Regret Regret Regret...

Kotaro

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I'm ashamed of the fanfiction that I wrote as a kid/teen, and I wish I'd never written any of it. Terrible stuff.

I'm proud of myself getting certified for IT work. Even though I mostly repair broken game consoles. Still, I worked hard to get that certification, and finally got it.
 

ryessknight

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I got alot i regret but luckly my memorys crap so i dont remeber half of em. Falling for two different girls on ff11 and later wow just to have my heart broken both times is pretty high up there on my list though sigh.
 

Imperioratorex Caprae

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Regret is a word I don't use, for hindsight is 20/20 and useless except in making future decisions. Therefore all actions are, for better or worse outcomes, useful as a learning tool against future fuckups. That being said I'm proud that my mistakes haven't been overt, no jail time or even on-record arrests.
 

Poetic Nova

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I regret most relationships I had with my ex's, they only screwed me over one way or another.
 

Bat Vader

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I regret both of the crushes that I have had in my 26 years of being alive on this earth. The first one was back in 2008-2009. I went to a trade school for people with mental and/or physical disabilities and of course I met someone down there I liked. She was already in a relationship and I was dumb enough to become a friend of hers. Long story short nothing happened and I wasted a year of my life liking someone that was already taken.

Another one happened at my work place and lasted a couple of months. Same situation but I was able to kill my feelings for her pretty quickly.

I'm proud of my little to no social interaction life I have lived because it has made it easier for me to hate or forget about someone. I could be the best of friends with someone but in the blink of an eye could instantly hate them or not care about them any more.
 

Strazdas

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well played toad, well played.

I both regret and am proud of same thing if we boil it all down to basics.
and that thing is - my mental problems.
On one hand i regret them because they make life harder. for one, i would likely never have a gilrfriend in my life (you seem to regret girlfriends a lot here in this thread i see) and it does create a lot of other roadblocks in my life i have to defeat, without going to deep into it.
On the other hand i am proud i am strongwilled enough to defeat the roadblocks and reached the point where i am actually working in a job i like. i am proud i managed to push though these blocks and push towards higher education (i actually like that btw). And i am proud i have defeated my depressions and am actually happy in life now and worst thing i could say about myself is lonely, so yeah, not bad life at all.

Imperioratorex Caprae said:
Regret is a word I don't use, for hindsight is 20/20 and useless except in making future decisions. Therefore all actions are, for better or worse outcomes, useful as a learning tool against future fuckups. That being said I'm proud that my mistakes haven't been overt, no jail time or even on-record arrests.
some things are good to learn from, some are better to not have happened. To give an extreme example, we could learn a lot from nuclear war, but id rather it would not happen.

King of Asgaard said:
I regret being a spineless coward when it comes to initiating relationships, in that I only did it once and it ended poorly.
hey, at least you tried, i never got that far.
 

Foolery

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Well, I regret being an alien bastard. And I most definitely regret coming to earth.
 

Imperioratorex Caprae

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Strazdas said:
well played toad, well played.
some things are good to learn from, some are better to not have happened. To give an extreme example, we could learn a lot from nuclear war, but id rather it would not happen.
Can't really regret a nuclear war, only feel horror, sorrow, and pity over it... Unless I caused it somehow. And then I'd probably have no regrets anyway because there would be nothing for me to have regret over... I'd probably be dead since I live near quite a few strategic military targets.
Either way there's not much to regret, and not much time to do it in.
 

FPLOON

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I regret nothing!

OT: Damn... I can't think of anything I regret, overall... (I think that's just my smugness talking, though...)

At least I can't say I'm not proud of still living...
 

Zanderinfal

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See, I have this problem with being resilient. Is in, I'm not very resilient. At all. In the last couple of months I've been working to improve on that, and for about 3-4 weeks I was doing pretty well, but it seems that things will always get to me in the end and I end up really frustrated with myself because if I could just hear myself saying "Get out there and do what is you have to do, you fuckin' idiot! You'll be fine!" ...then I'd be fine. Argh.

Something I'm proud of? Well, not to toot my own horn but I'm getting pretty good at drums and singing. I'm thinking of taking up guitar as well at some stage. I'm starting to be able to play full on heavy metal songs on both vocals AND drums, which is something I'm quietly happy about. I want to be a professional musician, you see, so the ability to nail this stuff gives me a real buzz. And besides, in a few weeks I'll be performing a death metal song for my music class in high school. That's going to be awesome, really anxious and itching to go out and perform.
 

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cnaltman62 said:
I'm ashamed of the fanfiction that I wrote as a kid/teen, and I wish I'd never written any of it. Terrible stuff.
I hear that.
I'm proud of getting my advanced diving license at 15 and my multiple language skills.
 

Soviet Heavy

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Dead Century said:
Well, I regret being an alien bastard. And I most definitely regret coming to earth.
You most definitely regret the Corps just blew up your raggedy ass fleet! Oorah!
 

JagermanXcell

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The only real one I can think of is not going into Art School sooner. But that's more or less over shadowed by the fact that I'm in community college, and since I live in California, it's literally the best most easiest way of transferring into a 4 year soooooo uuuuuhm... I regret the boring yet easy way out?! Eh, not really.

I'm not one for holding on to regrets, it's pretty icky feely on the inside.

As for what I'm proud of:
-Growing out of my socially awkward self mid way through high school... then again who hasn't felt great about that feeling!
-A few days ago my girlfriend tried to break up with me over text with little to know reason as to why, which I wouldn't stand for what with everything we've been through. So we set up a day we'd talk about it, I told her she needed to realize she can't just drop connections with me because she'd think she'd hurt me in the long run, and I told her i'd be willing to go into a platonic relationship if I had to because I respected her so, and never wanted to lose sight of her because I loved the real her. Praise the f***ing sun, she had that look in her eye like she was blind and was able to see again and changed her mind, my first girlfriend stayed my girlfriend.
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I, the man, actually won an argument against her, the woman.

Holy Sh-

To hell with regrets.
 

Eddie the head

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You know the first thing that comes to mind is this girl I wish I would have said something to in High School. But when I think about it I'm not sad about it so regret is not the right word. More or less I just kind of wonder what would have happened. Maybe it has something to do with the fact I never had a "thing" for her, she had a "thing" for me.

FPLOON said:
I regret nothing!
That's right LIVE YOUR LIFE WITHOUT REGRETS!!! Only a coward thinks he'll always live If it keeps himself from strife.

Well there is a reference to something I don't think most people will get.
 

Blood Brain Barrier

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Casual Shinji said:
There's nothing I'm too proud of, since I seriously haven't achieved anything meaningful in my life... Except for not being a shitbag anymore.
That might be more of an achievement than you think - after all, Alfred Nobel's legacy was dynamite yet we all admire him to the point of naming the biggest prizes in science and even 'world peace' (hah!) after him. If I were a mother whose son had been killed in a bombing I'd probably have preferred old Alfie sat around playing video games. I'm quite sure the world would be a better place if a large number of 'overachievers' in history had been idle. The jury's still out on Dr. Einstein.
 

King of Asgaard

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Strazdas said:
King of Asgaard said:
I regret being a spineless coward when it comes to initiating relationships, in that I only did it once and it ended poorly.
hey, at least you tried, i never got that far.
All I got for my effort was a broken heart and dissuasion to ever attempt it again. The sad thing is, the flame has yet to go out for her completely and she is one of my best friends.

Frankly, you're not missing much in forgoing the whole endeavour.
 

Remus

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SonOfVoorhees said:
Im 37. I still remember when i was 13ish and went to the careers adviser as part of my schooling (am in the UK) before i chose what subjects i wanted to chose. I really had a passion to be an architect or graphic designer. The adviser and me chatted for a while and i remember her saying that you have to be really good at those jobs due to competition. An somehow she talked me out of it, maybe it was because i was 13 and saw her as someone that new what she was talking about. I regret that i payed any attention to her bullshit opinion. This is something i will tell everyone at a young age as a caution.
I've learned that given the opportunity, career advisers will always talk people out of their dreams, like every person they come across is only fit for McDonald's or a Nike factory. When asked, I tell people to do whatever they like with their life, regardless of challenge, the market, or whatever other statistical categories advisers like to use as a deterrent.
 

Euryalus

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Blood Brain Barrier said:
Casual Shinji said:
There's nothing I'm too proud of, since I seriously haven't achieved anything meaningful in my life... Except for not being a shitbag anymore.
That might be more of an achievement than you think - after all, Alfred Nobel's legacy was dynamite yet we all admire him to the point of naming the biggest prizes in science and even 'world peace' (hah!) after him. If I were a mother whose son had been killed in a bombing I'd probably have preferred old Alfie sat around playing video games. I'm quite sure the world would be a better place if a large number of 'overachievers' in history had been idle. The jury's still out on Dr. Einstein.
We admire him because he was the one who set up the prize system to celebrate people who have furthered humanity. He was horrified by what his invention was used for. Hence the peace prizes existence.