Regrets?

[Beastie]

Are there any major things you regret doing (or not doing) in your life?

I'm only asking because I'm considering leaving work and going back to university to get a degree so that I can teach primary school children.
The whole thing (if I can even afford it!!) will take about 4 years to complete and during that time I've also got to work so I can pay my half of our mortgage (£500 and month [$850?]).

Its going to be so difficult it scares me.

Anyway - my regret is that I didn't do it 10 years ago when I left school.

[soulsyfn]

I regret "selling out" to the system. My passion is for art, but it is so difficult to pay the bills when you only do that. So I got a job in Marketing Communications, which is fun in some aspects. But it does still stifle my creativity.

All I can say is that if you want something you have to dedicate yourself to it and do not let yourself fail.

Good Luck!

[GroundHog]

I regret going to college at all.
Even though I do appreciate them trying to help me (for a humongous sum of money)
But Instead of listening to my instinct and trying to find out about the comics biz, I thought they were going to get into it at college.

I regret the fact that somewhere I picked up my own curriculum, and can't seem to find a system to work it with, as well as the fact that Everyday life goes against the flow of my system. Thus making it hard for me to put everything together.

[Mike]

I regret moving around last year. Lot of drainage on the ol' checking account. I also regret the fact that I'm a procrastinator. Oh, I also regret borrowing money anytime I have to, because I don't like owing people money.

[xadrian]

Originally posted by soulsyfn
I regret "selling out" to the system. My passion is for art, but it is so difficult to pay the bills when you only do that.

Amen brother/sister!!

I also regret not taking chances on furthering myself as a comic artist and instead falling into the corporate world. I don't like that world and I'm really not qualified to be here. I regret letting it get so far that there's no way I can get out without irrevocably changing my family's life. Let it be said though that I don't regret anything about my family, in anyway. It's not their fault I'm lazy and sheep-like.

I also regret that weekend in Vegas where I met Lola...

[Awesome B. Rockinsocks]

I have very few regrets at all. There are many things I could have made better descisions over but it was always the best I could do at the time. The only regrets I have are about the things in which I had no power over-that just happened. As long as your alive, life is wide open to start things over again. I know that I probably would have be in a better place now if I had gone about things differently way back when, but I will still get to where I belong, it will just take a little longer.

[legend of 8]

What do I regret? Many things.

I regret being blind. For many years of my life, my eyes were closed to the world. At age 14, I finally learned that fine line of what was acceptable and what wasn't. Many other things as well.... things that would have made my life a HELL of a lot better. Like learning to draw at a younger age.

In other words, way too many things to mention. I can live my life, but, I wonder just how much better it could have been, WOULD have been, had I just thought things through.

Then maybe, just maybe, I would have seen my parent's divorce coming from a long ways away......

[E]

I'm too young to have any perspective. Sorry, I'm only eighteen.

[Carter]

I regret buying my car. It eats all my dough.

I regret working. Homeless looks like it could be fun sometimes.

I regret not going to the doctor two years ago.

I regret Palmer. And Sandra. And Thu. Sometimes Dien. And that fact that Jane told Dien about Sandra.

I regret the summer. Summer sucks, man.

I regret my Gamecube. I should have got a PS2.

--Carter--

[E]

Hey, man, Gamecube is great. Animal Crossing.

[Ragelion]

Taking a 5 yr or so hiatis right after I graduated college and not doing art...now I am 5 yr behind where I want to be.

[GroundHog]

Originally posted by Legend of 8
In other words, way too many things to mention. I can live my life, but, I wonder just how much better it could have been, WOULD have been, had I just thought things through.

Ditto. It's amazing how, when growing up, there are so many things which we do not get introduced/ exposed to so we go on ignorant until that specific thing comes up.
When it does, some people do the right thing, some people do the wrong.
I usually did the wrong.
Nowadays I make no moves or comments or decisions without full understanding of the underlying factors, as much as possible. My neutrality in some areas piss people off.

[bushiboy]

I regret not going to college. Seems like a perfectly acceptable waste of my time and money.

I regret losing a couple loves, and having ever loved most of them to begin with.

I regret eating the last of the Raisin Bran at 8pm, cause now it's 11:30 and I'd really like a bowl. Considering suicide over that one.

I regret that time when I rebelled against my father, and led an army of my brothers against the hallowed gates of my father's kingdom, finaly being cast down into the dark for eternity to sceme and corrupt and await the end of the universe. Looking back, it was a bad idea.

[TheFightingFoetus]

While I could say that there are things I regret, were it not for those mistakes, I'd never learn much. And I've learned a lot... :)

[Inkthinker]

I'm still young enough to not regret too much... I wish I had traveled more before now, but there's still time... of course, I've been saying that for a few years...

[Luke]

im only 14 so i dont have too many regrets, once there was this girl i personally consider 10/10 she was fine, i started a great friendship with her, out of no where she kissed me, an i just frose i didnt reply to her allweekend just yes's an nos, she soon found somebody else an now i kick myself everytime i see her with him!

[whibbage]

I regret nothing. My mistakes have made me who I am today. Unless you never learn from them, life can only get better.

[Beastie]

Originally posted by Luke
im only 14 so i dont have too many regrets, once there was this girl i personally consider 10/10 she was fine, i started a great friendship with her, out of no where she kissed me, an i just frose i didnt reply to her allweekend just yes's an nos, she soon found somebody else an now i kick myself everytime i see her with him!

That must have happened to everyone at some point.
I know it certainly happened to me.

Don't let it happen again, mate.

10/10's don't come along that often.................. :D

[Vendetta]

I was in love back in highschool. Well... she went away to collage while I was still in Highschool and after a year, broke up with me. That is not the regret. The regret is that I never let myself recover from the hurt. I wallowed in self pity and depression for the last decade. I basically gave up and coasted through life barely getting by and not caring about anything. Its only been in this last year or so that I have finally realized that I have some worth and am trying to make something of myself. Old habits are hard to quelsh though and it is still hard to actually believe in myself. But, the good news is, I am leaps and bounds ahead of who I "was"

So, I regret wasting ten+ years of my life for absolutely nothing. (Hell... I didnt even do drugs or get drunk... I could have at least done those things!!!)

[anim82000]

I regret dropping out of highschool halfway through the 10th grade, and becomming a pot-head.

No, wait. No I don't.


I regret not shopping around more before I chose an art college. The one I went to sucked, but I did meet some pretty kick-ass people there.