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[quote=Anonymous]Yes. It doesn't keep me up at night, by any stretch. But  there are so many little things i would have done differently.  Looking back, I am embarrassed by how seriously I took some things, like I couldn't freaking calm down!

Sometimes I'll get myself really worked up about it. Like this: When I was a senior, I was in a tailspin of anxiety, despite being a very high achiever. But I was so afraid of taking Physics because the teacher was horrendous/scary/unreasonable that I decided to take two other sciences instead. Then when I applied to college, I didn't get into my top 3 favorite schools and felt like such a failure. I went to a decent school and eventually went to a decent  grad school (even got a PhD) and met my husband during that time. But he has been disappointing me a lot lately with his lack of ambition (ironic, right?) and I have been unhappy in my marriage at times, sometimes even regretting marrying him. And in my mind, I will go all the way back to high school and wish that I took that stupid Physics class, gotten into a better college, different grad school, and, well, maybe I would be in a completely different place right now. I know it's stupid to beat myself up about a decision I made as a teenager, but i can't help but be sad that I just didn't know what I was doing. I really didn't *get* how important that class was. And my 16 year-old mind was never going to listen to anybody telling me otherwise.

Sigh. I know it sounds stupid. Sorry. But thanks for the vent.[/quote]

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