68 People Reveal Shocking Regrets That Changed Their Lives Forever
Turning down an academic scholarship to a nice four-year school to go stay closer to my controlling, uber-religious then-girlfriend. So instead I went to a smaller school to which I hadn’t even applied near her religious school, having no scholarship at all. Relationship ended about a year later.
Not getting to know the hot girl who allegedly had a crush on me
Being committed to a long distance relationship. It’s been four months since we broke up and I’ve made little to no progress in trying to find some sort of peace within myself.
Chasing my (now ex) boyfriend across the country instead of finishing my first year of college. Just up and left in the middle of a semester and never went back. I think about it every single day and I don’t think I’ll ever stop. 18 year old me was very naive and stupid.
Not being more money savvy in my 20’s. Am still paying off credit card debt in my 30’s. Don’t get me wrong, I had a great time when I was younger but I do regret it massively.
Not making a better effort to make and keep friends. Through a mix of depression and social anxiety, I ended up cutting some really great friends out of my life. For some reason I had convinced myself they didn’t like me anymore and would only talk and hang out with me because they felt sorry for me. So I stopped sending them messages and declined invites to hang out making up stupid excuses. Eventually they all stopped trying. Looking back at it I realize I was being ridiculous and letting the anxiety win. Yet this has caused me to now be afraid of making friends… Even though I desperately want to make friends.
Getting out of the military instead of sticking it out, I would be in a much better spot now if I had stayed in.
Having kids. I’m not cut out to be a mom, which I knew from the get go. Birth control failed and here I am. I do my absolute best by them every single day. This parenting stuff is tough. I love them fiercely, but I miss having freedom and money and space. I feel like an a*****e for saying this.
Basing decisions about my life on what other people think.
Always make sure you are making decisions based on what YOU want in life, it may be hard but it is so worth it. not only can it save you time in terms of years wasted doing something you don’t like, but also money and most importantly, your **own emotional health and well being.** Constantly worrying about what other people think of you is not only distracting for you’re career and personal development, but it can be discouraging and damaging.
Know what you want in life, and make decisions to help yourself get you there.
Have a great day!
Quitting a great job with huge advancements when I was 19 because a girl, the job took me out on the road for 2-3 weeks at a time and I didn’t want to leave her for that long at the beginning of our relationship. F**k that was dumb. It took me 8 years to make that much money again, and that girl dumped me after 5 months of dating.
Accepting the position I work in now. Biggest mistake I have ever made, I am more miserable than I have ever been in my entire life. In fact, f**k 2019 as a whole, this years can kiss my a*s, I am done.
In the mid 2000s I used to work a call centre job while finishing up uni. It was a startup fintech type job. People got promoted quickly and they paid above minimum wage. But I was naive and didn’t realize how backstabby some people could be to get ahead.
I carpooled with who I thought was a friend until he started secretly recording our conversations in the car to curry favor with my managers. Thinking I was safe I was honest about my feelings about certain things at work and sure enough he played the recordings to my bosses and soon after I noticed a change In how I was being treated.
They let me go with severance when I caught on to the fact that I was being asked to train my replacement.
This led to about 10 months of unemployment with employment insurance and me finding a much better paying job. It was a blow but I learned from it and I’m glad I’m not stuck in what is ultimately a dead end call centre job, no matter how they spin job titles.
Eating my feelings when depressed during most of college without also exercising.
When I was saving to go to college, I was a painter.
One day on the job this woman at a house said her son was looking for someone exactly like me. Non grad, hard worker, nice.
She told me he was the CEO of x company, for reference, his latest contract involved a complete overhaul of the London Olympic stadium ready for the 2012 Olympics. Needless to say he’s not a small fry.
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