up to Grade 6, but never put much work into it, other than the grade exams. I'd practice enough the week or two before those so as to get good marks, but I would only be able to play the simplest of pieces nowadays.

I know you're never too old to start a new hobby, blah blah blah, but it's certainly easier if you start it while you're young.

wnolan1992

My regrets change daily...
At times I really regret not doing TY, but then I remember how unbelievably miserable I was in 5th and 6th Year, and don't reckon I could have lasted another year. But then I think, was that misery caused by the splitting up of our year because half did TY, and if I'd gone and done TY would I have been happy? (Gotta love unanswerable questions)

I also really regret the time I've wasted, and continue to waste, worrying about crap that isn't worth worrying about, yet still seems to cloud my brain and swim around in a never ending loop.

And, when I'm not regretting all that crap, there's always the lovely memories of the idiotic things I've done when drunk, nights ruined, nights which could have been so much better if I hadn't made a complete and utter twat of myself in front of people I wish hadn't seen that side of me...

That's enough depressing ****e for now.

A19B1C12

Only regret I have is not playing rugby in my secondary school,although I was and still am seriously involved in and far better at Gaelic which made it hard and I was never one too fond of such intense physical contact.

But I reckon if I'd pushed through being afraid of the contact I would have been good enough and shown some of those ****s that were on the team that they weren't as good as they thought for getting on a school rugby team.

Honest to god they just walked around with massive heads like they owned the place and thought being on a school team was a massive achievment.

Give me a break..

Think I might join the rugby club everyone is in sometime if I get time and see how I get on!

Screaminmidget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP7pdAn3foE

musical.x

Noel2k9 wrote: »

Hahaha all these are cracking me up!

I've no idea what they say but I presume they're genius contemplations of how the mind works..

I regret not learning German..

Ich bin Noel.. Ich bin sad now..

hey you have a whole 2 words of german!!! you ever sort of formed a sentence. thats an achievement

Grindylow

musical.x wrote: »

hey you have a whole 2 words of german!!! you ever sort of formed a sentence. thats an achievement

Yes! :pac:

I can sing 99 lufht baloonsh too.. With made up German words

musical.x

Healium wrote: »

Unless you regret not learning French...

I went out with a friend a few nights ago, who I haven't really seen since we finished the LC last summer. Our only regret is not standing up to one or two of the teachers, who were absolute nutcases.

However, I'm due to go back for an award sometime this month or next. Would it be really bitter to go up to those two teachers, and tell them what I really think of them? :pac:

do it or you will regret not doing it

musical.x

Noel2k9 wrote: »

Yes! :pac:

I can sing 99 lufht baloonsh too.. With made up German words

:eek: are you sure your not german?