baileyface544:  That's definitely sad. I can read the regret you feel through your words very clearly. I guess as a teacher, your story really strikes home to me.  I'm sorry you never said sorry, but it makes me feel better that you immediately regretted it. Sometimes students say stuff like that and I don't see an ounce of remorse in their faces. In fact, they seem to find it funny and amusing. I don't think they realize that it IS hurtful, because we teachers are human to.  We're not perfect, and we put a LOT on the line to work for our students.  Even the teachers you don't like have probably worked their butts off in what they think is in your best interest. Teachers who actually do their jobs are quite self-less people.


I really, really like this thread.  I'm sure most of us are SO full of regrets and remorse.  The lists could go on and on.  However, I think the most telling regret is the one that comes to mind first.  For that reason, I'm not going to state the regret that jumped to my mind first; it's a bit too personal.

I guess ones of my bigger regrets though involves the lack of closeness to my family.  There were many things that went wrong during my childhood, and at the time, I never would have imagined the sizes of the consequences they incurred.  There is very little I could have done to change things, but I guess I wish I had been more aware.  My family life wasn't terrible, but it would have been nice to at least TRY to keep everyone close.  A kind word here and there could have made a few differences.

I'm 17 and most of my life is regret loll. I can laugh about it now but I know occasionally these things pile up and burst all in a big oil cry.

There are things that I regret constantly, like, everyday, for example I regret not working harder on my You tube "career".

But for things in the past, I regret not coming to terms sooner about how I feel about this girl. In 9th grade I started to like her, but I was nervous about it and I had no idea how to express what I was feeling.

So at the time I decided to be the most annoying piece of garbage I could manage, and she got mad at me a lot of times, Still, my friends started to pick on me saying that I liked her and I obviously denied it every time.

One day the prom was coming up (we had a 9th grade prom yes) and they decided to put the pressure on me to invite her to the prom, because they knew I would break. So after many trials, I just blurted it out one day to her and she said she was going to think about it.

She ended up accepting and we danced. A wasted opportunity because that's all we did.

On the 10th grade, however, I for some reason decided that I didn't like her anymore, so for the whole year I didn't do anything.

Last year on 11th grade I started talking to this other girl who liked games and that was the biggest waste of my time because I should have never fell for this girl because she gave me a heartbreak strong enough to kick me into depression.

Now I'm trying to my darnest to win this girl over, but it's not going to be easy because 1- I don't have much time, college is coming up and when it does I may not see her again; 2- I still don't quite know what I'm doing, I did invite her again to the prom (with a poem!) but she told me to ask again closer to the prom. Luckily I didn't get straight up rejected because I am so afraid of that.

So yeah that's my biggest regret basically.

Honestly the only thing I regret not doing in life is slowing down and admiring the greater things in life. I've a terrible habit of trying to do things way too soon and paying more attention to the smaller things rather than the finer things that life has to offer. This mishap only encourages me to go to college and try new things that have never been done before. Everything else? I regrettably must say I don't regret any other things in life because as individuals they have made mistakes or have yet to make any major mistakes in life.

I have no regrets about things I haven't tried. If things changed and I did things differently, I feel like I wouldn't be living the life I am living and I wouldn't be as awesome as I am. 

I think we as a society live with too much regret and wishing we could change the past instead of making the best of our situations or ultimately bettering ourselves and situations.

Well, the only thing I really regret was allowing my friends and I to grow apart when we did. I mean I understand most childhood friends grow apart. It's just how life is, but there could've been a few more years of quality time we had together, but I was too preoccupied with using drugs and numbing myself to the world to care at the time. I miss all the football and basketball we could've played, and all the late nights we would stay up laughing for hours at each other making stupid comments. I really don't regret all the drug use, I'm a much better person now because of it. Other than that I have realistic expectations of what I was capable of at the time things occurred, and am pretty satisfied with what happened through out my life.

I guess my regret would be that I let my old GBA get out of my sights and be stolen along with every GBA game I had with me. Still makes me very angry to this day that someone would do that.