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What are things you regret in your life? Things you wish you had done or hadn't done?

I might regret that I didn't kiss a girl on a station platform, but I'm not sure...

I really should have taken my writing more seriously. *nod*

I regret reading posts that have a *nod* in them.

Nothing as yet, but I aint ded yet so we'll see what life brings huh!

I regret reading posts that have a *nod* in them.

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Not doing any work, ever, in uni.

I'm still going to pass my degree, but nowhere near as well as I know I could have.

Not being serious about college the first time around.

That's about it, really...but that's a biggie.

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:p

Not doing any work, ever, in uni.

I'm still going to pass my degree, but nowhere near as well as I know I could have.

Not being serious about college the first time around.

That's about it, really...but that's a biggie.

*takes notes*

"Note to self: don't ... fuck up ... in college"

Not doing any work, ever, in uni.

I'm still going to pass my degree, but nowhere near as well as I know I could have.

This post is relevant to my regrets.

I regret not going to uni classes enough. I failed two of my first year subjects, first by a single point (I screwed up the practical) and the other was because I (foolishly) took a mathematics based subject as an elective.

A question: What can change the nature of a man?

Biscuit to the person who knows the reference.

I REGRET NOTHING! *holds sword in the air*

Not doing any work, ever, in uni.

I'm still going to pass my degree, but nowhere near as well as I know I could have.

I'll take that one as well. Unfortunately I almost got kicked out because of it but was saved thanks to health issues. Woooo

Creating a nation here in February 2003, slowly I lost my life....

That or that girl I never saw again:(

I dont regret uni classes (though of course i should have put more work into it), dont regret many of the life choices ive made.

What i do regret are the missed opportunities i passed up - be it out of fear, a lack of self-confidence, whatever.

Take a chance. Take lots of chances. Live.
I am trying very hard (though not succeeding that well) to seize the day - when i meet an amazing woman, i try to chat her up - when someone wants me to go do something fun, i go - when life hands me an opportunity, im learning to take it.

The regrets i have are not pursuing a couple of women, being too insecure to go after a great job offer, and just not taking the hands that reached out to help me up.

I regret dropping the social work major from my double psych/social work major. My university had a program where you could get your BA and Masters together within 5 years with that double major, and I dropped it. I dropped it based on some comments my parents made about how difficult social work is, etc. NOW I am in a social work job, but getting my masters in School Counseling...and I don't even want to do it. I want to be in social work.

So, I guess what I really regret is doing what my parents thought I should do.

I regret being weak-minded, letting what other people expect of me control my life for too long.

What are things you regret in your life? Things you wish you had done or hadn't done?

Too much, I`m afraid. I'm currently going through a hard time and question many things I used to do in the past. I made a lot of mistakes. Failed a lot of people and hurt people who deserved better. And probably failed myself a lot more often.

Don't really know if I can allow this to go on.


I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
you are someone else
I am still right here

what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt

I will let you down
I will make you hurt

if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

What are things you regret in your life? Things you wish you had done or hadn't done?

I missed some good chances of doing a lot of X-rated things, and also I've lost too much time playing games and debating politics instead of studying. Oh well, it's been fun anyway.

Not doing any work, ever, in uni.

I'm still going to pass my degree, but nowhere near as well as I know I could have.

I will regret that soon too. Second Semester first year starts Monday wooo!

Also I'm sure that in about 4-10 years I'll regret joining this place too.

Not having had more sex when I was younger.

Oh, I kinda regret that I did too much work and was too frugal and conscientious at university, rather than doing all the social stuff, saying "sod it all" and stopping worrying about it.

I regret not going to uni classes enough. I failed two of my first year subjects, first by a single point (I screwed up the practical) and the other was because I (foolishly) took a mathematics based subject as an elective.

A question: What can change the nature of a man?

Biscuit to the person who knows the reference.


Planescape: Torment!

I regret having done nothing regrettable yet in my life.

I will regret that soon too. Second Semester first year starts Monday wooo!

Also I'm sure that in about 4-10 years I'll regret joining this place too.

You are going for honours or doctorate? What in?

Planescape: Torment!

I regret having done nothing regrettable yet in my life.

*Hands biscuit to Remium*

Give it time, you'll do something regrettable.

You are going for honours or doctorate? What in?

I haven't decided yet. The 4-10 years was me being realistic about how long it will take to tear myself away from here. Also my degree as is is 5 years. So there's a minimum of four and a half to go!

Je ne regrette rien!

Erm other than those things I do, which are many and tedious to an onlooker. So yes.

What field is the degree in?

I regret not going to uni classes enough. I failed two of my first year subjects, first by a single point (I screwed up the practical) and the other was because I (foolishly) took a mathematics based subject as an elective.

A question: What can change the nature of a man?

Biscuit to the person who knows the reference.

PlanetScape?

Dang someone already got it.

What field is the degree in?

Me? I'm doing a B.E(Mech) with BSc.

Not enough text in the world, my friend, not enough text.

not working a little bit better for my previous exams and not trying harder/being better in my previous relationship.

Pretty much 90% of my life to date. Yes, I'm well aware of how lucky I am to have had such a good chance in life, and to be born intelligent and good looking, but it doesn't change the fact that, if I could be 13 again, I'd be a fuck lot happier right now.

That I chose History as my degree, that I didn't pursue a degree in writing even though I've been known to write some pretty amazing stuff for the school newspaper, and that I'm still anti-social and not really all that willing to talk to complete strangers.

Not marrying the man I could have married and marrying the man I did. I don't regret the divorce, though.

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My only regret is that I have...boneitis.

Pretty much 90% of my life to date. Yes, I'm well aware of how lucky I am to have had such a good chance in life, and to be born intelligent and good looking, but it doesn't change the fact that, if I could be 13 again, I'd be a fuck lot happier right now.
If going back 90% of your life made you 13, exactly how old are you now? :p

The only thing that I really regret is not telling a girl that I loved her more than anyone in the world. And now she's gone forever.

I significantly regret my choice of undergraduate major.

The only thing that I really regret is not telling a girl that I loved her more than anyone in the world. And now she's gone forever.

Is she dead?

Zombie thread! Get to the mall and stock up on shotgun shells!

I was going to be all elated that posters that had faded away came back until I looked at the posting dates...

What are things you regret in your life? Things you wish you had done or hadn't done?

I regret nothing i can think of, i've made all the best choices available to me. But i regret not buying some new shoes today.
I don't regret, i put it on my to-do list which is pretty large so plenty of things for me to do when bored.

Is she dead?

No. Moving out of state, going to get married. Maybe I was a touch melodramatic.

Zombie thread! Get to the mall and stock up on shotgun shells!

I was going to be all elated that posters that had faded away came back until I looked at the posting dates...

Shit, I didn't notice it was a zombie until after I posted. The guy right before me dug it up.

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I think that sums it up.

Well, maybe she'll get divorced and move back :)

Well, maybe. But I don't want to wish that on her either.

http://i28.tinypic.com/fk7hgi.png

I think that sums it up.

I love that game.

No. Moving out of state, going to get married. Maybe I was a touch melodramatic.

Well, maybe she'll get divorced and move back :)

I love that game.

Though I didn't like editing that picture.

EDIT: No timewarp? Aww...

The first regret that comes to mind is always the same one.
I was in the seventh grade at a dance at my church. I was asked to dance by a classmate of mine. I had a lot of good reasons (in the mind of a seventh-grader) to turn him down: I didn't know him that well, I wasn't comfortable with it, what have you. I should have said yes. I don't know what would have changed; maybe just those three minutes, maybe more.
Why do I regret this so much? Four years later he died in a car crash.

I regret not living more openly and taking more chances. I live safely, and there's a lot I haven't experienced because I've been so careful to never fail. I regret not being afraid to fail.

how does you refusing to dance with someone make you responsible for their death? are you god? No one can predict what will happen to other people, you make the choices that are the best to you at the time, hindsight is always perfect, don't worry.

EDIT: again with the timewarp! come on.

The first regret that comes to mind is always the same one.
I was in the seventh grade at a dance at my church. I was asked to dance by a classmate of mine. I had a lot of good reasons (in the mind of a seventh-grader) to turn him down: I didn't know him that well, I wasn't comfortable with it, what have you. I should have said yes. I don't know what would have changed; maybe just those three minutes, maybe more.
Why do I regret this so much? Four years later he died in a car crash.

I regret not living more openly and taking more chances. I live safely, and there's a lot I haven't experienced because I've been so careful to never fail. I regret not being afraid to fail.

No, but like my algebra teacher said, it was three minutes of my life. My petty little excuses are nothing.

I guess more than anything else, thinking about it reminds me that nothing is permanent. It's not worth arguing over three minutes when, just a few short years later, three minutes would be a blessing.

well put it on a to-do list, dance with another guy for three minutes, and you can do it in memory of the other guy if you want to. I doubt your algebra teacher is qualified to say whether your decision was good or not, it was yours (in fact you could argue it wasn't your choice, due to the reasons you gave it's likely most people don't dance with a stranger unless they're pretty durnk) again don't worry.

how does you refusing to dance with someone make you responsible for their death? are you god? No one can predict what will happen to other people, you make the choices that are the best to you at the time, hindsight is always perfect, don't worry.

EDIT: again with the timewarp! come on.

No, but like my algebra teacher said, it was three minutes of my life. My petty little excuses are nothing.

I guess more than anything else, thinking about it reminds me that nothing is permanent. It's not worth arguing over three minutes when, just a few short years later, three minutes would be a blessing.

That girl I spent all night talking to then forgetting to get her number. Man that sucked.

Oh well now I take every opportunity.

Being Middle Class, relatively intelligent, probably not too bad looking (at least, that's what she said) and still really not doing as well as I could in my academia.

Also, not doing as well as I could in my academia.

But honestly, apart from doing better in my academia, there was this girl. And we all know the rest of the story...(If you don't just watch some kind of chick flick, something like that. Yeah)

The hours I waste thinking about what I regret and dislike about my life. Unfortunately, they are rather numerous.

nothing really that comes to mind. nothing big or life changing anyway.


well, i kind of wish i'd bothered more about pulling as a teenager so i wouldn't still be like an awkward teenager now.

wtf, jut noticed the date on this thread. why was this dug up?

I regret most of my life at times.

I regret being born. Everything after that I am quite happy with.

I regret being born. Everything after that I am quite happy with.

Including our exchange in How close is...too close (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=548919)?
:fluffle:

I regret settling for a certain uni course, even though I wanted to do something different. I was very sick at the time and based my decision on what I thought my health could cope with...instead of fighting really really hard for what I wanted...

Including our exchange in How close is...too close (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=548919)?
:fluffle:

*laughs* I do not regret the actions of others. Now, will you please conduct your own --*clears throat*--exchanges in the privacy yonder room?

The two champions prepared to relieve themselves. Cugel's champion, glancing to the side, noticed the quality of Cugel's attention, and became instantly indignant. "What are you looking at? Landlord! Out here at once! Call the night-guards!"
Cugel tried to explain. "Sir, the situation is not as you think...!
Krasnark the landlord appeared, a bandage across his forehead. "Please, sirs, a moment of quiet! Master Chernitz, be good enough to compose yourself! What is the difficulty?"
"No difficulty!" sputtered Chernitz. "An outrage, rather! I came out here to relieve myself, whereupon this person ranged himself beside me and acted most offensively. I raised the alarm at once!"

Spending so much time on this forum.
*twitches as the walls close in*

What are things you regret in your life? Things you wish you had done or hadn't done?

I've only just turned 18 but I regret not having the state of mind I do now 4 years ago when it could have helped alot. Then again I suppose with the circumstances in my life at the time and my age there was little else I could have done as a kid. Still I regret fucking up as I have in school in the past year and being unfocused in school and athletics at times this year. Again I suppose any regret I have from before this summer is over something I had little to no control over.

Wasting my life in front of a computer screen playing games is one of those regrets. Kinda like right now (but I'll justify this procrastination of a term paper by stating it's a way for me to clear my mind :p ) That and shutting out other people and losing contact with my only friend 2-3 years ago.

I'm just thankful though, that I have the state of mind I do now, that I feel I've changed a lot in these 200+ days since returning from Turkey. There's this girl who I'm close friends with and who I feel has pretty much saved my life since coming into it by chance when she did. I love her and feel like she's the perfect person for me and I've never seen a more beautiful person in my life.. so I'm pretty much set on being with her and not allowing myself to mess things up.

That and I know I have a definite chance of wrestling 189 in the team state championship match, the key being how badly I want it to put in the work to achieve that position and win.

I dunno it's weird and excuse me if I'm making this too detailed or long but hell it's NSG and I might as well use it as a chance to get some thoughts out from my head so I can concentrate better.
--It's like my life is focused around 3 things at this point. Her, wrestling, and getting into college. I have a lot of regrets in the last chapter of my life which I'm set on closing to book on. I dunno, I guess if you've fucked up and lived a sucky life long enough...once that light shines on your life you tend to see things differently and somehow make up your mind to reach for a life worth living. In the end win or lose its all up to you.. well me in this case.

/rant :p

I regret being born with a penis. Sometimes when I look at myself in the mirror nude, I feel sick when I see my penis. Thats what scissors are for I guess.

I regret being born with a penis. Sometimes when I look at myself in the mirror nude, I feel sick when I see my penis. Thats what scissors are for I guess.

I'm sure others have had the same reaction towards your nude self.
*hands you a pair of hedge clippers*

What are things you regret in your life? Things you wish you had done or hadn't done?

I wish I had beaten the ever-loving shit out of a couple people in elementary school -- would have saved a lot of aggravation there and in junior high. (By high school I'd had enough and proved it by taking down a bully in gym class.)

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I think that sums it up.

Kick ass game, btw.