68 People Reveal Shocking Regrets That Changed Their Lives Forever
I miss her. And I still wish I could’ve loved her as perfectly as she loved me.
Throwaway because this is the biggest shame of my life.
When I was in high school, I was in a relationship with a guy that was a straight up sociopath. I was crazy co-dependent on him, because he was older and I was just excited that a guy was paying attention to me because I was young and insecure. He would emotionally abuse and physically r**e me on a regular basis, berate me in front of his friends, and sometimes share me with his friends.
We were at a house party one night, everyone was underage and everyone was drinking. I had gone to sleep in the spare bedroom in the basement. The basement also had a living room area and the walls were thin.
I heard my then-boyfriend and one of his friends and a girl that went to my highschool through the wall, and she was clearly too drunk and s****d to know what was going on. I listened to them r**e her, I listened to her crying, and I just laid there and was glad it wasn’t me. I didn’t try to stop it, I didn’t tell anyone, and I never offered her help or support later on.
She k**led herself later that year. I don’t know if I could have helped her if I intervened, but I think about it almost every day.
Edit: I kept dating him for almost a year afterwards.
Going to Bible College.
Initially I was going to go to University for Aerospace Engineering, but I wound up going to this tiny private bible college that charged 4x more, credits that wouldn’t transfer, and an administration that kicks people out for having s*x because it’s unholy.
That was a lovely waste of $50,000 and 4 years of my life.
Edit: Since this is getting more attention than I anticipated, I will take this opportunity to tell people to stay away from these types of religious colleges *regardless of your faith or beliefs.*
Leaving is a hugely traumatic and sudden process. It took me several years and being involuntarily committed for a week after multiple s*****e attempts to begin getting past it.
These places are dangerous in the social pressures they exert and the enormous amount of control they wield in robbing you of your entire support structure in family and friends in order to coerce you to stay.
I am being completely serious when I say barely survived the process. One of my closest friends didn’t.
Not going out and dating and doing sports while in my 20s.
I was reading books instead. It was still awesome. But now I am a bit pudgy and socially awkward and alone.
I am still not going out and still not doing sports. I do date. Now and then. Reading is still awesome. I just need to eat less chocolate.
Probably not getting a sleep study done back in jr high/high school.
Found out last fall at the age of 23 that I have narcolepsy – I’ll never get restful sleep in my life.
Really makes me reflect on my years in jr high when I remember being so freaking exhausted all the way until last year – after I paused my college education to focus on health.
TLDR: have narcolepsy. It’s equivalent to someone with healthy sleeping staying up for 48 hours straight and then starting their day.
Serving a mission for the Mormon church.
Was two years long, and my personality/social skills are pretty bad making it a terrible two years where I didn’t help whatsoever. I did it right after high school, so every girl I liked was married with kids by the time I got back (and I mean every girl), and a lot of my friends were now two years ahead of me in college. Its an awkward gap in my employment record that I’ve had to explain in job interviews (had a job in high school). I didn’t even stay in the Mormon church as of a couple years afterwords. So now I have these frustrating memories of trying to help that church grow. Even when I do have a story from the mission that I want to share, I always disguise the setting. I can hardly stand scrolling through my Facebook news feed, since half my friends are either missionaries I knew or Mormons from back in the day. I never did go to college because I felt too old. Oh and I suffer from anxiety and depression. It was the worst two years, and it won’t go away.
Not flying to see my grandfather on his deathbed.
It haunts me.
When I was told to call him they said that he couldn’t speak anymore and to just say what I wanted and that he could understand for now.
I pulled some words out of my a*s and told him that I loved him and that as long as live I will honor him and keep his memory alive. He made some sounds. I heard my grandmother tell him not to try and speak. He forced himself to speak to me using what energy he had to tell me he loved me and was proud of me. That he did that for me when he wasn’t supposed to made my heart break.
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