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What would you change in your past & why?

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  • #52
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    jaxxx wrote: »
    Being born.
    :(


  • #53
    triona1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 593 ✭✭✭triona1


    Actually 2019 i was a bit of a dickhead and 2020 made me realise how much people mean to me 🙂


  • #54
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    i wouldnt date that guy.....in fact i don't think i would date any guy i dated...that is not to say they were bad guys ..but they were not right for me.


  • #55
    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,687 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    Xtrail14 wrote: »
    Shouldn’t have had that Chinese last night, my ring is red raw.

    Must have had a big langer on him.


  • #56
    ShatterAlan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    I toyed with the idea of sticking a grand into bitcoin in 2010 but opted to put it into a Paypal account instead.


    The regret of that decision is the gift that keeps on giving.


  • #57
    Optimalprimerib
    Registered Users Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭Optimalprimerib


    I'd love if my thirties were my twenties as in my twenties I was very shy anxious and awkward still living at home and puking at the thoughts of a social gathering or meal with others.

    When I got my thirties I moved out and my confidence changed for the better. I had two friends in my twenties, I have many more now. But now I am forty and I feel that my twenties were wasted in what probably was undiagnosed depression which I never got looked at.


  • #58
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Wish I had went off and joined the army when I was a young fellit.


  • #59
    PhilOssophy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭PhilOssophy


    ShatterAlan wrote: »
    I toyed with the idea of sticking a grand into bitcoin in 2010 but opted to put it into a Paypal account instead.


    The regret of that decision is the gift that keeps on giving.

    Why though? For every Bitcoin, there's about a million similar ventures where the 1k would have gone south. The odds on it coming off were probably the odds of a 1000/1 shot winning a race in The Curragh at the weekend.


  • #60
    jmlad2020
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭jmlad2020


    PhilOssophy wrote: »
    Why though? For every Bitcoin, there's about a million similar ventures where the 1k would have gone south. The odds on it coming off were probably the odds of a 1000/1 shot winning a race in The Curragh at the weekend.

    If he is being truthful and actually was going to put
    1000 into Bitcoin at that time, he would now be worth $200 million dollars (and counting). Bitcoin is the most successful asset in history that is why he regrets it.


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  • #61
    cj maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,543 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Just about every decision I've ever made. But this wishful thinking gets a person nowhere unless it motivates them to do something, so I'm out !


  • #62
    Anesthetize
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,465 ✭✭✭Anesthetize


    I'm not going to say something along the lines of "I regret nothing". There's plenty of decisions I made in the past that I would definitely change.

    I would definitely go back to summer 2011 and avoid a falling-out I had with the friends I made from college. The peak of my social life was 2005-2011, roughly my college years and a couple of years after. But following that, it just wasn't the same.

    I genuinely believe that my life over the past 9 years would have been better had I not been a gob****e that summer.


  • #63
    scrips
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭scrips


    I have regret over the fact that I didn't stand up for myself enough when I was being bullied by my manager. It went on for years and it impacted on my mental health, my family and my career prospects. Eventually my manager got promoted and was no longer my manager, but I feel I will never get closure on that soul-destroying episode of my working life.

    I do have other twinges of regret over some big decisions in my life, but they tend to lessen with time, as life moves on and one focuses on new and different things.


  • #64
    Greyfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Regret that job i stayed in for 4 years when 4 months would of been too long. Todays Greyfox wouldnt of put up with the crap i did but sadly I wasnt as sure of myself back then


  • #65
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    You will only regret the things you didn't do.


  • #66
    scrips
    Registered Users Posts: 77 ✭✭scrips


    Got me thinking of something else in my past that I would change. An acquaintance in my workplace asked if I would be interested in going to see a particular film with her, as we had both read the book the film was based on. I didn't follow through on it and a few weeks later she took her own life. I later regretted I hadn't taken her up on her suggestion and got to know her better... I'll never know but it might have somehow helped her.


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  • #67
    Upforthematch
    Registered Users Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭Upforthematch


    scrips wrote: »
    Got me thinking of something else in my past that I would change. An acquaintance in my workplace asked if I would be interested in going to see a particular film with her, as we had both read the book the film was based on. I didn't follow through on it and a few weeks later she took her own life. I later regretted I hadn't taken her up on her suggestion and got to know her better... I'll never know but it might have somehow helped her.

    I'm sorry to hear about your acquaintance - but her mental health is not your responsibility. You can be sorry that what happened happened but to put even a portion of that blame or regret on yourself is just wrong.

    Take this guarantee from an internet stranger for what it's worth but whatever struggles or stresses were going on for her had *nothing* to do with you as a work acquaintance and whether you had gone to the cinema.


  • #68
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    You will only regret the things you didn't do.

    I regret going straight from 2nd year to 3rd year in UCG without taking my Erasmus year in France/ Belgium. I was 19 and scared of my own shadow thanks to coming from a very parochial and insular background. When I started travelling I loved it and made up for lost time ...I even did a Master's in the UK later on but I wonder what path my life would have taken had I done the Erasmus year.


  • #69
    chrissb8
    Registered Users Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭chrissb8


    Having less confidence in my 20's, but I guess I needed that time to build my confidence to a level I'm at now. But if I could just tell myself that it's ok to try and fail in anything you want to go for. Be it a girl, course or country you want to live in.

    Don't listen to others who have no idea or conception of what you want from life, and can't respect it even if they don't quite understand it. Family included. Just go for it and if it doesn't work out, no harm you still have your health and you're young. Tomorrow is another day to try again.

    Overall though I have no real regrets as my conception of who I wanted to be or who I was, took a long time to formulate. Meaning a lack of goals, or any objective to strive for, so I kinda floated. That's only changed recently in the last 2 or 3 years.


  • #70
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    I regret going straight from 2nd year to 3rd year in UCG without taking my Erasmus year in France/ Belgium. I was 19 and scared of my own shadow thanks to coming from a very parochial and insular background. When I started travelling I loved it and made up for lost time ...I even did a Master's in the UK later on but I wonder what path my life would have taken had I done the Erasmus year.

    I hear you.

    But in reality you missed out on hanging around with about 20-30 Irish and British Students for a year ( throw in a few token Swedes always pleasing on the eye too ) in a foreign university city like Lyon or Liegge ( a dire kip ) or Antwerp. You would not have had a lot of money and you would now only know those people via facebook or Instagram , if at all.

    If you ever have the urge to travel abroad don't faff around. Cynics will tell you that you are turning your back on reality and that it is an escape. That might be true but IMO it is a great adventure that should not be subdued.

    Sell your car and fly to Cairo or Jerusalem and travel to Capetown on the bus and the train, bypass Joburg, there is nothing to see there, But Nairobi, Khartoum,Kampala, Mombassa are all must sees. Cheap as chips too. Maybe over to the Ivory Coast where cocktails will set you back an alarming 50 c a pop. Skip Mauritania, I mean really do, but you get the picture.

    Don't faff around, this is not a dress rehearsal.


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