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What's the 1 thing you regret the most??

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#1 ·
After seeing this video, i kinda thought how this dude must regret obviously turning into a criminal.




What is ONE major regret you have?

As for myself, probably not having a chance to get to learn more about my dad before he passed (when i was about 17)
 
#3 ·
^ I've been very close to being caught doing silly stuff...such as taking stuff. Although not as serious as yourself i'm sure. One time i was at Khols and got tempted to take a shirt..& to make a long story short i got caught. Luckily it was under 50 bucks. I was pretty embarrassed not to mention scared. Ever since then, i stopped doing anything of sorts. Not worth getting a record for me. Luckily there was no record, they just banned me from their store LOL
 
#4 ·
The way I treated my ex girlfriend. I never cheated on her or hit her, anything like that. But just how I talked to her the last year we were together. I just took all of my frustration out on her, I guess. I never meant to, it just happened and I wouldn't even realize it. Snapping at her over stupid shit that she had nothing to do with. Because everything else sucked and she was the only good (the absolute best) thing in my life. It wasn't always, just me being grouchy here and there, but still. That's more than enough.

She didn't deserve that. The first year, it was just always perfect between us. Then that... I think about it every day and it's been five years. Something I'll probably always regret and never forgive myself for. Tl;dr = I'm a ass.
 
#6 · (Edited)
Probably being incredibly apathetic in school after 6th Grade. I just stopped giving a shit. In my Elementary/early Middle School years, I was an A+ Honor Roll student in Honors classes. 7th Grade was pretty bad, but after that, it was just downhill for me academically. Despite pulling in Cs and Ds and not giving a shit, I was still in AP (College course) classes in High School. I have no idea how that happened, though I always excelled in History and English. I had to go to Summer School after my Senior year because my GPA was below the 2.0 threshold. I definitely squandered whatever academic potential I may have had. Oh well.

If someone asked me why, I can't come up with an answer as to why I became so distant from my academics.
 
#11 ·
Not spending more time getting to know my father. When my parents got divorced (I was three years old), both my brother and sister chose to live with him. I got stuck with my mother, per court orders. Don't get me wrong, my mother did the best she could, and raised me as well as she could. But I can't help but wonder what my life would have been like had I chosen at age 13 to go live with him instead. There was a lot she didn't (and couldn't) teach me about growing up, that I now know he could have. My life would probably be very different right now, and maybe a lot better off. Plus I would actually be on speaking terms with my father. Then again I would probably be spending a lot of time regretting a lifetime of different mistakes instead of the ones that haunt me to this day. Who is to say.
 
#16 ·
Not being nicer to my grandfather after his stroke. It pissed me off at the time because he remembered who my sister was, he remembered my father, he remembered my grandmother...he seemingly remembered everyone other than me. He kept calling me the name of his other son who'd been dead for almost 20 years at that point. And this was despite the fact I spent much more time going over to my grandparents' house when we were kids than my sister did, despite the fact I was almost certainly a lot closer to the grandparents on my father's side than my sister was...

I was only 14 when it happened and 15 when he died, so I wasn't yet as calm or as understanding as I'd later get. But I still should have tried harder to be nicer and spend more time with him in his last days.
 
#17 ·
Probably not taking music serious enough when I was younger.

From 2008 to 2010, I had the perfect opportunity. My homeboy was a producer and had his own studio, had several concerts (even opened for Pastor Troy) and was fortunate enough to get my music played in clubs in Atlanta.

But instead of capitalizing on those opportunities, I chose to hang out in the hood all day

Not saying I would've got signed but combining the confidence I had in my music with what I know now, it's the one period of my life I wish I could change because the opportunity was there. I was just stuck with the mentality that 12 hours a day in the studio with the ability to make money in the future wasn't worth forgoing the 12 hours on the block with the ability to make money now.
 
#18 ·
It be easier to say what I don't regret than what I do regret though mostly its relationships & wrong turning down Dead Ends of the Crossroads of Life.
 
#33 · (Edited)
I commend you for getting over your vice and bettering yourself. A lot of people tend to play the victim with their vices, expecting sympathy, but you took hold of it and overcame it.

I can understand the appeal of drinking in college. I'm not even a partier but stress and anxiety and fear and just the overall college culture could easily pressure someone into becoming addicted to something.

Biggest regret is never going to college. I graduated high school 17th in a class of over 400, and even graduated a year early, at the age of 16. But my parents didn't want me to go away to school at such a young age and I didn't want to go to the local college. I started working two weeks after I graduated and I've pretty much been working my butt off ever since in low paying jobs. I feel like I should've done much more with my life.
That's the wonderful thing about college. There's no time limit on it. You can be fucking 70 and go back to college. 80, 90, in your fucking hundreds.

Who cares? If it's something you want to do, do it. There's never a 'right' time to go to college, just a time that majority do and a lot end up wasting their time or working on a degree they don't like. My mother went back into nursing school when she 50 with five fucking kids. You never stop learning and you never have to limit yourself when it comes to education. Online classes, training, night classes, there's so many options and you can and should so whatever you want to.

And you never have to be stuck in one thing forever. You can have 12 different careers in your life if you feel like putting in the work. So go, get that motherfucking education and I'd be happy as fuck to hear about it.

 
#26 ·
Making an account here. It's 3:00 AM now where I live and I am lurking this fucking forum, when people in my age are snorting cocaine from firm asses.
 
#28 ·
Biggest regret is never going to college. I graduated high school 17th in a class of over 400, and even graduated a year early, at the age of 16. But my parents didn't want me to go away to school at such a young age and I didn't want to go to the local college. I started working two weeks after I graduated and I've pretty much been working my butt off ever since in low paying jobs. I feel like I should've done much more with my life.
 
#35 · (Edited)
Such a difference in perspective on the same thing ....

I was a gifted student that managed to fast-track through school and university and ended up with a full MBA by the time I was 22 in part because of the tremendous pressure of my parents to be successful in life ... To the point where I ended up divorced, burnt out and a complete and utter mess by the time I was 30 ... Oh I made money. I had short 2 year careers in 4 major corporates.

I made enough to still have an ok bank account that I've been partly living off of for 4 years now (the rest is picked up by my wife and I'm incredibly grateful to her for it) ---- but I just can't work anymore. I pick up a little money here and there from small online projects, but the idea of a full 8-10 hour a day job still frightens me ... nor is it appealing in any way at all.

Anyways, I'm not posting this to turn you off on the whole college thing ... I just had the opposite experience in life and I ended up burnt out 'cuz of it and your post inspired me to share mine because of how opposite it was. For me, my greatest regret in life is fast-tracking to the point of complete burn out so early.
 
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