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Any regrets from life?

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    #62
    circadian
    Registered Users Posts: 6,938 ✭✭✭circadian


    I make the most of what I have and regret nothing. Regret is something that can drag you into a hole of what ifs and wondering if your life would be any better.


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    #63
    eamonnq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,010 ✭✭✭eamonnq


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=91210506

    Getting phone numbers from females on a night out and then not ringing them.


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    #64
    circadian
    Registered Users Posts: 6,938 ✭✭✭circadian


    eamonnq wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=91210506

    Getting phone numbers from females on a night out and then not ringing them.

    Nine months later and still the same regret? You should really have changed that by now.


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    #65
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    circadian wrote: »
    I make the most of what I have and regret nothing. Regret is something that can drag you into a hole of what ifs and wondering if your life would be any better.

    Im not saying you specifically, but I hate when people come out with phrases like "no regrets" or "regret nothing."
    Often it seems like it's just an excuse to be an asshole or not face up to something you did/didnt do that you shouldnt/should have.
    Again, im not referring to you specifically, just the phrase "regret nothing" set my mind off on a tangent.


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    #66
    eamonnq
    Registered Users Posts: 4,010 ✭✭✭eamonnq


    circadian wrote: »
    Nine months later and still the same regret? You should really have changed that by now.

    I can't find their numbers!! :D


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    #67
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Already mentioned this elsewhere... getting into programming. On the verge of killing myself from how fecking BORING it is!


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    #68
    bb1234567
    Registered Users Posts: 5,496 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    no ragrets


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    #69
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    Losing contact with my kids who are young adults now :(

    Long story...relationship meltdown, other side of the world, I went where the work was :(


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    #70
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    Getting into a relationship with someone who emotionally and psychologically abused me for 2 years. By the time it ended I was a shell of a woman and it took the guts of 18 months to find my feet again.

    Wish I'd F**ked off travelling instead.


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    #71
    Lollipops23
    Registered Users Posts: 5,420 ✭✭✭Lollipops23


    Mesrine65 wrote: »
    Losing contact with my kids who are young adults now :(

    It's never too late
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jze2xTcukc0


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    #72
    r93kaey5p2izun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭r93kaey5p2izun


    I have a lot of regrets. I seem to make a lot of bad decisions!

    In general they can all be summed up by saying I regret always trying to do the "right" or "proper" thing, being a good girl. It's got me nowhere and I really wish I'd never bothered.


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    #73
    Grays Sports Almanac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 113 ✭✭Grays Sports Almanac


    BeerWolf wrote: »
    Already mentioned this elsewhere... getting into programming. On the verge of killing myself from how fecking BORING it is!

    It's soooo boring!!!! I've been hopping around various areas of IT and now I'm done.

    I HATE it. Zero interest.

    Need to find something new...but what..!


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    #74
    LaVail
    Registered Users Posts: 1,619 ✭✭✭LaVail


    Blowing 250k cash in 2 years basically on drink and drugs has to be up there. Ah to be young again.


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    #75
    Baby Jane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 227 ✭✭Baby Jane


    Hell yeh - who hasn't? But the thing is not to dwell on them, view them as what felt right at the time (even if it wasn't :pac:), treat them as learning experiences, and all that jazz.
    Life is a series of lessons. The stuff you regret and all that, shapes you into the fabulous person you are today!

    To be honest, I don't believe people who say they have no regrets. How can a person not wish they'd done even one tiny thing differently? It's part of life. The regret in and of itself isn't the issue, it's your attitude towards it.


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    #76
    Littlekittylou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭Littlekittylou


    Not realizing I deserve love, respect , loyalty and care until now. Not realizing that it's not asking a lot and it's ok to trust and expect it will be given. Not realizing walking away is the right thing to do and that does not mean it won't be there the next time.


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    #77
    fergus1001
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭fergus1001


    Hollis Hurlbut wrote: »
    It's soooo boring!!!! I've been hopping around various areas of IT and now I'm done.

    I HATE it. Zero interest.

    Need to find something new...but what..!

    Forestry totally different :)


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    #78
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    Spending time with all of the wrong people. Pure and utter waste of energy.


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    #79
    fergus1001
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭fergus1001


    I regret .....

    The one I let get away
    I was young :/

    being such an introvert
    I'm nearly scared of people now sometimes I get pissed off and go walk around looking at other people having fun in groups and stuff and being intensely jealous or a deep sense of disconnection, it's more down to I can't let myself go wild for a night or just go have fun :(

    Dropping out of college because I chose the wrong coarse and because of my previous point was afraid to say it to my parents at the time so I lost out on 2 years and watched all my friends graduate and move on with there lives but I went and did a degree which I will finnish in may and I love what I do now :)

    What I don't regret

    My degree

    Having the balls not to be dragged down the road of cheating on my long term girlfriend the other day with a gorgeous girl who made advances on me but I shrugged it off and walked away (companionship means more to me than a night with a good looking girl)


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    #80
    rottie 11
    Registered Users Posts: 3,431 ✭✭✭rottie 11


    No regrets no regrets , no body crying over yesterday :P


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    #81
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Getting mixed up with various women and wasting some of my better years, years I'll never get back


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    #82
    shedweller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭shedweller


    These lines keep popping up in my head.
    "Daddy, what does regret mean?"
    "Well son, it's better to regret something you have done, than it is to regret something you haven't done."
    Truer words were never said.
    We all have regrets. But at least we tried!


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    #83
    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,727 ✭✭✭✭josip


    I wish I'd travelled less, started sprogging earlier.


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    #84
    Baby Jane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 227 ✭✭Baby Jane


    Some things I wouldn't see as having any point in viewing with regret though, e.g. having children later than average: could this have been avoided in the first place?

    If you didn't meet their mother/father until you met them, well then that's how it was gonna be anyway.

    Unless having children was deliberately put off until relatively late in life when it was possible to have done so earlier. I guess don't beat yourself up, but nothing wrong with briefly wishing you had done it differently either.


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    #85
    johnny osbourne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,017 ✭✭✭johnny osbourne


    Baby Jane wrote: »
    Some things I wouldn't see as having any point in viewing with regret though, e.g. having children later than average: could this have been avoided in the first place?

    If you didn't meet their mother/father until you met them, well then that's how it was gonna be anyway.

    Unless having children was deliberately put off until relatively late in life when it was possible to have done so earlier. I guess don't beat yourself up, but nothing wrong with briefly wishing you had done it differently either.

    are you getting broody?


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    #86
    BetterThanThou
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭BetterThanThou


    The only real regret I have is trying to hang on to friendships which the other person is obviously taking for granted and isn't making any effort with anymore. It has happened a few times now, usually I realize something has changed in the friendship, they stop making effort, I say it to them, they come up with some excuse and insist they still value the friendship despite the fact there's evidence they don't. I allow this to go on for a few months before giving up and moving on, a few weeks later they apologise and tell me I was right. I've allowed this to happen far too many times, causing me a great deal of stress. Another regret I have is having a fight with the very first "best friend" I ever had, it was over something stupid, and we ended up not talking for years. Recently I made up with him and I've realised he's probably the best friend I'll ever have, I regret not making the effort to make up with him sooner and losing the years of friendship we could've had.


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    #87
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    josip wrote: »
    I wish I'd travelled less, started sprogging earlier.

    Travelled less? Are you mad :confused:


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    #88
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    Not really. Nothing major anyway. Every mistake I've made has been a catalyst for something better. That sounds as if I'm lying but it's true.

    I suppose I wish I'd had the balls to initiate more stuff such as meeting up with people I'd lost touch with or calling people I was interested in becoming friends with - I always waited around for people to make contact with me and lost potential /old friends in the process. All down to being quite shy underneath it all.


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    #89
    [Deleted User]
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    so far, no threesomes as yet!! I live in hope!:cool:


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    #90
    6541
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭6541


    A few,

    Not quitting certain jobs when it obvious they had ran its course.
    Letting that one go a true gem of a Woman, I wish her happiness.
    Getting involved with a complete yoke (Verge on killing her if I ever meet her again Larry Murphy style)
    Moving out of New York and back to Ireland.
    Moving out of Perth and back to Ireland, Perth was just on the cusp of the boom and I was one of the first wave of Irish there !
    Dissing out a serious beating to a french student, he did not deserve it.

    I could go on.... :) But I am now relatively happy and a lot wiser now.


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    #91
    [Deleted User]
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    6541 wrote: »
    A few,

    Not quitting certain jobs when it obvious they had ran its course.
    Letting that one go a true gem of a Woman, I wish her happiness.
    Getting involved with a complete yoke (Verge on killing her if I ever meet her again Larry Murphy style)
    Moving out of New York and back to Ireland.
    Moving out of Perth and back to Ireland, Perth was just on the cusp of the boom and I was one of the first wave of Irish there !
    Dissing out a serious beating to a french student, he did not deserve it.

    I could go on.... :) But I am now relatively happy and a lot wiser now.

    Je suis Bully!!

    sorry couldn't resist!:)


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