I'm wondering what people on /adv have to regret, since i may be building my own regret up
What's your biggest regret?
Hands down, getting married.
not learning how to play music as a kid. I wish I had tried harder to join band, but by the time I was given the option in the 5th grade, I felt like I was way behind the 8 ball on it and I'd only be dragging the other band members down.
I would have wanted to learn the clarinet or piano.
My biggest regret in life is having kids.
Impregnating a Thai chick who i am now stuck with because I love my child. The relationship faded about 2 years ago but we've been together 4 years. I'm 28 and I know im missing out on my youth.
Could easy come with tons of small shit but seeing how all of the calls that seemed wrong got me to where I'm at, neither seems to qualify for regret.
Maybe not being a better brother for my sister?
When we were younger I always tried to mold her into some sort of brother and generally was pretty dismissive when she didn't reach my standards instead of trying to built her up or showing any interest in what kind of person she was.
Choosing a girl over continuing school and moving to be with her. Thank God I found my way again and I know all that shit about 'mistakes you made led you to where you are now,' but if i could do it over i wouldn't have had anything to do with her
All the times I was too afraid to make a move on girls in HS. Now they’re all married with kids.
Not going to the gym sooner
Being shite, I could've at least picked a niche and monopolized on that
>What's your biggest regret?
Being born in a third world shithole.
No matter how bad your lives get, remenber that you are still far better off than everyone in the thirdworld.
Why would you regret that? Do you not like the feeling of being tied down?
Music is a great skill to learn, i cant fathom it but that makes me enjoy it so much more.
I always thought having children would be great, having mini versions of you running around.
Thats the regret im building now. Im leaving college in a month and a bit and i wont see this girl anymore. She's the only girl who has ever made me laugh.
At least youre going now user. Sooner than later
You surely must excel at something man. Not a single thing?
I cant argue with that one bit, you lose a major advantage. I always thought living on a council estate for my whole life is shit, then i realised people have it far worse
When I was 13 I had like 4 e-bfs at once from r9k (this was before soc was made) and sent them all a bunch of really depraved nudes. When I was 14 I willingly stayed brainwashed in an (irl) abusive relationship and allowed him to do fucked up things that he knew i hated. I want to just bury those events and forget it all ever happened.
I agree, in the western world about half the people you meet are already fucked up in their minds. I think you avoid/ditch more people than you keep friends in live just because they are so crazy and stupid. And it must be 10 times worse in a third world country.
This sounds so awful user. I hope you can one day tuck these events away. I hope those mother fuckers who sexually took advantage of you, especially the irl boy, get there balls cut off with nail clippers. Im so sorry user, its genuinely awful to hear x
Very true. There are a few exceptions of course, but they're rare and i only have 1 person i would consider a friend. Third world countries suck ass
i didnt brush my teeth as a kid and adolescent, now they're all fucked up. I don't think anyone has noticed, as i try not to show off my teeth as much as possible, but my biggest fear is someone calling me out on my gross teeth and making fun of me for it.
When i was 12 i used to drink straight litres of mountin dew daily and didnt even brush my teeth until bed. Looking back, im surprised i still have my teeth and no diabetes. I bet your teeth are alright, no one has spotless, shiny pearls without cashing out
It’s not too late. Do you go to the dentist now?
Nah I don't go to the dentist, but i brush regularly now. I don't think it can be fixed though, as i think almost every tooth in my mouth has a cavity, and there are big ugly ones on my front teeth. Pretty sure I'd have to get dentures or implants, and im too poor for implants and fuck dentures, my teeth still work, they're just really gross.
>Why would you regret that? Do you not like the feeling of being tied down?
It's way more than that, believe me. I got married because I thought it would be a way to be part of a team. But, it's not. In a marriage, one person always gets used. Think of having a room mate: if you are the one that likes the place nice, you'll be the one that does more of the cleaning. It's like that only in every aspect of your life.
Unless you definitely want children, you should never contemplate getting married. I think about leaving her on a weekly basis and I'm getting closer to acting upon that each day.
So guys, should I try talking to this girl I have a genuine interest in. I've never actually found a girl this good but I'm unsure whether she's even interested
Ask her? Even if there arent any signs just go for it.
Met a girl last year, love at first sight. We would talk all the time, laughs, serious talks etc. I was crazy for her. Unfortunately I was suffering from serious anxiety.
I had been broken up with a few months prior, after a 2.5 year relationship, and literally could not believe I had met someone like this new girl. I couldn’t tell her how I felt and like that she was gone.
In some ways I don’t regret it, as I know alot more about myself and life because of how things went down, but from time to time I remember how I could have done it.
Was it like that before? Not OP but the missus and I have been steady 7 years as a strong, bonded team.
Was this the case for you before? How long did you wait til marriage?
Sabotaging my own friendship with a dear friend of mine
We lived together for the first few years and she was doing very good. But after that she got laid off and instead of finding employment, she started a business. At first I was all on board, but then years started going by and all she did was just come around with her hand out for cash.
I make quite a bit more than she does and I don't expect her to keep up. But after awhile, I felt like I was being used.
Now, the anger and bitterness is just so deep, a part of me will always hate her for what she did to us. I'm not at the point where I want to fuck her over, but just to be relieved of my responsibility. I have already told her that I'm quitting my job in a couple of years and she's going to have to take over. I'd rather lose my house than continue to support her, honestly.
That's tough man. I hope she gets herself a proper job soon. If she has the brains and ambition to try and start her own business, I'm sure she would have the ambition to save her marriage if she loves you. You oughtta have a talk with her if you already haven't already.
She's not the best looking girl I've ever seen, but I still see her as gorgeous and this is amplified by the fact she is so funny, gets my humour and has a great vibe. I've made her laugh a couple times, she's said hi to me in front of her friends when she walked by and I catch her eye everyone when I walk by her. I'm piecing together events here like a little kid. My thinking is I may aswell try, what's there really to lose?
Not taking school seriously
Why do you regret that?
Well, I'd hope she'd care about the marriage, but if she has any power to turn things around is a completely other story.
A couple of years ago, I actually wrote her a letter and made her read it in front of me. And I've always told her how hard it's been for me. I'm to the point where I'm going into therapy regularly just so that I don't just walk out on her right now.
How?
Does she know you got to therapy? Do you enjoy being with her though? Does she make you happy?
If you want to revive the relationship, which I believe you can. I know what you mean when you have the bitterness underneath, I had that with my past relationship and I had to end it because she just couldn't be my wife. She had no hobbies, passions and wasn't even healthy. It was a chore to be with her. Then i woke up and realised if she could hear my mind she would be shattered so I pulled the trigger.
It's much harder if you're married because you can't separate like strangers in the night. If I was in your shoes, and you had a ray of hope in her and the entire future with her, then I'd have a serious chat with her as soon as I could. I'd express my deepest concerns then pour out my hope for life with her. Talk about seeing the world, new visions for the both of you shared in a capsule of lifelong memories. I hope you can recover yourself life user, sincerely.
Yes, I definitely tell her that I'm going to therapy, I tell her that I'm feeling like I'm cracking up, and that my/our future does nothing but scare me.
At this point, I don't even want her in my life anymore, but it makes me sad. I just can't taking being a sole provider anymore. So much resentment I can barely sleep.
Does she do nothing around the house?
She takes care of the laundry as well as cooks sometimes. But we share basic household tasks.
It's the lack of financial help that is literally stressing me out of my mind.
I regret asking my crush if he wanted something serious, only to learn he was only behaving romantically towards me because he thought he had to. I wish I hadn't asked him or never met him to begin with.
Is she not trying to find a job or doing some work?
She is working on her business, but I'm supporting her in the meantime, hundreds a month.
Going to college for an art degree. I'm rectifying this now and getting a slightly more practical degree now but it sucks being 30 in college. Wish I had just done it all at 18.
Not quiting drinking sooner
Ended up wasting a lot of cash and throwing a year of my life away
That's a lot of money to be pouring down. What exactly is her business and is she making any profit or she all investing?
You chased something you believed in. Why do you regret your choice?
Damn straight it is, especially after over 2 years.
She does online marketing, she has managed to get a few clients this year, but in the meantime, all the financial shit is on me. And we're already middle-aged too, so it's not like we have a ton of time to get this off the ground.
Should have hedged your position by double majoring. Imagine being the only engineer with some bullshit art double major. Employers would at least find it amusing.
Letting my mother's physical, emotional and sexual abuse put me in a hole for 28 years. My routine was autonomic, and involved staying in my room while leeching off of my father. Recent revelations made me finally realize how much of a negative influence my mother is and cut her out. Now I'm starting to care about shit, and all of these years of self neglect and guilt is catching up. I shouldn't kill myself, but don't know where to start.
Letting my mom decide my future for me when I was a teenager. I'm now a college drop out with 50k worth of debt.
Thanks mom
I really regret not being more rebellious as a teenager
I wish I had done a trade instead of going to college. And I wish I had fucked more women in high school.
That's about it.
Not doing CS, also, not getting my parents to teach me or get someone else to teach me art or instruments
divorce is a real bitch
got damn dude why?
>ragrets
o fuk where do I start
You deserve your suffering.
My biggest regret is not doing more with my life, not taking more risks and using my youth to its fullest. Also not having more sex.
The only things I regret are the things I didn't do. I mean, I've done some stupid things of course, but I never really regretted them. There's always too much to learn and gain, which makes regret impossible. But you gain nothing from the things you never did.
>I always thought having children would be great, having mini versions of you running around
Nope. It's hundreds of thousands of dollars until they turn 18, and if they fuck up in their life, its always the parent's fault.
People romanticize about having children because they think it will complete them or some shit. They never consider the consequences.
These are some of my biggest fears, having kids unexpectedly and wasting my youth and worse being stuck with someone I don't love because of them. I'm 26 now but I'm taking a year of celibacy while I figure out the next steps in my life/career, I don't need a kid before I've made it financially, kids are wonderful when you are ready for them but when you're not, they literally ruin everything.
Gave up on my brother and he killed himself with drugs. I could have helped him sort himself out.
not him but I've made similar choices; chasing after things that I thought I wanted but which ended up being the thing I regretted. I wouldn't say I regret the choice anymore but I still wonder what would have happened had things been different and while it's commendable accomplishing something you believe in, I understand how someone could have a change of heart and then feel like they wasted their time and have to start all over again.
I ghosted all my friends about a year ago due to anxiety and depression
I hope they don't hate me
I don't have any. I feel like I've followed the path I wanted.
If I needed one it was not doing more towards people who wrong me earlier in life, like revenge. But even if I did it now it wouldn't be as fun.
Being a stupid lazy faggot who never gave a shit about anything important until it was way too late.
Not enlisting in the US Military out of High School. Now I dont have the option as a foreigner.
I can still enlist in my country's military but the benefits are worse.
A bit hard to explain because I'm not from the US or UK, but choosing a specialization in languages for my "high school" degree has been so far my biggest regret. It was something that I learned years later that didn't lead to career directions I liked.
Can you go to therapy about this? As an aside, after learning about childhood development and psychology in general, I don't really "regret" anything I did or didn't do before 20. So much at a young age is driven by your upbringing and circumstance, and you simply lack common knowledge of the world. Those men were all manipulative and abusive, committed actual crimes, and should be the only ones with regret. I am sorry this happened, but I'm glad you're well enough to look back on this and be out of these situations.
I regret not taking the plunge and going to a better university. Still have a great job, great pay, and I only have $20,000 in debt (will get that paid off easily in a couple years). But I feel I could've learned more at a more rigorous school.
Plus, going to a community college first was weak advice. Really missed out on a lot of socialization
My high school days were fucking WASTED. Had I actually got my physical and academic shit together when I was 15 or 16 I'd be running marathons and finished med school by now.
Instead I got addicted to weebshit, spend over 2000 hours on an MMO and it took a failed exchange program to Japan to wake me up to the reality that I was a fat sack of shit who would not in fact end up with a comfy, high paying translator job.
got a guys name tattooed on my mons.
we broke up and was able to hide it with my bush but when I had my child and they shaved me for birth the whole room could see. My husband knew I had a tattoo down there but could never make out what it said and I didn't tell but now he does. It hasn't been pleasant since the only reason I broke up with the ex was he went to prison. I mean it was the best thing that could happen to me and I got my life back and straightened up, ultimately meeting my husband.
I finally got with the girl of my dreams physically.
She rejected me but we remained good friends.
I loved her for three years, during those years I would fantasy about getting with her.
It happened, all of my fantasies came through.
She came onto me really strong and told me everything I wanted to hear.
I rocked her world that night and fell deeper in love.
The next day it is like I am dead, she just blanks me.
I just have this hollow void now, my best friend is gone and all my dreams about her are gone too.
I feel so used, I have not been able to jerk off since because nothing turns me on like her.
Be careful what you wish for.
She cheated on my with a close friend. Sucked his dick the last night he was in town (he moved away to study in a different country)
I found out and broke up with her.
A week later we randomly meet in a bar. She is a mess. Asks me if I could take her home (about 500 meters from the bar). I reluctantly say yes. In front of her house she tells me she is willing to do anything if I forgive her for blowing my friend. She also tells me she is home alone. (she was 18 at the time still living with her dad)
My dick connects the ''do anything'' with ''home alone'' and I get horny.
I sexually humiliated her in every way I could imagine (also inspiration from porn). On top of that I told her to smile like a dumb cunt during the painful and humiliating acts I was putting her through. 2 hours in she tells me her dad will come home soon. I tell her that I'm not satisfied and want more.
Fucked her up real bad on two other occasions , constantly pushing beyond her limits. She broke down completely. I didn't care much. Continued to fuck her like a cheap piece of meat for another month.
Then an opportunity popped up randomly and I moved to a different country. When I left she was a submissive shell of her former self. Didn't brake up with her then and there. One month in I started fucking a different girl and I told her about it. It crushed her. She failed her high-school final exam, deleted all her social media and just vanished of the face of the earth.
I asked around regarding her whereabouts but nobody has seen her since.
Pretty sure she is still alive, but most likely I fucked her up.
Sometimes my dick still gets hard remember the depraved shit I made her do. And usually when my balls are empty I feel some regret because of how rough I was with her...
Not getting a job. I graduated nearly four years ago, but I was too proud to get a job waiting tables or serving drinks at that time, thinking something better would come along. Now that I'm in my mid-twenties, I'm too embarrassed to apply for what would be my first job. Nobody would hire me, and I'd be too old and overqualified to be anything but ashamed of myself if they did. I don't know what to do about it at this point, so I spend all day in my room waiting to die. It can't come soon enough.
Mid-twenties.
You got this bro.
Many employees will be interested. Especially in corporations because they consider that they can ''form'' you.
Ur safe until you hit 30. Things will be a bit harder then.
Thanks, user. I hope you're right, but I don't really know where to turn. No one has ever really given me any direction, so I don't know where to apply or how to get any prospective employer's attention. Should I just get a job doing anything in the meantime?
What country are you located in? I lived and worked in 8 different countries from 20 to 30
That's a shiny fucking dick.
I'm a Britbong. I tried to get a job teaching abroad, but it fell through and I can't say I'm particularly eager to get a job in London or any of the large cities around here.
I assume Britbong is UK. If so I also lived there for about 8 months.
Now here is my advice. There is an app on android (probably on iphone as well) that only hires native speakers to teach english. You don't need any qualifications of any kind and you work from home.
You want to feel bad about yourself, it's your choice. You want to get the ball rolling look up this app on your phone. Start small, the snowball effect is real.
Can't remember the name of the top of my head, I'll post it if it come to mind.
''Classgap: online tutors'' is the name of the app.
I've downloaded the app. Thanks, user.
Not hanging out with my grandpa enough. I will probably always think that, but i wish i could have hung out with him even more. We used to play cards a lot together, almost daily.
One of my dogs also died very suddenly because she ate some paper towels off the floor that were soaking up piss from one of our other dogs. This triggered her IMHA and she died 2 months later from neglect at this stupid ass emergency vet hospital. I regret not cleaning up those paper towels and taking her to the emergency vet. Bunch of idiots. She was only 8
being fat as a kid. it sort of isn't my fault due to how they were feeding me at home but i feel after 14/15 i could have been in shape, and here i am at 21 still trying to get fit.
if you have kids, don't let them be fat! it gave me confidence issues and made me miss a lot of experiences
I feel you on this one user. My parents essentially disowned my brother, I was his main family contact, knew he had a heroin problem but relied too heavily on his friends nearby to check on him instead of getting him into proper rehab. OD'd the day after our grandma's funeral when he saw my parents for the first time in years. I hope you're hanging in there, I know the guilt never really subsides. For what it's worth, I try to donate now and then to rehab clinics that use good methodologies.
Not giving this black older women I befriended at a job long ago my seed she was tall and beautiful (taller then me) and she wanted my mug dick and would talk about wanting more kids but godamnit I was going through tough times and I never got the chance to fuck her before I quit the job. Its so stupid but i should have done it to get it out the way and she would have kept it without me paying a cent. If it had been girl gosh she would have been a beauty
What are you studying now?
As for op answer
I'm 20 years old and I threw away my highschool years I dripped out and been Neeting ever since although I already have a high school diploma I feel I missed a great experience and all because I had severe acne but still a few girls would invite me to parties and I wouldn't go all I did was browse online and play video games and because of sitting from an early age all day on a chair I didn't developed correctly most my brothers are taller than me.
Tried to kill myself a few times didn't succeeded.
Tried college but felt like and outsider with all those smart guys that knew calculus and high math.
Had a great childhood semi great experience until I turned 15 5 years ago every thing went to shit
Ah, a dudes arms. Even if you're not mad ripped the tone is still attractive.
10/10, would still touch despite acne
I sucked balls at math. But I got into trig. Long story short I bombed the class because I worked nights. If you're dumb you work 2 times as hard.
Not fucking more Asian guys before I settled down.
I regret missing out on high school love. I had one very big crush back then and when I look back, she actually was into me. We shared the same interests spot on, we had the same ambitions and views on the world, all that stuff. My fondest memory is sitting on the abandoned railroad bridge across a little stream with her in late summer and jamming with our guitars.
I was so afraid of rejection from her and I never had the courage to confess to her. She got a boyfriend later and now probably moved to God knows where. It's still a bittersweet memory and it's so hard to find someone like her these days.
when i approached this girl randomly to talk to which i dont do normally, didnt text her enough and never really asked her out
the reason why i did that was because i wanted a gf from a convention only to lose out with that one girl i met randomly. all i really got out of tanking for that convention was a date with a cute girl from the con that ultimately went nowhere after that first date.
i really payed for that because after i hit the first girl up, she told met that since the last time we had texted shes gotten a bf .
im an idiot
I regret not going to be at a reasonable hour. It is almost 5:30 now.
Going to an all-boys school. It destroyed my ability to socialize with women and it meant I never had a group of female friends I could dip my cock into.
Having regrets is an absolute waste of time, accept that everything in your life was done because that's what you wanted to do at the time.