Regrets

[Manc]

We all have them. I know I certainly regret dropping out of college and missing out on the university experience.

[randomlegend]

I really regret letting my sports fall by the wayside at sixth form. Also not looking to try and play at a better standard earlier.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm a bit of a determinist so I don't have many. Maths A level instead of economics might have been a shout though. Economics is a fake subject. Maths is real and I could have acquired important nerd skills which I now don't have.

[Giggles]

Jesus if I was to start listing mine I'd overload the server.

[Henry]

I probably regret not doing a bit more work at uni and perhaps pushing on for post-graduate stuff and maybe a doctrorate. I started finding IT a bit boring, I suppose.
Then again, had I done something else I'd probably be regretting not going into it for the money.

[Spammer]

I don't know, really. I'm happy enough at the moment so don't really regret anything. A lot of things I've done which I would do differently if I could do it all again, but it took those things happening for me to learn from them, so it's not like they're a complete waste.

[Reg]

I regret not taking up another sport (for a long while) when I quit football at 14.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Carrying on with my sport into adulthood is by far the best thing I've ever done. If anyone here has the choice, DO NOT give up for any reason. Especially a team sport.

[Reg]

Similarly, getting into tennis properly in adulthood is one of the best things I've done.

[Sam]

Becoming an Accountant.

Most fucking stupid thing I've ever done, only two more years to go though.

[Lewis]

I don't really have any. I could probably have stopped being [as] fat a bit earlier, but I don't go in for the making the effort at school/university stuff. I never had the temperament to have done so. It wasn't necessarily a work-ethic thing with me, but simply doing what I was told. Yet at the same time I like to think that my awkwardness has been beneficial in the long run as far as education goes.

[Shindig]

Not finishing my computing degree. Maybe, Dunno what I'd have done with it. And I might still have had the three years of dole after it.

Come to think of it, getting off dole sooner seems like a massive one.

[Lee]

I used to really regret not going into academia but I'm not so bothered now. Same as I used to regret not having a go at getting into an Oxbridge unis when I was a fair bit younger but even if I had got in I doubt I'd have put in the effort necessary to thrive. Life's pretty good and it's possible it wouldn't be had I done those things, so I'm winning, on balance.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Oxbridge sounds ghastly to me. I refused to apply in sixth form, though I highly doubt I'd have got in anyway, and the school threw a wobbly and said I was making a terrible mistake. That was quite funny, increasingly so with time actually.

[Lee]

Here's another thing, although not really a regret as I never considered it at the time; if I had my time again I'd train to be a doctor.

[Foe]

In hind sight, thinking moving to Shetland would "be alright" was an error.

I still have some seethe that I went and let it get to me as much as it did.

[Baz]

I regret getting banned off The Dugout.

[Spoonsky]

I don't have a lot of regrets (I try to follow this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwG_qR6XmDQ) as much as I can). I do perhaps regret not asking various girls out as a kid as I might be less useless at that than I am now. I somewhat regret how much time I spent writing shit novels that never went anywhere (100,000 words in 2013), but on the other hand at least I gave it a proper go and realized it wasn't for me. I regret taking chemistry last year, fuck that.

I'd say my ambition tends to match or exceed my actual ability (hence the delusional novels), so most of my regrets will be about things being too difficult (chemistry, or possibly Columbia if I'm accepted) rather than not having tried (like if I hadn't applied to Columbia in the first place).

[TG09]

I regret dropping out of rugby for a few years, if I stayed I would be played for country and who knows how good I could of been. Probably would of played in this WC and we would of done a better job.haha

[TG09]

I regret getting banned off The Dugout.

No you don't.

[ItalAussie]

I don't think I have any regrets at the moment. I assumed that I would have, but I'm pretty alright with how stuff is turning out.

Ask me again in three years, because if my career doesn't pan out, I'll have some regrets to report.

[Luca]

I should have probably done something more concrete in my undergraduate (maths, computer science, engineering) and then faffed about with a business degree later, but I certainly don't regret it.

[McAvennie]

I also regret studying science rather than law.

[Kikó]

I had a few regrets of not trying harder in school and that but I made a really good choice to head to the States and it's sorted my life out a bit. At the moment, I can't think of any regrets on life choices, I'm doing well. Long may it continue.

[Benny]

I regret sticking with my ex thinking it would work out in the end, in hindsight I knew it was going to be over in the coming years but I just really loved her family and the idea of what our marriage would have been like. I feel my life would be a lot different now if we'd broken up while she was at Uni rather than a couple of years after that.

Other than that I don't really have any regrets, I had a great time with my skating that I don't really mind not playing so much football when I was younger, I guess I wish I'd 'gone' for more things in my youth rather than caring what people would have said/thought of me.

[leedsrevolution]

Drugs.

Wether that's starting taking them or stopping, it's probably too early to say.

[Toby]

I had the sense to take a year out working between school and university, but I should have used that time to think about what I wanted to do rather than applying for deferred entry at the same time all my classmates did. I'd been put off Physics and other science-y stuff by a crap Maths teacher, but it was still the subject I excelled most in and most importantly enjoyed more than any other. Now I've forgotten basically everything.


In hind sight, thinking moving to Shetland would "be alright" was an error.


You clearly never thought it would "be alright" though. You told yourself you were going to hate it from day one.

[simon]

I regret being an overweight mess for the past three years.

I don't regret much life decision wise. I'm 24 and have experienced quite a lot of stuff with regards to my career. I've made a lot of mistakes but I'd like to think they'll help me out more in the long run than if I'd have taken the conventional routes with stuff.

[phonics]

I wish I'd started doing drugs at 17 not 15. Think it would have made a massive difference.

[Sam]

I wish I'd started doing drugs at 17 not 15. Think it would have made a massive difference.

How so?

I regret having that first pill, highs that'll never be reached again.

[Manc]

I regret sticking with my ex thinking it would work out in the end, in hindsight I knew it was going to be over in the coming years but I just really loved her family and the idea of what our marriage would have been like.

What happened, Benny? I ask as I'm doubting my relationship more often than I probably should be 2 years in.

[Benny]

What happened, Benny? I ask as I'm doubting my relationship more often than I probably should be 2 years in.

Meh, rather not go into too much detail but basically we were together since 16/17 and during Uni I knew we weren't meant to be but I was too 'attached' to the idea we should be together that I stuck through with it even though deep down I knew it wasn't going to work. I don't know how old you are, but I was around 22 when I began to really know it wasn't happening. It's surprising how quick you get over someone, but it's pretty tough to take that initial jump and call it quits.

[John]

I regret not putting more thought into what I was doing at uni at coming out of it with a concrete career path. Bouncing around between six month contracts is lovely for now, but it'll get tiresome before long.

[Magic]

I regret a lot of things. It's turned out okay, though, I guess.

I regret constantly ditching good things for the grass is greener. These include my best mate from primary. I pretty much had a 'better' group of friends each year through school which saw a massive decline in my work. I'd slap myself if I could go back in time.

I did this with my first proper girlfriend too, she was awesome but I arrogantly and stupidly thought I could do better and actually told her this. She's a bundle of fun, really clever and is a biology (or chemistry?) teacher in a fancy school in Edinburgh now.

I regret moving in with my dad when I was 14 after being convinced my mum was poison and couldn't look after me, I later found out it was so he could stop paying her CSA money.

I regret waiting for 'the one' and wish I'd have experienced the world a bit more (basically threesomes and fisting?). I was too nice.

I don't really have any regrets from later life, I just absolutely loathe my teens and later pre-teens. Not at the time but looking back I fucking hate it. Even though I'm a cunt now and everyone thinks I'm a loser I am pretty happy and don't regret any of my decisions. Some of them have been pretty good, actually.

[Spammer]

Giving or receiving fisting? Grass is greener thing maybe. Not everyone gets threesomes even if they look for them.

I was quite similar in that respect. I'd never been with someone I didn't know and love until I broke up with Mrs Hammer in January. It's been fun exploring but I'm ready for a proper relationship again now.

[Magic]

Giving, I think. I was just joking, guess I wish I'd explored the world more before I settled down. If that was at the expense of what I have now though then I'm glad I didn't.

[Spammer]

What did you want to explore?

I found it a bit scary to think that the lass I was with would be the only person I'd ever be with, and if there's anything she didn't want to I would never do it. Mostly the latter I was worried about really, as I think I could be happy enough being with one person.

[Magic]

Just normal sex, not having my shitty adult sized nappy changed or hardvore.

[Spoonsky]

I wish I'd started doing drugs at 17 not 15. Think it would have made a massive difference.

I definitely don't regret waiting till I was seventeen (not that I've done many drugs at all in my life). The people I know who started at 15 or so, it's still a much bigger part of their lives than for people who waited a couple of years.

[Shindig]

Actually, not making a move on a lass at work is probably up there. She was into me and then someone said, "High maintenance." and she'd also buggered off with another lad real sharpish.