Missed Opportunities
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I have regrets from the past and the future. I can actually predict what I'll miss out on, and I know I won't act on them.
From the past: I didn't visit my grandma when she was dying in the hospital. I never got to tell her that I loved her before she died. Lesson learned - don't be afraid to say your final goodbyes. Someone isn't going to stick around just because you don't say goodbye.
From the future: I don't plan on going to college. I'll be taking some online courses in gaming design, but I'm not going to go to an actual college. I feel like I'm wasting my entire life learning instead of doing. Do you know we spend at least a fifth of our life in school? Another reason is financial. My family is far from rich, and I really don't want a huge debt hanging over my head for the first few years of my working career. And I want to start making money. Having to ask my parents for money is really starting to bother me.
From both: I have stage fright. My voice is actually very good when I don't have a cold (even though that's about 50% of the time), but I dropped out of chorus and I won't sing in front of most people. I weigh around 300 pounds, most of it being from constant allergy problems (caused by allergies, but I haven't been doing a good job trying to get it back down, either), so I'm not very confident in most things. The strange thing is that I see myself as someone completely different when I'm doing stuff, and I only see myself for what I am when I'm the center of attention.
From the past: I didn't visit my grandma when she was dying in the hospital. I never got to tell her that I loved her before she died. Lesson learned - don't be afraid to say your final goodbyes. Someone isn't going to stick around just because you don't say goodbye.
From the future: I don't plan on going to college. I'll be taking some online courses in gaming design, but I'm not going to go to an actual college. I feel like I'm wasting my entire life learning instead of doing. Do you know we spend at least a fifth of our life in school? Another reason is financial. My family is far from rich, and I really don't want a huge debt hanging over my head for the first few years of my working career. And I want to start making money. Having to ask my parents for money is really starting to bother me.
From both: I have stage fright. My voice is actually very good when I don't have a cold (even though that's about 50% of the time), but I dropped out of chorus and I won't sing in front of most people. I weigh around 300 pounds, most of it being from constant allergy problems (caused by allergies, but I haven't been doing a good job trying to get it back down, either), so I'm not very confident in most things. The strange thing is that I see myself as someone completely different when I'm doing stuff, and I only see myself for what I am when I'm the center of attention.
I wish I had left my ex years before the final meltdown, that almost lead up to us not being alive. It's strange what kind of insanity you'll allow yourself to drift down into in a relationship.
I think this would be my deepest regret, as the relationship sort of freeze-framed my life from age 18 to age 25 and prevented me from following through with post secondary. =(
But everything in my life is good now so I can't complain too much. =)
I think this would be my deepest regret, as the relationship sort of freeze-framed my life from age 18 to age 25 and prevented me from following through with post secondary. =(
But everything in my life is good now so I can't complain too much. =)
I should spent my life in a more exciting way when I was in the U.S. 
I used to be an exchange student there and now I think I didn't talk to enough people or didn't talk enough to people I know. Now they're like far far away and I barely talk to them anymore because of time different and stuffs.
Yeah we have facebooks but I don't usually use facebook that often.
I used to be an exchange student there and now I think I didn't talk to enough people or didn't talk enough to people I know. Now they're like far far away and I barely talk to them anymore because of time different and stuffs.Yeah we have facebooks but I don't usually use facebook that often.
Dissonance
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I've blown away the first two years of my university career. While they were both for different reasons, one being legit and one being fucking gay, that's still money and time just gone. I'm still playing catchup and at times I wish I had never done it, but then later I often realize I probably wouldn't be as steeled to the world as I am now if I had stayed on the straight and narrow.
It's great to want to change the mistakes you've made but if you could go back in time and make every bad mistake right you'd probably find your new-future self to be a dull and boring and NAIVE person.
ALSO VEN YOU HAVE A HUSBAND WHAT what does this mean for our sex D:
well i guess he can join in :3
It's great to want to change the mistakes you've made but if you could go back in time and make every bad mistake right you'd probably find your new-future self to be a dull and boring and NAIVE person.
ALSO VEN YOU HAVE A HUSBAND WHAT what does this mean for our sex D:
well i guess he can join in :3
Aaaaaaaaand do you think you're better than me or somethin', punk? I may be bad at life... but that... uh... well, it's not necessarily a bad thing, I'm better than you know (because online I'm way different) or at least show you know... I'm g--nah, that's another discussion. But the real point is that, well, the only life-changing-gotten-close-to-thing wasn't a choice (life hath given me no grand choices), it was a random luck-type-thing. (I found an envelope on the sidewalk one day with $1732 or something like that written on it, but it was empty save for a worthless picture)Zelfouz":9g07ok6c said:
dadevvtsvre
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Well, my life hasn't been as long as any of you guys, ('cept Rey_J) but I kind of wish I would've done corn detasseling last summer.
mega_man_aXe
Member
I've had so many opportunities to get my music in a game or low-budget film. I regret it now because I didn't take action. Self-confidence will get you places, eventually. Just make sure you're not to cocky.
DaithioDell
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"Those who dwell on events past are those who would go back and alter how they responded to what happened, because they allowed that situation to change the course of their lives. Those who take a moment to breathe and reflect, absorb the occassion and apply lessons learned in whatever fashion they wish. Truly, we are gifted with myriad opportunity to either create ourselves from our experiences, or to be marred and knocked off track by them."
-Me.
-Me.