What's your biggest regret?

[Shikarnov]

Greetings all,

As the title asks, what's your biggest regret?

Mine is having screwed up a budding relationship I had with a woman several years ago. We kept in touch sporadically since then. She stayed single. I moved on -- for the most part. Nowadays we don't talk at all, but she's still on my mind. I feel like Walter Mitty, always lost in my thoughts, while my wife struggles to keep me grounded in reality.

So what's your sad story?

ZS

 

[JuanBolio]

Not killing my mortal enemies when I had the chance.

 

[DiSiLLUSiON]

Regrets are unproductive feelings. I rather look at what I don't like and how I can change that.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I also screwed up a relationship I'd had. The problem was, we had a fight and I thought that meant she wanted to break up with me. So I broke up with her first. Biiiiig mistake...

Another regret is that I didn't get into baseball earlier. I've only been a huge fan of the sport for a couple of years now. I wish I could have gotten into it when I was a kid.

 

[Shikarnov]

Regrets are unproductive feelings. I rather look at what I don't like and how I can change that.

I agree that it's not productive, but I haven't any points on my ears to help rid myself of them.

 

[Holdfast]

I once passed up buying a pair of forest-green suede shoes... went back to the shop the next day, already sold... sigh.

 

[Finn]

^poor guy


2009 has been so magical for me that it made my old regrets moot If i did one single thing differently, 2009 would look very different for me.

 

[An Officer]

I don't bother with regret. It's basement level thinking.

 

[Shazam!]

I once passed up buying a pair of forest-green suede shoes... went back to the shop the next day, already sold... sigh.

: (

 

[zephramc]

TNZ (It's like a monkey on my back)...
Reading any of TEH BABA's posts...

 

[miraclefan]

I sold off a VERY near complete ''Modern age'' Flash & Green Lantern comic run back in 01. Biigg mistake.

 

[Brent]

Not being outgoing and meeting a lot of friends and getting involved in activities at school and church during my high school years.

 

[Pingfah]

Mine is having screwed up a budding relationship I had with a woman several years ago. We kept in touch sporadically since then. She stayed single. I moved on -- for the most part. Nowadays we don't talk at all, but she's still on my mind. I feel like Walter Mitty, always lost in my thoughts, while my wife struggles to keep me grounded in reality.

So what's your sad story?

That's not that sad, that's more like self indulgent and disrespectful.

 

[Plecostomus]

My biggest regret? Not following through on that big lawsuit. I could have paid off my debts that much quicker.

 

[Mr. B]

I'm young so my biggest isn't that big. I had a fierce attraction to the same girl all through high school and couldn't bring myself to say anything until graduation... wasn't really news to her by then. She moved away a couple months later but I made a point to stay in touch and we have since become good friends. Realistically speaking, the best possible outcome occurred but I still hated myself for failing to express my feelings. I haven't made the same mistake since.

 

[Goji]

I came into this thread expecting to think of something major I regret, but... I can't, not really. Meh.

 

[Newski]

Try not to have regrets.... Just shrug em off and keep going.

But the first thing that comes to mind is a short film I recently wrote and directed, that was just.... Terrible..... How terrible? Well, the saving grace was I got to see the lead actress in her underwear. Only good thing about it.

 

[Colonel Green]

At the age of 24 I had a chance to nail the 18 yr old capt. of the university rowing team, but passed because I thought she was too drunk, only to find out the next day that she'd only had three drinks and was stammering because she was into me

THOSE ATHLETIC THIGHS!!!!!!

 

[Kestra]

There are three distinct possibilities here:

Not seeking treatment for my depression earlier.

Not confronting a family member more strongly about a problem when it was first beginning.

Or ...

Coming back to a relationship because leaving him hurt him.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Wasting 3 minutes of my life reading a thread on TrekBBS about regrets.