Any Regrets?

[dragonswarrior]

Ha!! I still wince at memories of things I did in middle school. Hells yes I have regrets.

Gotta just keep going, never repeat mistakes, always get better. I haven't really been able to forgive myself but I have come to terms with the fact that I am no longer the same person I was when I was a kid. That helps.

Which sounds pretty obvious but it can pretty hard when you remember doing the stuff.

 

[EHKOS]

Yes, many. Like buying Journey. I knew I KNEW it wasn't worth $15! $10 maybe.

 

[Chappy]

I have regrets probably more than I can write down, I even regret some things that I know will happen because I can't help myself but eh I learn to live with it.

The majority of the things I regret are from secondary school 13-16 though I have a few when I was younger and older still.

 

[Nuuu]

Trading that Vintage Vintage Merryweather for a Strange Sniper in TF2, darn it i didnt know proper prices, stranges just came out, and i was desperate for that Strange.

Also changing my name to Nuuu when The Escapist was being attacked. GIVE ME MY NAME BACK!

No real regrets, but im only 15, i got plenty of time to regret my teen years.

 

[Chemical Alia]

Staying in situations that aren't good because I don't want to hurt people's feelings, placing others above myself all the time.

I dont consider putting others above myself a bad thing, but it does get the better of me sometimes. I stayed in a relationship I shouldn't have too long, to avoid hurting someone, ended up hurting everyone.

Of course, I was younger then and I think I've learned from it, but I still find myself delaying because I dont want to hurt people's feelings.

Same exact thing, here. Eight years is a really long time, and I still haven't found a way to deal with it.

 

[Jedoro]

Nope. Everything that happened how it did, made me who I am today. If anything had been different, it'd be someone else sitting here wondering if they regret anything.

 

[Xanthious]

I tend to live by the philosophy that I can't change the past and the future isn't promised to anyone so I focus on the present and don't worry about what's come before or what might come after.

 

[Seanfall]

Well Recently I regret buying Space Marine.

In the long run a lot of things. Not standing up for myself in school, not putting Bradly Lohr's head threw the wall like the little snot deserved. Yeah most of my regrets are from school. Oh and just....I regret my dad. Nothing specific I just regret ever knowing him.

 

[bullet_sandw1ch]

i wish i didnt over eat as a kid. my overweight self would thank me.

 

[Fenra]

Not picking up that £1 coin I saw on the street, I could have afforded that sandwhich today if I did! Instead I had to settle for just a bag of crisps and a Dr Pepper for lunch

 

[Easton Dark]

Wish I'd won my first fight in Middle School and didn't cry like a ***** afterwards... Easy to get over though. Oh well. Move on with life. *whistles*

Huh. Guess now I don't have any regrets. Um... I Wish I'd have had sex by now? After hearing people getting some at 14-15-16, I feel like I've been missing out.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

No regrets... Shit has happened in my life, but not something I really think I could have changed, and now I am better for it!

I suppose the biggest thing I have as a regret is that I gave up swimming when I was too young... I was really good, I would probably be swimming for the RAF now, but I stopped just because I didn't know anyone there! :/ Crap reason to be honest...!

 

[Headsprouter]

Is there anything from your past that you still beat yourself up over?

For me it's the way I used to act in high school to try to get people to like me. I was basically an unfunny class clown. I was always saying weird and perverted things to make myself look 'wacky' when I really wasn't. I had a small group of friends that liked me for who I was but, looking back on it now, I ended up pushing a lot of potential friends away (not to mention all the people that I pissed off...). I hate it when people I know from high school come up to me and talk about some of the buffoonish things I used to do, it just makes me cringe on the inside >_<

So escapists, are there things that you wish you could do over?

Same. At the start of secondary school I was such a desperate junior....I'm much more down to earth now, and when I say stuff during class, it's usually intelligent, or actually funny. However, I did not have many friends back then, but now I have many, and no enemies with any true reasons to dislike me.

I do an ungodly amount of procrastination but I do okay in school itself (mostly a C student with the occasional B's and D's)

Also, exactly the same. Morbid procrastinator, Ds, Cs, Bs.

And, sometimes I beat myself up for looking up from my work in English class and seeing that girl on the opposite end of the room staring at me....why does that piss me off so much?

 

[Hawk eye1466]

As my best friend and I would yell after asking that question and just before we go down the first hill of a roller coaster, NEVER AHAHAHA!

But in all honesty yeah one or two things, like trusting some people that went out of their way to be dicks, not remembering how to play presidents, being nicer to some people, staying in touch with some of my closer friends that are at different high schools and remembering to do my goddamned homework.

 

[Chasing-The-Light]

After my last relationship ended, I was still really in love with my ex-girlfriend even though we were trying to remain just friend. Even so, I did a lot to try and get her back together with me. On one occasion her and I decided to have sex again, and it ruined everything and to this day she holds it over me and vilifies me to everyone. I regret that more than anything else. Urgh...

 

[WolfThomas]

Nope, everything I did stupid or wrong lead to this moment where I am going to be a doctor in less than a year and I have a great girlfriend.

 

[Zeema]

That i didn't get Payback on the people who did this too me

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

I probably should of worked harder in school and played less online. Its just hard you know. I spent most of my childhood completely alone void of any friendships and then I suddenly find all these wonderful people who love me for who I am online. I sort of lost myself in it.

I mean I still did good, I graduated college with a Bachelors Degree I can see myself becoming very successful in my field. But still, I often think if I could be more. As a kid I wanted to be a scientist, to apply my critical thinking skills towards solving real world problems. Now my degree is in the entertainment industry. My childhood self would of spit on me for doing what I've done.

 

[cerealnmuffin]

I happen to be mtf trans and I wish I had transitioned earlier. Sure I pass without issue, and am completely stealth, some people even think cute, I started hormones at 23. I should have just went to middle school wearing a dress but I was a stupid coward due to living in the south, daily experiencing harsh bullying even from teachers (had a teacher furious at me for crossing my legs) and my parents were very harsh when I tried to tell them at 11. They still don't accept me though claim they are open minded people who hate bigotry. I was given the option to dress as a girl in 7th grade for halloween but I was too nervous to say yes. To this day and the day I die, I will never forgive myself hence why I sometimes starve myself. Wish I was born into one of those supportive families, but I guess I'm not worth anything. Sadly, I don't even have any friends to really fall back on for support.

Also I wish I took up piano when I was young. I feel like I'm playing catch up learning in my 20's. Sure, I learned how to play some great pieces like Howl's Moving Castle, but if only I had started earlier instead of watching TV shows I didn't like. It would have been a good outlet considering how much my life was hell back then.

I would add in all the years spent working on my writing, but I just landed a literary agent for my trans teen novel. Sure I like writing, but the constant rejection letters over a decade saying how good of a writer I am, but too niche was crushing. With this latest manuscript, I've gotten a lot of positive responses from other agents. My agent thinks she knows some publishers who would be interested. My parents refuse to read any books trans related, but maybe just maybe they'd read this one. Perhaps something can go right in my existence.

 

[BathorysGraveland]

Hmm, back in school I used to bully weaker kids to feel better about myself. I regret it now and certainly have no pride about it, but I don't exactly beat myself up over it either. I was in my early to mid-teens and I was an idiot who did idiotic things. You just got to move on from it, really.