Biggest regrets in life?

McIrish_

One of my biggest regrets is not keeping in touch with my best friend from school. Really just drifted apart after we finished up with school.

Really can't even remember the last time we spoke

Kidchameleon

Buying during the boom

Frosty McSnowballs

Too fcuking many

Mr. Incognito

Biggest regret is not realising how good I had it when I finished school and thought minor things were worries.

After a dead parent, a child and a few serious long term relationships going tits up due to my behaviour. I regret those days when I thought I had real regrets.

I didn't.

You don't.

wretcheddomain

Posting a sarcastic comment on an AH thread and getting banned for a week.

WoollyRedHat

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Posting a sarcastic comment on an AH thread and getting banned for a week.

That must have been a terrible time.

Elmer Blooker

regrets? I've had a few but then again too few to mention.

Khannie

McIrish_ wrote: »

One of my biggest regrets is not keeping in touch with my best friend from school. Really just drifted apart after we finished up with school.

Really can't even remember the last time we spoke

Get up off yer arse and ring them.

McIrish_

Khannie wrote: »

Get up off yer arse and ring them.

I would if I didn't live the other side of the world

UnhappywithBOI

Sorry to say but I have no regrets.

Dicky Pride

The moment I first walked into a bookies. I'd be a wealthy man now if it wasn't for it. (I havent done it in a long time, but woke up and sought help too late.)

Karl Stein

Not getting more involved in football (soccer) when I was younger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILldFyJ8R34

Son0vagun

Not taking the €1000 for The Safe.

Cienciano

UnhappywithBOI wrote: »

Sorry to say but I have no regrets.

Anyone that says they have no regrets is either a liar, or in denial. There's always something

WoollyRedHat

McIrish_ wrote: »

I would if I didn't live the other side of the world

Why, are there no telephones there? You've defintely got internet anyway.

caustic 1

Not being educated.

megaten

Going to College. Or at least not taking the time after secondary school to make an informed decision. I was far too trusting of others when it came to advice and overestimated my own capacity to work.

Links234

Not going to see Versailles when they played in London a couple of years back. Absolutely kicking myself over that, because now they've broken up and I'll never get to see them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWMY5oXKK5M

Goodshape

Not buying some Bitcoin when I first heard about them 3 years ago.

dutcher

Broke up with a girlfriend two years ago who was too controlling. Regret it big time. I have now realized all women are like that.

HistoryMania

Taking up smoking from a young age. Paying for it now cnut to give up.

razorgil

not spending more time with my dad. we did a lot together, he was my hero. not the same talking to him at the grave, and substituting touching the grass on his grave for a handshake.

beks101

Loads and none. I've done sh1t tonnes of retarded things but realistically, if I undid them, I'd re-do them all again in the morning, and then some.
Because I am a human being.

Cienciano

dutcher wrote: »

Broke up with a girlfriend two years ago who was too controlling. Regret it big time. I have now realized all women are like that.

Not sure if that was supposed to be funny. But it was. And true too :pac:

sparrowcar

In watched Billy Connelly's world tour of Australia when it came out in 1996, I was 18. I remember thinking when I finished college i'd head off a see all those places.

I'm 36 in March, bought my first home last year and engaged to be married next year. Got a puppy a few months ago so my life had taken the "standard route". Now don't get me wrong, I'm very happy and marrying my best friend but part of me always thinks I should have gone when I could.

Still though..I have the rest of my life to get there and I believe happiness is only real when shared anyway so maybe we'll go together in the future.

SimonTemplar

My choice of college. The lecturers are awful (one can barely speak English) and the course is filled with meaningless subjects that add no value. Waste of time and money

Wattle

Had a 6 year relationship that broke up and in the aftermath there was this other girl. We dated a few times and she was lovely but my head was all over the place from the previous break-up so I just let it slide. Looking back I really regret it. I think she would have been a really nice girlfriend. Sometimes I tell myself that the timing was just wrong but fuk it.

Not dropping out of university when things got really bad. Ended up stubbornly struggling my way to an average degree that closed off more doors than it could open for me. For someone who was good at nothing else other than academia, having that taken away from me is something I still struggle to get over every single day. And doubt I ever will.

It might sound like something minor compared to others but having invested pretty much my entire self-worth into my exam results, coupled with being treated shittily by people who once pretended they cared about me, it leaves me feeling completely worthless and full of regret, thinking about what could have been if only I'd left and started again somewhere else....

shantolog

Plenty of things I think about and go "Oh I shouldn't have said / done that", but the things I really regret were not taking chances when I had the oppertunity to do or get something I wanted, but didn't take the chance because I was too scared and embarrassed to fail and have others see me fail.

Not taking chances in the past weighs alot more on my shoulders now than failure in the past ever would.

" Its better to regret something you did, rather than something you didn't do "

Jeremy Kyle:D

theblaqueguy

My biggest regret is

Picking up the crack pipe and taking a hit from it
I've been chasing the dragon ever since

The Backwards Man

I'm with Edith, as always. You only get one shot at life folks, time spent regretting is time wasted amending.

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

dd972

Being born :pac:

Debt to play poker before I even graduated.. No long lasting effects but a big waste. Actually, it taught me just how hard loans can be to pay back so it could be a good thing.

lufties

I regret not sorting out my self loathing earlier in life as i'm too hard on myself most of the time. otherwise i wish i didn't say certain things to my parents, they are both alive and we have a good relationship now, but even still.

Drinking a lot of alcohol is another regret.

At the end of the day we must remember though that we're human and not perfect.

suicide_circus

I regret that I didn't invent the piano key necktie

BlackEdelweiss

Not joining the foreign legion and becoming a sniper!

Sunglasses Ron

Not a whole lot, really! I tend to view my past mistakes as a learning curve that you endure between teenage and adulthood. Certainly a few "**** me I won't make that mistake again" but more putting it down to experience and carrying on. I look at some friends and people I went to school with and think "**** thank god I did not end up doing what you have done/ did" whether it be them stuck in a ****e job (irregardless of their pay being great or awful,), many years on an irrelevant college course, years in an argumentative under the thumb relationship, a cocaine habit, and numerous other things I either completely avoided or got right out of before there was too many wasted years. There are things and nights I wish I had not experienced but on a whole I have done it my way as Frank would say In 20 years I will be able to look back on my twenties and think that, for the vast majority, I didn't waste it doing ****e I didn't want to do.

ruthloss

and though it all, when there was doubt, I did it sideways.;)

Sunglasses Ron

ruthloss wrote: »

and though it all, when there was doubt, I did it sideways.;)

You ate it up and spit it out first Ruth.

ruthloss

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

You ate it up and spit it out first Ruth.

:P

mattjack

Holsten Pils or Niamh all them years ago.
I choose Holsten Pils .

Dave!

I wish I had dealt better with acne-induced self-esteem and confidence issues when I was in secondary school. It pretty much crippled me socially for my school years, and much of college.

Related to that: I wish I enjoyed the college experience a lot more than I did.

I don't think about these things much though. I'm more or less happy with my current lot, and still relatively young, so onwards and/or upwards

Carpet diem

Spent too many years getting thrashed and as a result neglecting work, relationships, friendships and much more.

Lesson learned and plenty time yet to get back on track.

sbsquarepants

Nothing too major.

I regret not travelling more when it was an option is probably the biggest one.

I spent a lot of money on cocaine, which although very enjoyable at the time, I now kinda wish I had paid off my mortgage, or invested wisely or something more sensible like that. I must be getting old.

I once turned an 8 grand lump sum into a small fortune by "investing" aka gambling, in shares when the stock market was going mad a few years back. I thought to myself, "you know what's better than a small fortune? A large fortune" and then proceeded to turn it back into roughly a grand!:mad:

Ridiculously hot chick I know wanted to hook up for a dirty weekend, I politely declined on the grounds that I had a girlfriend - turns out the girlfriend had no such qualms and was in fact banging half of Dublin at the time. That weekend would have kicked ass!

Those are the main ones I can think of right now.

For Forks Sake

theblaqueguy wrote: »

My biggest regret is

Picking up the crack pipe and taking a hit from it
I've been chasing the dragon ever since

Ah it's not too bad, you're still Mayor of Toronto.

McTigs

I 'm happy to say i don't really have any regrets.

Sure i've done stupid things and many things i'd do different if i had the chance again but i just look at them as learning experiences and move on.

The way I look at it is everything i've done, both stupid and smart has brought me to where i am now.... which is happily married with two great kids.

Since having kids I feel massively energised about things i neglected in the past like my health, education and career.

Don't wallow in regret, life is to short... learn from your mistakes and move on.

Leogirl

McIrish_ wrote: »

One of my biggest regrets is not keeping in touch with my best friend from school. Really just drifted apart after we finished up with school.

Really can't even remember the last time we spoke

I was in the same boat a few years ago - had lost touch with my best friend & regretted it so much but was too nervous to get in touch. Eventually a friend convinced me & we are now best buds again & I was with her through cancer, a second cancer scare & now we're at the other side & I am so happy to be with her while she enjoys her life again. We have a truly wonderful & close friendship.

Do it - life is too short!!

jaffusmax

My biggest regret is wasting time regretting things that I had no reasons to regret!

peanutman

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is right now. Life's to short for regrets, what's done is done.Make the rest of your life the best of your life. Peace

Penny Dreadful

I don't do regrets. I find they (much like worry) are unproductive and draining.
If I was to redo some parts of my life, I'd break up with my idiot ex boyfriend many years before I finally did it. He is such a waster, bottom feeder in society and I can't for the life of me see what I was ever doing with him.

Overall though I'm happy with my life and don't want to change anything in it.

simonsays1

I regret not experiencing more sex in my 20's.

And also never having a meaningful loving relationship with the opposite sex EVER.


I'm learning to accept it though! F@@k it!

I'm pretty happy with everything else.