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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll be blunt, in my younger days I did things that I’m not proud of. I slept around, drank too much, acted irresponsible which could have been dangerous for me- thank goodness nothing bad happened! I’mcollege educated, was brought up in  upper middle class family, always have had professional jobs. But, I was kind of wild. Now I’m looking back at my life and am ashamed, embarrassed and so wish that I could do things over! I was such an idiot! I’m not super religious, but enough so that I’ve asked God for forgiveness. But, it’s really bothering me. I use to look back and laugh at some of the stories, now I just cringe!

Anyone else feel this way? And if so, how are you dealing with it? I mean, obviously I can’t redo things. [/quote]

I don't understand why you are wasting time regretting this, unless you did something that seriously or irreparably harmed another person.  This all sounds like run of the mill stuff quite a few young people engage in.   On the flip side, there are tons of people who lead a straight laced life and reach the end of their life regretting that they did not live a little and engage in a little silliness and recklessness when they were young.

Really this sounds like your mind doesn't want you to be happy and for whatever reason you are endlessly ruminating on this stuff that happened decades ago and is irrelevant to your life.[/quote]

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