Regrets, I've had a few!

eleanora_

I regret not taking some time out after I completed my law degree. Looking back, I knew I didn't really want to go into law, but I went straight from uni into the Legal Practice Course anyway. The result was that I flunked out of it nine months later! I could have saved a lot of stress and money if I'd taken time to work out what I really wanted to do with myself, instead of panicking that I needed to have it all figured out at the advanced age of twenty-two.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I wish I'd asked for help as a teenager from the staff at college - I really, really wanted to go to University, but not only did my mother forbid it, my boyfriend put lots of pressure on me to not do it. As I didn't have the money to submit an application, much less travel and she had already said she wouldn't fill in any forms that would help me get a grant or give me permission (no, I didn't realise that I could just go ahead and do it anyway), I gave up on the idea.


Had I told somebody at college, I'm now pretty certain they would have helped to a) get me accommodation away from the abusive old witch and b) get me funding to stay at college and apply to university.


Following that, I made some spectacularly poor choices, mainly because I couldn't see any way out of the situation I was trapped in.




So yes, I deeply regret not asking for help.

kittendothroar

I don't have many regrets, I like to think that some of the albeit bad decisions have taught me what I do and don't want in life.

Though I do regret not putting more swear words in a final text to the Ex-MIL's wife who tried to ruin my life and taught me never to really trust anyone ever again.

I do wish I had spent more time with my grandparents before they passed on, there are so many unanswered questions that I never thought to ask. I guess I will have to ask them when I meet my maker! I regret putting work first and flying away on business the day one of my nan's passed away, I wish I had been there for my mum but as a naive 20 year old, slightly in shock and about to board a plane for the first time on my own at 6am I guess my head wasn't in the right place.

FatVonD

I regret not taking seriously a headhunting offer from a well known advertising agency because I was young and naive. The account execs took me out to lunch and laughed when I said what I earned and said they'd double it and I thought they were taking the pish

FatVonD

I regret selling the flat I owned outright and going back to work. If I had my life again I'd have stayed there and been a stay at home mum for longer.

Loolah

not leaving my first husband sooner

not seeing my gran before she was died as said hub said i was making a fuss and she would be ok and wouldnt give me car

regret not being stronger in above

not going to uni
leaving home after a row

having a breakdown before finaly accepting i could not cure my sons cannabis addiction