Hmm... I'm 26, and looking back, I don't really have many regrets. I suppose I regret not being as social as I could've been back in high school, but that's pretty minor really.
Don't give up rockbox! It's never too late to be a doctor - as they say, you can be 45 and something else or you can be 45 and a doctor (well, you might have to insert your age where 45 is). Anyways, my regret is not taking college as seriously in the beginning and finishing my pre-reqs for med. school, although I did clean up my act. Furthermore, I regret not seeing my path sooner so I wouldn't have these next few years ahead of me before I could really begin my journey. Besides that, not too many other regrets...then again, I'm still fairly young.
having a GF all throughout college. not taking school more serious/ not being more active with internships and such.
Getting circumcised when I was 12 for "hygienic purposes" only to learn it was only to discourage masturbation.
This is building off of another thread and may even sound silly, but I regret going to college right out of high school. I wish I'd joined the military and gotten some discipline, and did a little growing up first. Then again, I also regret not going to a big state school just because the smaller, private one gave me money. Most of my regrets revolve around school in one form or fashion, now that I think about it. I also regret reading this post.
"Life is what happens to you while you are busy making plans for it." You notice as you get older how even things you hate go by quickly? Like waiting in line, or dealing with traffic? My philosophy is to engage in activities where the passage of time is a good thing. Basically investments and education. Sock some money away and let time and compund interest make you rich. 4 years seems like a long time to go to school? Think back to something you did 4 years ago. Doesn't it seem like it was just yesterday? Regrets for myself? Girl of course...
Wow, this is a great topic thread. My biggest regret is one that might last forever if I never find a girl that was a perfect match for me in pulling the trigger and putting a ring on her finger and marrying her. I went out with this one girl for 8 1/2 years. She gave me an ultimatum in marrying her in which I wasnt ready since I had just got laid off but she graduated college and was not a US Citizen. I was with her all throughout college and after. We both were young, she was 19 and I was 20 at the time. I regret not making her a priority to have a good relationship with my parents and family and hiding it from my parents and saying we were just friends. She was diagnosed with two serious eye diseases that leads to complete blindness at age 40. I was soooo close to her entire family and now I dont speak or communicate with anyone from her family or her. She ended up marrying her best guy friend that was in our crew for over 8 1/2 years ans we all hung out and partied together 1 month after our official breakup. Im still recovering from this. I made her my number 1 priority all throughout our relationship. I chose her over my family and now she has disappeared on me completely. I made many sacrifices for her like driving to the Northside from Sugar Land for 8 1/2 years bc I love her dearly. No one told me about her marriage and I go online and find out. That hurts like no other. We never made any final decision on having children or not bc of the severity of her eye disease and there is a 50% chance that the child can have the same eye diseases. I wish that we did so this breakup could have been easier to take in. I wish I had taken college more seriously and I probably wouldnt be in this predicament with Careers in me getting laid off 3 jobs in 2 1/2 years after college. 1 was a contract job, but still. I wish I did an internship so I would have known that I hated my chose of concentration in Accounting and Finance and chose something else. Instead of an internship I waited tables bc of the money and the lifestyle I wanted with my X over 8 1/2 years in eating at fancy restaurants, going out, etc. I would have never saw her degrading herself and marrying her best guy friend for her Green Card and not tell me. That is just plain sick. Girls are Ruthless and heartless. Wow. I also regret how I handled this situation when I find out the two of them got married, I went Ron Artest style minus the violence, just all verbal. Things got sooo bad back and forth that I don't think I will ever see or speak to her again in my entire lifetime and that is hard since I was with her for sooo long.
Oh man, unfortunately, I have lots of regrets. I guess my biggest regret was withholding my cancer diagnosis and treatment from my friends and family. I didn't want to hurt any of them by telling them, but in the end, my isolation hurt them more.
