dwndrgn

What is the biggest regret/mistake/bad choice you ever made?

Mine haunts me to this day...I was offered an 18 month position at EuroDisney and I refused it. At the time I rationalized that I didn't like Disney's strict regulations regarding hair/dress/makeup etc. and that I would have to live with two strangers in a tiny apartment for 18 months without any friends or family available for a pittance of a salary (I was and still am painfully shy). I allowed my boyfriend at the time to talk me out of going.

The things I could have learned, done...the people and connections I could have made...sigh. What a waste!

Anyone want to share theirs?

scifimoth

Getting married....I should have gone with my insincts and stayed a single gal...now I am divorced and trying to put my life back together.
Sigh....

Twelve

If my biggest mistake in life = the choice that has given me the most pain, then it was going out with a girl named Robin back in 1996....when I KNEW that I shouldn't have! I even had a chance to let her go before she did harm...but she talked me out of it. And boy, did she HURT me with a pain I've never thought could exist!!

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brian

I have no real regrets, I guess. Certainly, I've done some things that will never look good. Heck I spent my early twenties as a doped up cheating drunk. Yuk. A regret? No, a natural part of my progress through life - and one I took myself from and learned greatly from. Would I do it again? Definitely not. But I have learned a lot walking in the light, so to speak, precisely because I once spent so long with my head in the mud.

Or something like that.

At the moment my worst regret is if I don't spend my day constructively.

An8el

Don't have any regarding people...but there was one choice. I had a scholarship and a monthly stipend to go to art school that was insurance from my parents dying before I was 18. That's what I chose, but sometimes I regret it.

After the first two years of college, a favorite Chinese professor offered to take me to Taiwan. (This was 1971; at that time no tourists were allowed in China.) I would have learned more writing & speaking Chinese privately from him. He had been already teaching me 100 characters a week, which I later learned was an unbelievably fast rate. Obviously, he was an incredible teacher, because he found out I could learn the words to songs. So he made stories out of the related character pictographs. Because I was an artist, I already knew how to use a brush, so writing Chinese was simple for me. He could afford to pay for the air ticket because he could set me up teaching English at the university where he was a scholar.

I understand how there were lots of reasons why I didn't go, not just the scholarship. I really turned it down because I didn't have anybody to keep my stuff that I would have left behind, and I would have been leaving behind my parent's estate. It was just too big of a leap to surrender everything and go halfway around the world while I was still feeling like an orphan. I tried to contact him two years later, but I couldn't locate him; he'd gone back to Taiwan as he had promised and the only address I had did not work.

Amidala

I have lots of little ones but no real big ones....yet!

I, Brian

Lacking the maturity and confidence I have now, that I needed when younger...

KuWaiTi

Princess Ivy

i don't regret the past. i've made mistakes, but learned from them. they are part of me and my present

Winters_Sorrow

Oh, I'm sure my biggest ones are still ahead of me! :biggrin: