Regretfull Decisions

[Hollow 1977]

Hey everyone. Have you ever done something and regretted it later even though it was minor? For me I have been known to occasionally block someone who is trying to cut into my lane. Really though the easiest way is to let them in. Thinking about it now why block them when it could cause an accident.

 

[HexMozart88]

Boy, I regret things from six years ago. I regret things even from when I was really little. I honestly regret everything now, and I feel really bad about it, but a random dumb thing from when I was like, ten would pop into my mind and I'd begin to seriously hate myself for that small thing.

 

[Shaz]

Everyone regrets things - sometimes they're big, important things and sometimes they're teeny little things. I spend long nights thinking about things I've said and done in the past and regretting them. Best thing is to move on, learn your lesson, and try to remember it next time. When you act/speak differently, you are a better person for it.

 

[Caitlin]

(=-_-=) Yes, and the first thing you have to do is to forgive yourself, learn from it and move on. Forget it, while keeping the lesson you learned. I beat myself up quite a bit about little stupid things I said or did. (=o_o=) Like, for example, I lost at bingo and got a soda pop for helping clean up. I was so pissed off, that I shook it up and opened it up spilling it on the ground. Now, that I think about it, it wasn't so good to do and honestly, that soda pop sounds pretty good right now. \(=>.<=)/ I regretted doing it almost immediately (when I was eating dinner). The lesson I learned from that was not to act when I was upset about something. Lesson learned.

 

[Rhaeami]

When I was younger, I had a relationship that ended poorly because I told some big lies. I was eventually forgiven, but now I take it as a personal rule to never lie, period. A bit overly dramatic, but there it is.

 

[Kyuukon]

Yeah, a lot... but if you don't regret things, you are not learning!

 

[Fernyfer775]

I regret not doing enough research before dropping $60 to buy Elder Scrolls online for the PS4, and then another $60 for a year subscription of Playstation Plus (which is required to play most ps4 games online), just to find out that the boyfriend and I can't play cross platform (PC and PS4), and playstation network has a ZERO REFUND POLICY AFTER DOWNLOADING THE GAME! #Raaaaaaaaaage

 

[mogwai]

Posting too much.

 

[Caitlin]

Regretful decision: My first laptop before it died for good, I didn't back anything up and have waited for years to turn it into a external hard drive. I could have put things in a zip file, but I have regretted not doing that. This time, however, I backed up my game and my files that were important to me. Yes, I lost things, but I learned my lesson. When my laptop's fan was causing my laptop not to respond as it was always going, back things up. I didn't lose anything, this time, so I have a regret story that's followed up by a "OH MY GOD! Thank you!" story.

The good thing about having stories like that is that you do and can learn to make the next time a better experience for you. (=o_o=) And what the guy who doesn't penicillin had remembered to throw that sandwich away before he left? What if the guy who was making Ivory soap hadn't put too much air into the machine? I like to think that out of a bad experince some good can come out of it. You missing the bus could lead you to meeting your future girlfriend or spouse. Maybe regretful decisions should be called missed opportunities instead.

 

[Pine Towers]

I can't remember anything that I regret for doing. But boy, the things I regret not doing...

 

[Astel]

I'm pretty much a loner, and tend to push away people who try to get close... sometimes i wonder how different would be my life if i wasn't like that. Only sometimes.

 

[Alexander Amnell]

I'm pretty much a loner, and tend to push away people who try to get close... sometimes i wonder how different would be my life if i wasn't like that. Only sometimes.

Being a socialite is always overrated if you aren't one by nature. If you really want to know how it feels, enter a committed relationship with someone who is, that way you can reap all the benefits of being a people person while not actually ever having to invest in being one.

I regret pretty much all of my teen years, say ages 13-20. My dad died when I was 12 and I had asperger's at a time and place where the teachers who were supposed to be helping me just thought I was just an ******* (of course they were half-right tbh) so by virtue of being depressed and anti-social I was a prime target for being picked on from secondary school onward.

That's all just background noise though, what I regret is how I handled it. Rather than work past my natural limitations and learn to cope with what I now regard as a very minor disability at worst I just stewed in it and when the teachers dismissed my grief and my anti-social behaviors as me just being a problem kid rather than prove them wrong like a better man should I fully embraced their narrative about me. I learned retaliation is the simplest action if you want people to just leave you alone and while I never really bullied anyone else I would go to blows at the slightest of provocations so that by high school everyone knew not to mess with me, for any reason, and I spent what should have been the time of my life depressed, isolated and "pretending to prefer being alone, thus leading to further loneliness in a vicious circle of solitude that young men of a certain temperament build for themselves and then inhabit."

I eventually came out of it with the help of two very special individuals who invaded my solitude and wouldn't leave it alone and am now mostly happy, though picky when it comes to friendships. Still I look back on my own childhood and all I can think is how much time I wasted in pointless misery and foolish self-pity, time that would have been so much better served...being a child you know?

 

[mogwai]

I put Windows 8.1 Pro on my 10 Home HP laptop, because I wanted to do pro stuff, but now most of it doesn't work.

 

[Hollow 1977]

Trying to install windows on my mom's brand new computer ended up deleting the whole hard drive. They had to reorder the software. But I began to study pc's and programs and became her IT guy.

 

[Reapergurl]

Allowing my younger sister, Ann, to be taken by Protective Services with hate in her heart for me.

I don't even know if she's still alive.

I also regret not doing something about my oldest sister's plight years ago. Because of the courts being stupid, my sister will likely remain in a bloody coma because my mother acts and EATS like A BLEEDING HOUSE CAT! (She's in an insane asylum and is my sister's PoA)

Yeah...she catches, and... (shudder) EATS MICE...

I also regret buying a house here, but...that's simply because I want to move as far away from Virginia as possible (Colorado is where I want to go).

 

[Hollow 1977]

@Reapergurl Sad story. I hope you get your wish and are able to move to Colorado. Sometimes situations are hopeless and all we can do is watch as it happens. Best of luck to you.

 

[Reapergurl]

@Hollow 1977 Thank you.

I think I got into RPGs partially because my Real Life was a hopeless situation...

 

[kaukusaki]

my only regret is jumping ship with this Japanese publisher when I had the chance. my crap boss for this one publication were in talks with them and he refused their (very reasonable) requests for the merger. I was head editor, and I had options(!) but no, when crap boss requested I return to town pronto for a conference, instead of staying in LA and working for Japanese Publisher (with options!!), I took 3 days on a Mexican charter bus and get to the home office late, only to find it was a VIDEO CONFERENCE FTW WHY THIS CLOWN WASTE MY TIME AND MONEY.
I still curse the crap boss's name to this day. He still calls me sometimes when he screws up and wants me to bail him and I be like lolz nope and hang up. To make it so bad, he comes from money. I really don't get why his businesses keep failing....
What I learned since that day - when opportunity knocks JUMP ON IT!

 

[Marquise*]

Always!

 

[HeroLite]

lol yeah. i'm like a machine built for the sole purpose of making horrible choices.