What Is Your Biggest Regret?

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So GTPlanet, what is your biggest regret at the moment?

Mine would be I didn't ask one girl out when she was into me, and now it's too late.
 
My biggest all time regret, not that I make a habit of regretting things, would have to be giving up playing football.

When I was around 12-13 I was showing promise as a quality full back and was between deciding whether to go to WHU's youth academy or join youth training at Orient in the next year as both teams had sent scouts to watch my games and had offered position. (Millwall had an ask as well but my father being my training coach and a die hard Hammer told the guy where to stick it.)

Thing was, this was the time when I was starting to party, getting a grip with alcohol and starting to get in with the girls. The pressure from training 3 times a week and playing all weekend was enough to make me stressed, and that was only for my local boys team.

I loved playing football and had been doing so all my life, I just never really wanted a career doing it, which I had the potential to do. Most boys would give their left nut to have the opportunities that I passed on but I felt that, at the time, it wasn't going to provide happiness in my life in the long run.

I look back now and wonder what my world would be like now if I'd had taken these chances, and the conclusion I come to every time? Most likely a lot richer but definitely not as happy as I am now.

It's a regret in the sense that my friends and family, although respecting my decisions, though I was foolish for wasting my talents and my opportunities. I gave up football even as a hobby at around 16 and haven't been interested since.

I found something better in its stead; alcoholism, woman, 9 - 5 and GT. I'm happy with my life, very happy, but still from time to time wonder 'what if'.
 
Well I could be in med school right now. So my regret is not changing schools and instead just "taking it" back in middle and high school. I was totally uninterested and my GPA suffered. My guidance counselor and college adviser-person got new jobs so they pretty much abandoned me and a hundred other kids. I never applied to any universities or to any scholarships while in HS. I was afraid I'd get rejected anyway.

But I started college and it was what I thought HS should've been. Feels good to have a GPA worthy of high honors. Wish I would've had one all along doing something I actually cared about.
 
I should have shot Famine when I was in the room with Osama Bin Laden and Hitler with two bullets.
 
crispychicken49
So GTPlanet, what is your biggest regret at the moment?

Mine would be I didn't ask one girl out when she was into me, and now it's too late.

Maybe you should change your signature.

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Not sure I have a biggest regret. I wish I would have done better in school or put more of an effort towards college, but it's not something I truly regret. I guess I really regret not really letting my folks know how much I appreciated what they did & put up with raising me.
 
My biggest regret would probably have to be that I didn't better myself when I should've or when I had the chance to. I'm not a bad person, but I feel like I could've handled situations and things in life, differently. Sometimes I blame others on the outcome, but I know it's me. :indiff:
 
My biggest regret would be to not show how much I love and care for those around me, specially my siblings and parents. Now that I'm in college and so far away from everything, It always bugs me that I just could've argued less with my parents, and make them worry less about what I do.
 
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My greatest regret would be not taking the offer to sit in the co-pilots' seat of an airborne Twin Otter. Looking back at that, I wish I had done it once :(
 
My biggest regret is putting iv instead of iv'e and famine saw it :/ that was a fateful day that i will always regret :D
 
I try to not have any regrets, otherwise you spend your life looking backwards, rather than looking forward and making the most of your life.
 
Not finishing yr11 or 12 at school and not making the most of playing Rugby for the state team....
 
crispychicken49
Mine would be I didn't ask one girl out when she was into me, and now it's too late.

She doesn't need to like you, for you to be together...MUAHAHAHA! >:-)
 
Many, many things. Things I could've done, should've done, but didn't. But alas, that is in the past and I can't dwell on it. I just hope that in the future I'll have the chance to correct the mistakes I made in the past, and I'll do my best to be the best person I am capable of being.
 
Too many regrets... my biggest regret though is not standing up for myself and being ashamed of being different... now it's too late and everyone just uses me. pah.
 
I try to not have any regrets, otherwise you spend your life looking backwards, rather than looking forward and making the most of your life.

Well it depends on individual's character whether we try not to regret past things or seriously be concerned about them later - and how we spend time before important moments, try their bests not to leave repentances or just drag their leisure - an optimistic person is likely to do things without much deliberation in advance when they're loose from everything stressful - but it can sometimes be a flaw for them as opposed to those with careful consideration.

But for sure, looking backwards is not a good thing for enjoying life - industrious persons especially tend to be greatly disappointed at their failures, should be given some time for their refreshment.
 
Depressing, sorry.
->Not telling a girl that broke up with me that I was in love with her. She died in a car accident a few months later.<-
 
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@HumanDestroyah:
I'm really sorry, that must have really hurt, especially since you still loved her :(

@ECGadget:
I have exactly the same regret, I guess it doesn't help that I am extremely shy :P
 
My biggest regret.

I could easily make this last pages but I'll make it quick.

Gave up football... Played for my local club through all junior categories U12, U14 & U16. Then progressed to seniors. We had 3rds, 2nds and 1st team. I made my debut for first team when I was 16. It's a high standard as they play in premier amateur league. Got scouted by Everton and Linfield. Got selected for milk cup trials but I couldn't attend on the dates :ouch: Won 5 BCSS (Bobby Charlton Soccer School) that was in my area. Basically there is skill tests at end which you get marked on. The school was for under 16 back then. The first BCSS I attended was in 2000 when I was 12. It was at a BCSS were David Beckham was first noticed.

During the year I made my first team debut I went to play golf with a mate. I'd never played before and never followed it. There must of been something in the air because that day I caught a bug.. a golf bug! I got addicted with it and was determined to get better every time I played. The end of the football season was approaching. It had been a long hard season. I couldn't wait to have more time to play golf with no training or school. Over that summer I got my first hcp and lowered it by 5 shots. Then comes the dreaded phonecall for preseason. I ddn't want to go back, i was enjoying golf so much. I ignored the first call.. next day another call and I said I've got something on that evening. That happened for maybe 2 weeks then I was asked have you signed for someone else.. I then just told truth. I wasn't coming back, I'm a golfer now.

This didn't go down well with them or my dad. My dad went to every match I played, me and him outside every night kicking a ball, making me I use my weaker foot etc He bought me new adidas predators every season, sometimes 2 pair at over £100 a touch. He put alot into my football.

I now look back and think what was I thinking. I, giving the right opportunity could have made a living out of playing football. It burns me up to think I've let my parents but especially my dad down. My dad was never a sporty type nor anyone else in family.. so was I giving a gift and well and truly fudged it up? I should also add I don't even follow football anymore.. it annoys me when I watch.

Another big regret of mine was GT Academy this year. Obv I was super fit back when I played football but when I gave up I never done any fitness work etc. Fitness probably cost me a place at GT Academy final at Sliverstone.

:sick:
 
Know how you feel on that fitness thing... It was the main thing that lost be captaincy of my college basketball team...

Man there are a lot of different regrets here...
 
Not committing to the most fantastic woman I've have met, or will probably ever meet, when I had the chance - because of my own shortcomings :rolleyes:
 
No regrets. I'm grateful for my life and always try to learn from poor decisions and mistakes. Everything is a learning experience. 👍
 
No regrets. I'm grateful for my life and always try to learn from poor decisions and mistakes. Everything is a learning experience. 👍

This is a good way to look at it, but you sometimes have that thing you remember and think that you should have done differently. The correct thing to do at this moment is to learn from it and apply it to future occasions. The problem is, sometimes there is no future occasion
 
Not paying attention and buying an H67 mobo for an Intel 2500k CPU. I've been looking forward to this rig for over 2 years.
 
I watched someone drop a $20 or $100 bill in Costco and did nothing; either pocketing it or returning it to the owner.
 
So GTPlanet, what is your biggest regret at the moment?

Mine would be I didn't ask one girl out when she was into me, and now it's too late.

Same here.

It actually went further...man 'dis tough now...but when I was 13 there was this one girl calling me a few times "to come over" to "hang out", and maaaaaaaaaaaaaan I never had the balls to "do it". I freaki'n hate myself for that because I could have had her so many many times.:indiff:

(Yes I am talking about having some amazing sex with her, she wasn't a virgin since she was 11, she was damned sexy.)
 
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No regrets. I'm grateful for my life and always try to learn from poor decisions and mistakes. Everything is a learning experience. 👍

This is my philosophy exactly. I do not regret anything in my life that I've done or didn't do. I'm very happy with my life right now and anything I would've done differently in the past may have changed were I ended up today so I just chalk it all up to one big learning experience and look to what the future brings.
 

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