68 People Reveal Shocking Regrets That Changed Their Lives Forever
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.
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