Top regrets in life

[Anonymous]

I, too, wish I had done a semester abroad. It is one of my biggest regrets. The other one is not trying to go work on the Hill back in the 90s when I wanted to change jobs. It would have been easier to do the policy and lobbying work that i think I would have loved. I like what I do now but my passion is with one particular cause.

[Anonymous]

I think it's hard to have regrets since I'm where I am (and I'm happy) as a result of both the bad and good that happened to me. But I've had some very low moments in my life.

[Anonymous]

I don't regret marrying my husband but staying too long and wasting all of my thirties on him.

[Anonymous]

No regrets really, but lots of mistakes. Learned from them and all is good now.

[Anonymous]

Dropping out of high school my Senior year.

Background:
My home life was hell & my parents never loved me.
I grew up very depressed + suffered severe anxiety because of it.
This affected my studies tremendously - I HATED school, I struggled w/both my studies as well as fitting in.
I was teased horribly amongst my peers and just gave up on caring about ANYthing at all.

Quitting school affected the trajectory of my entire life I feel.
I did eventually complete my credits via a high school correspondence course, then went on to earn an Associate of Science degree from a local community college.
I wanted to transfer to a University but could not pass the math courses necessary to properly transfer out. 😕

I currently work in childcare where the $$ is very low.

I regret not doing well in high school, possibly earning a scholarship then graduating from a four-yr university
If I had, then I could have a decent-paying job by now and could have had better life options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not buying a beach place for about $250,000 when we had the chance in the 90's. They're over $1 M now.

Had you put $50k (the downpayment) into the market and made the monthly payments to yourself since 90's, you could buy two of those beach houses today and have cash left over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not buying bitcoin once upon a time

Never too late. In 10 years you wish you had bought 0.1 of it.
I heard about it first when it was $6k. I finally bought it at $28k.

[Anonymous]

Not much. In my 20s I had a sense of "this may be the only time in my life that I..." and so I lived how I wanted. I still think about the time when I had two amazing job offers: one in Switzerland and one in Rome and I had to pick. I took the job in Switzerland and have no regrets but I still play the Sliding Doors game and think about where I would have ended up if I had gone to Italy. My biggest sorrow is my special needs kid who is difficult in ten million ways but if I hadn't had him I would not have had his brother, who is a joy, so I guess even that I can't regret.

[Anonymous]

My second marriage. I knew it would fail before I even said I do and yet I still did it. I am never making that mistake again.

[Anonymous]

Definitely no regrets that messed up the course of my life, so I am very lucky. Certainly plenty of mistakes but I found a way to recover from them and move on. I grew up in a very loving family who placed great value on good educations and being good people and that set me on a good course.

[Anonymous]

Choosing a college major that set me on a career path I did't like.

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure I was as in love with my husband when I married him 37 years as I am now. I could barely look him in the eyes when we said our vows. He looked straight at me.
I somehow knew though.
I grew into loving him desperately.
not really a regret but trust your gut people.

[Anonymous]

Abortion a couple of months after graduating from college.

[Anonymous]

You all are so sad! Wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not buying bitcoin once upon a time

Same I remember reading about when someone bought a pizza with it, when it was worth maybe a couple dollars. So it was absolutely on my radar, I just thought it was a scam/pet rock.