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Mine would be going to college (note: I never finished). Biggest waste of time and money in my life.

doing meth

Don't have any.

Two;-self-harming.
- not working hard enough for my AS-levels, which essentially cost me a place at Oxford. Not, on reflection, a particularly wise decision on my part I feel.

Replying to this thread.

I try to avoid regretting decisions I make. If I make a bad choice and suffer because of it, it should be a learning experience, in theory. In practice I do regret things, but not for long enough that I don't make the same mistake again. And my major problems are not the results of actions or decisions I made, but more along the lines of my state of mind and general thinking (for instance, my extreme lack of social life can be explained by my severe paranoia).

Two;-self-harming.

I've been there. Hell, I almost died as a result once. Just remember that in the end, as much as you may feel otherwise, it's not worth it.

Replying to this thread.

ROFLMAO :D

Letting other people make my decisions for me.
And taking that co-op. If I had it to do all over, I never would have done that. Too much stuff happened that turned me off industry -- forever.

ROFLMAO :D

But you can't deny that I have good reason to regret! It got me off into that whole tangential discussion about.... whatever it was about.

*shakes head*

So, uh, how 'bout them theoretical physicists?

Not dropping out of high school sooner, and not going to college immediately after I got my GED.

Mine would be going to college (note: I never finished). Biggest waste of time and money in my life.

I can't list them all.

ROFLMAO

Now I am all dirty and I cannot find my gluteus maximus!

I regret nothing. Perhaps my decisions cost me opportunities and the consequences of my youthful antics left a few scars, but I am where I am now because of my experiences positive and negative. And I have to say, I'm in a pretty good place. :)

Okay, small regret. I regret not following up on acting after high school. *nod*

Not to have nuked the bastards while I still could...:mad:

Wasn't there a thread recently on something like this?
I don't really have regrets, i add things to my to-do list instead. Far more positive to think ahead, and currently i've got plenty of things on my to-do list.:)

i'd like to say going to university, but although i hated the studying, the social side did me a world of good and i am really better informed and more capable at critical thought now.

I've been there. Hell, I almost died as a result once. Just remember that in the end, as much as you may feel otherwise, it's not worth it.

I'll echo that.

I really can't think of anything big I wouldn't say I have messed up too hard

though I should of soo made a move on that successful girl with a car and amazing burritos what with winter, especially considering the best I get now is beans on toast *has no cheese/salad cream in house*

Not taking lessons when they were offered to me early in my saxophone playing. I thought that since I was already better than everyone else in the band so quickly it wasn't necessary. What I didn't realize at the time was I was being offered those lessons because I was better than everyone else in the band and the guy offering them was the best saxophone instructor in Northern California. As a result I plateaued pretty early and all those people who I turned my nose at actually worked and in short order got better than me and I had to scramble to catch up. Since I never established that foundation early on I think it was the chief contributer to me not being a very successful musician. That and being lazy. Lazy was probably most of it, but I still regret that decision.

I would say that I also regret dropping out of college the first time through, but that wasn't so much a decision as a situation and while the gap between that and when I went back sucked, it did inform who I became and opened the door for what I do now, which filled the gap left when I came to the conclusion that my saxophone wasn't going to be how I was going to earn my living.

I should have majored in something other than political science. Accounting, journalism, business...hell, even some foreign language would have been just fine.

The problem is, I treated college like a chance to learn rather than a chance to prepare myself for a career. Had I been more focused, I would be a lot better off. I wouldn't have spent two years at a dead-end job, and I wouldn't need additional certifications.

I suppose I could say I regret going to college where I did (I had a chance to go out of state to a nice private school, but I stayed close to home and ended up meeting my wife there, which is nice because we take care of each other, but less nice because we spend so much time fighting and we agree on almost nothing) but that could have turned out worse.

Mine would be going to college.
Mine's similar. I should have done a different course. Studying Computer Science alienates you too much from the things that really matter and locks you into a career path littered with dubious ethics.

Fortunately, it's also a lifestyle that results in high earnings, so hopefully a couple of years will have earned me enough cash to come back, read a second degree and do things right this time.

I try to look at it in these two ways:
1. Whatever it was I did, it was exactly what I wanted at one point in time, even if it messed me up.
2. I'm happy at where I'm at today, and if I changed mistakes, who knows where I'd be and what lessons I would have missed out on.


So, I try not to regret.

That being said, I've probably made major life mistakes to the point that me regreting nothing makes me psychotic.

Mine's similar.

I regret going, period.

Pretty simple for me: not going to university in 2005 when I was already 19, as my parents continued to make me believe I couldn't do it but this time didn't outright stand in my way - merely subtly influenced the decision. I continued to outright claim 'they stopped me' for over a year. It hurt. I couldn't stand the truth.

In retrospect, I think this is the reason why I am incredibly tetchy about people being even remotely pressured to act against their free will where there is no obvious social motive. And I would count host/audience pressure on risk/reward game shows - our version of Deal or No Deal here in the UK is full of it, all in favour of gambling - as an example of that. I'm notorious on a forum related to that show as a ferocious critic of host Noel Edmonds. There's the genesis.

I have regrets, but I've moved on from them. I would not be who I am today without those mistakes, and as I rather like myself today, I wouldn't want to give it up.

Mine's similar. I should have done a different course. Studying Computer Science alienates you too much from the things that really matter and locks you into a career path littered with dubious Really? How interesting. I guess it's a good thing I didn't go into that.

Not finishing my university degree.

Ever leaving Texas.:(

I should have majored in something other than political science. Accounting, journalism, business...hell, even some foreign language would have been just fine.

The problem is, I treated college like a chance to learn rather than a chance to prepare myself for a career. Had I been more focused, I would be a lot better off. I wouldn't have spent two years at a dead-end job, and I wouldn't need additional certifications.

I suppose I could say I regret going to college where I did (I had a chance to go out of state to a nice private school, but I stayed close to home and ended up meeting my wife there, which is nice because we take care of each other, but less nice because we spend so much time fighting and we agree on almost nothing) but that could have turned out worse.

Dear lord, I saw this exact same thing coming towards me..Glad I made the change..Well I am still a poli sci major and all, but I am not going to make a career of it. In fact, University is being a big waste of money and time for me, I guess. If i wasn't so close to being done, i'd just drop out already.


Anyways, biggest regret: Turning away from Christ, for another religion that is sick and twisted. I'll never forget the feeling of being away from something I love so much, and then coming back to it again.

You know, I could list a couple things - well, one thing in particular - but honestly, I think it did a lot of good in the end. I regret dating the guy I briefly dated while my SO and I were apart, but if I hadn't, I don't know if my SO and I would have reunited the way we did.

I do regret not appreciating my hometown while I was there, because I miss it terribly now that I'm not - but you live, and you learn.

I regret being a terribly lazy university student, but I'm still there, so I have a chance to fix it.

Otherwise... I'm okay with how I got here. I'm a pretty good person, and I do the best I can.

I would say that I also regret dropping out of college the first time through, but that wasn't so much a decision as a situation and while the gap between that and when I went back sucked, it did inform who I became and opened the door for what I do now...

That's pretty much what I was going to say.

I've said it often enough before...I like when others post for me. :p

That's pretty much what I was going to say.

I've said it often enough before...I like when others post for me. :p

I should have added that I regret being railroaded out of doing the double major. I still wanted my music degree even if I didn't think I would necessarily make my coin in night clubs and pit orchestras. I loved composing, too, but it's hard to go at it outside the major enviroment. Mostly because I suck out loud at the piano so I have to sort of 'mathematically' putting the piece together and plugging it in to see if it works. I don't have those programs anymore and can't afford them. Though I did find my old PMA (Personal Music Assistant, basically a portable sequencer/midi device), so maybe I should stop pining and actually poke away and compose a thing or two.

Anyways, biggest regret: Turning away from Christ, for another religion that is sick and twisted. I'll never forget the feeling of being away from something I love so much, and then coming back to it again.

I was raised Irish Catholic on my dad's side, and went to Church most of my childhood. Eventually, I decided that it wasn't for me, and spent years cycling through various pagan religions, as well as looking into Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism. Eventually, I realised that in the middle of the night, when I was talking out loud just to feel like someone was listening, it was always God I was talking to... the God of my childhood, the one that felt like home.

So in the end, I find my Christian again, though not Irish Catholic - and, to be honest, Christian only loosely covers my beliefs. However, I don't regret those years between at all.

I'm a fluid person - I grow, I evolve, and I change as I go through life. Why should something so essential to my being remain static while everything undergoes a process of growth and discovery? Catholicism stopped being right for me, so I found something that fit better; that, too, stopped satisfying my needs, and again I searched. Now here I am, years later, with a wealth of knowledge I would not otherwise have, and a religion that can't quite be defined, because it's a mix of everything I've picked up along the way and the little bits of home I carried with me the whole time.

Point is - religious exploration is a good thing. If anything, it made you realise how right your religion is for you, didn't it?

I don't have any regrets, though I probably should. I've done so many horrible things, I'm glad I'm an athiest or I'd be afraid of going to hell.

I killed a person in mexico, I'm a pedophile (who has never acted on it), the only job I can stand to do is write poetry and I can only write after I torture myself. I'm an alcoholic, addicted to cigarettes, have agoraphobia, schizophrenia, and bi polar.

My entire life has been a regret, my biggest regret is that I haven't killed myself yet.

Not offing Cheney.

I'm a pedophile (who has never acted on it)You regret not acting on it? Go to
12chan.org, unzip, and "act" all you want without the guilt of actually molesting children!
My entire life has been a regret, my biggest regret is that I haven't killed myself yet.There's no time like the present to work toward your goals in life, err, death.

You regret not acting on it? Go to
12chan.org, unzip, and "act" all you want without the guilt of actually molesting children!
There's no time like the present to work toward your goals in life, err, death.

I'm having troubles finding ways that aren't painful yet I have access to, and masturbation isn't acting on it. The molesting children part is the only thing which must be controlled.

You regret not acting on it? Go to
12chan.org, unzip, and "act" all you want without the guilt of actually molesting children!

Until the party van comes to pick you up.

You regret not acting on it? Go to
[deleted], and "act" all you want without the guilt of actually molesting children!
There's no time like the present to work toward your goals in life, err, death.

I'd delete that to be honest - for one I suspect Valencya is perfectly able to find these things for himself and second, I suspect it's against the rules.

It's like pointing to an illegal software download site.

Until the party van comes to pick you up.

*knock knock*

hmm, must be the pizza delivery

I'd delete that to be honest - for one I suspect Valencya is perfectly able to find these things for himself and second, I suspect it's against the rules.

It's like pointing to an illegal software download site.
I don't think there's anything illegal on there. If the mods wanna delete it they can go right ahead.

I don't think there's anything illegal on there. If the mods wanna delete it they can go right ahead.

Fair enough, I didn't check it - I assumed given the context of the discussion.

What am I? Some sort of rules police? Give me a dollar so I can go buy a life :)

The molesting children part is the only thing which must be controlled.You mean prevented please.

You mean prevented please.

Definition of control: To hold in restraint

I regret reading this thread.

I loved composing, too, but it's hard to go at it outside the major enviroment. Mostly because I suck out loud at the piano so I have to sort of 'mathematically' putting the piece together and plugging it in to see if it works.

Welcome to my world. (Economics and Politics student - in the UK, it's not a 'double major' but more of a 'split major' whereby your single degree is split may-as-well-be 50-50 between the two subjects - but also dabble in composition despite utterly sucking at piano due to cruddy coordination. Still, I have an ear for melody and a way with words, so I stick to that and then look for arrangers. ;))

Back to the topic, my regret of not going to university a year earlier may have been for the best. I may well not have been ready, but... too hard to say. Certainly glad I didn't go in 2004, I'd have wound up in investment banking. In the interim period, my politics became ever-more left-wing... oh.

(Hey, I could have wound up running an ethical trust fund or something...)

probably buying a boat instead of a piece of land, the one time in my life i had anything close to a clear chance at doing so.

the boat was the idea that i could live on it without having to pay property taxes. oh silly me. moorage fees, while a LOT less then apartment rents, still ate me up and long since departed is boat and living on it.

of course IF i could have sailed it to someplace i could have kept it tied up for free, and that being someplace i could have gotten to someplace to work and shop from, ...

but that DIDN'T happen. instead i had a couple of years of really cheep rent in a town and at a time, when there really wasn't any work for me. food stamps were generous in those days. but that didn't make it possible for me to keep it beyond what considerable savingings i had had to start with.

i'm not that social of a person, and maybe if i were it would have been a easier and more possible for me to have found work.

i don't know if things would have really worked out all that differently if i HAD gotten ahold of a piece of land as i had origeonally wished, but at least i would now have the experience of having done that, which instead i don't and don't in the rest of what remains of life to me, expect to do so.

well every road taken, every road not taken, past is past. i happy now to have this computer to play with. that at least is something i've always wanted, since long before there were any such things, other then mainfraims that only fortune 500 corporations and government agancies could afford. (which were all there were when i was born in 1948. and only a hand full of even them, on the entire planet. ha, and those amounted to less, in what they could do, then a game boy or a scientific pocket calculator, and took up gymnazium sized amounts of space. certainly none of them capable of what i'm doing today on this one.)

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I regret to not listening to my first intincts, in retrospect they usually turn out to be right.

Starting that land war in Asia.

Starting that land war in Asia.

Yes, it's much better if you can secure Australia & Africa or perhaps North America first.

Yes, it's much better if you can secure Australia & Africa or perhaps North America first.

Now you tell me.

Not taking care of my cat's kidney problem early enough.

Now you tell me.

You learn pretty quickly after your first attempt.

Australia's defensible, but too isolated IMO to use as a springboard, and Africa has too many points of attack to be worth it all by itself. If you can get North America real solid early on, then you're good to go because there's only three points of defense, you get a lot of armies, and you've got your pick of continent to hop to next.

Iceland, that's the key.

I wish I'd spent more time in the office.

Yes, it's much better if you can secure Australia & Africa or perhaps North America first.Australia's defensible, but too isolated IMO to use as a springboard, and Africa has too many points of attack to be worth it all by itself. If you can get North America real solid early on, then you're good to go because there's only three points of defense, you get a lot of armies, and you've got your pick of continent to hop to next.

Australia's defensible, but too isolated IMO to use as a springboard, and Africa has too many points of attack to be worth it all by itself. If you can get North America real solid early on, then you're good to go because there's only three points of defense, you get a lot of armies, and you've got your pick of continent to hop to next.

I always preferred to start in South America, but for many of the same reasons. Fairly easy to defend if you get the whole thing early on, easy to slide on up into North America, where the real power is, and so much more sensible than starting that land war in Asia. But I am not a Sicilian, so am a little shaky where death is concerned.

A few of my part relationships would most likely be my biggest regret(s) as it were. In that same vein, I regret using people the way I've done. Other than that I don't regret too much. I've always made sound decisions when it comes to school, work and the like. Its those relationships that seem to be tricky.