We all have regrets in life. We wish we'd asked that girl to dance, we wish we'd been nicer, we wish we hadn't told that teacher to go to hell.

So, if you could re-live your life, or just a few specific moments, what would you do different?

For one, there's a few people I need to tell to go fuck themselves. I should probably have applied myself better in school last year. Finally, I wish I had taken that more secure job instead of a different one that I was let go from within six months.

Only one I can really think of is how I should have tried harder my first year of high school.

I wish I didnt believe I was gonna get some cake after Portal... goddamn computer lieing to me.

I wish I'd try my hardest in school. "Free qualifications? No thanks." What an idiot teenager I was.
I wish had learned to save at a younger age, sure I wouldn't have such a wide appreciation for games, movies and music but I'd have probably visited a lot more countries around the world.

i'm sure i would have gotten into a lot more fights. i've always been kinda mad about how much sh|t i used to shrug off because i was taught to be polite and well mannered. by no means was i bullied, but the stuff was just aggravating enough to justify cracking someone with a bit of old plumbing.

I wish I hadn't ripped my friends sink off his bathroom wall when I was hammered once...

I wish I hadn't got off with some fat girl in the same friends house at a party a year before also when I was hammered (the amount of grief off friends after was just really not worth it)...

I wish I hadn't wasted so much of my adolescence playing so many computer games and actually done something more with the 18 years of my life so far...

Like a lot of you, I wish I could do my schooling all over again, at least in high school and university. Way to go me, waste years of your life...

I wish I could relive my life, and do everything opposite to what I did in this one. All of it.

I would have taken the blue pill.

I wish that I had actually applied myself socially better at school. I am very shy and I find it hard to talk to people, because of this I had maybe 2-3 close friends at school and a load of acquaintances. Nowadays after we've gone off to uni and back for the Summer I find a lot of people are busy with all of their new uni friends but the same thing happened at Uni. I see one maybe two friends from school nowadays and don't talk to anyone from Uni because whilst we were friends at the time we never really *clicked*.

Ya know, I WANT to try and feel sorry for myself and complain about how I want to relive my life like most of you shamelessly are... but I just can't help thinking of what Comic Book Guy said after he had realized all he did his life was read comics. Change comics to games, add play into the mix,

Quote "Life well spent!" unquote.

I wish that when I was 12, I wasnt in such a hurry to be 18. I still had alot of time left to be a kid, and looking back on it, I sqaundered something I wont get back. That, and theres a girl that I probably shouldnt have walked away from, but again, I was young.

Live and learn?

I would have pulled the brakes instead of pinning it at Rutland 18 months ago.

That way I'd be one inch taller and would have the memories of three days that are missing...

I regret nothing. Without my mistakes I wouldn't be who I am today. You have to take the good with the bad nothing ever goes to plan so why bother trying to imagine if it did.

conqueror Kenny:
I regret nothing. Without my mistakes I wouldn't be who I am today. You have to take the good with the bad nothing ever goes to plan so why bother trying to imagine if it did.

Exactly it. Sure we all do dumb stupid things, but without them you'd be a different person. It can always be worse!

TerribleTerryTate:

conqueror Kenny:
I regret nothing. Without my mistakes I wouldn't be who I am today. You have to take the good with the bad nothing ever goes to plan so why bother trying to imagine if it did.

Exactly it. Sure we all do dumb stupid things, but without them you'd be a different person. It can always be worse!

Amen!
(Gets mauled by bear from bad flea market purchase)

fix-the-spade:
I would have pulled the brakes instead of pinning it at Rutland 18 months ago.

That way I'd be one inch taller and would have the memories of three days that are missing...

Sorry but you have to explain what happened. I can't let stuff like that go unanswered

conqueror Kenny:
I regret nothing. Without my mistakes I wouldn't be who I am today. You have to take the good with the bad nothing ever goes to plan so why bother trying to imagine if it did.

I REGRET NOTHING.

conqueror Kenny:
I regret nothing. Without my mistakes I wouldn't be who I am today. You have to take the good with the bad nothing ever goes to plan so why bother trying to imagine if it did.

Sort of true for me. There specific point in my life that, while I may be ashamed of them, I will keep, because that's why I am who I am. I went through a rough couple of years, but I think I came out better for it. Thats why my Freshman year is the only thing I would want to change, just try a bit harder. Probably the biggest thing thats going to keep me out of the Naval Academy.

Theoretically yes-various times getting into trouble, once not asking a girl out, but then I wouldn't be who I am today, and I am awesome.

Well, say what you will about not being who you are today if you did things different, I still wish I'd told my mother that if she was so damned enamored of Physics, that she could accept that scholarship and I'd just find a way to work my way through cooking school. At least I'd know how to do something useful instead of sitting here...

...well, in all likelihood I'd still be sitting and posting at the Escapist at some point in my day, but it wouldn't be at my desk while witing for John and Jane Doe to bitch at me about how much the insurance on thier brand new H3 is costing them.

I happen to believe that everything happens for a reason, and that if I changed things, it would only make things worse in the long run...

As bad as things have been for me and Jallil, I imagine they would have been much worse had they happened any differently. I know for a fact we appreciate each other more because of what we went through than if we had stayed together this whole time...

TerribleTerryTate:

conqueror Kenny:
I regret nothing. Without my mistakes I wouldn't be who I am today. You have to take the good with the bad nothing ever goes to plan so why bother trying to imagine if it did.

Exactly it. Sure we all do dumb stupid things, but without them you'd be a different person. It can always be worse!

Amen, So much truth....

I have no regrets, I feel no sorrow. Should it begin again, I shall do the same as before, ad infinitum.

I'd have more sex.

Erm, let me rephrase that. In high school I was such a depressing little sack of shit that I was completely unaware that there were some girls who were actually interested in me. An ironic fate that led to a few rounds of Forehead vs. Wall. What's really twisted is that I've since learned to embrace irony and incorporate into my life as often as possible. Hey, it makes things interesting.

Anyway, I now realize that if I had pulled my head out of the sand as a teenager, I might have had some fun in Vaginaville. Then again, I might not be the smartass I am today had I gone that route. Makes you think, doesn't it.

I definately would change it if I could. I've just wasted so much of my years here doing nothing of any value or higher purpose I wouldn't say I've had a real life so far. More like a half life.

I have little knowledge of how people or the world opporates, the fews friends I've had have either moved across the nation or they betrayed me (you don't need to know), and the one time in my life where there was a girl who actually cared for me (I'm pretty sure she did anyway) I was waist deep in being a fucking retard (seriously when I was younger I wore nothing but sweat pants and vilcro because I a. couldn't wear denim jeans cause 'didn't like the feel and b. I couldn't tie shoes til the motherfuckin' 7TH GRADE!! Autism does that to ya ) so yeah it's pretty much been a wash for me.

Oh, and would reconsider fornicating with a tree on school property... but that's one of those thing that made what I am. I've come a long way in 2 years.

Its really hard to say... Things have been awesome and things have been shitty and I've made plenty of mistakes, but all my experience amounts to the present, which I am not dissatisfied with.

I suppose the most obvious would be to have never tried opiates, as 2 years of strung-out addiction seriously complicated my life on many fronts. But fuck it, like I said, it wasn't complete shittiness that held me to that course...

"Those who walk backwards run into walls"

Live without regret.

I would totally do high school all over again. You have no idea how many people are probably calling me an idiot right now but the truth is you miss those days when there gone. I saw five people i went to school with yesterday and every single one of them in misserable.

The only thing I really regret doiing is in 5th grade. After my best friend and I got into a huge fight, it came to blows, or, rather, it would have, if I hadn't sliced his arm open with a bottle cap. It looked much worse then it was, it was actually quite minor. It didn't even leave a scar, but to this day, it's the only thing I regret.

Addendum: To apologize, in front of everyone, in class, I kowtowed (bowed to the floor), and asked forgiveness. He gave it, and, ironically, it was around this time his father stopped hating me.

Haliwali:

fix-the-spade:

That way I'd be one inch taller and would have the memories of three days that are missing...

Sorry but you have to explain what happened. I can't let stuff like that go unanswered

Pretty simple and dull actually. Sunday afternoon, riding through the country side with mates coming up to a double/drop that we built.
Normally the way to ride it is to brake, roll down the first hump and take off over the second, but I thought I'd try and take off on the first and land on the back of the second. Thereby winning major style and bragging points.

Of course, it didn't work. I landed one wheel either side of the second hump. Neatly firing me head first into the ground at speed. 20kg mountain bike following between legs.
After that is a bit sketchy, I remember standing up and saying something along the lines of "oh dear, that didn't go according to plan,"
But then there's a big gap and it's Thursday morning in Lincoln intensive care ward. Apparently shortly after standing up I complained of dizzyness, then went down like a sack of potatoes.

I wish I had...

-Learned to use power tools
-Learned to play the guitar
-Gotten into a sport/martial art when I was younger
-Learned to play the guitar
-Been quicker to resort to violence when people pissed me off in elementary school, instead of not bashing some jackass's face in because I was afraid of getting into trouble.
-Made better class choices in high school

As far as concerns with the womenfolk go, I don't really have regrets that are based upon bad choices that I made, but rather, shitty circumstances screwing me over. Sometimes I wonder if there were anyone who was interested in me (aside from one relationship that's not even worth mentioning). But now I'll never know. But such is life. So many choices, and when there's more than just an obvious "good or bad" choice, you can't help but wonder what you could have achieved had you chosen path B over path C.

Then again, as for learning from your mistakes and becoming a better person, as many people have mentioned, I think my hatred of my own failures has driven me to become a lot stronger. It was my self-hatred over not exercising when I was younger (outside of gym class) that drove me to get into kickboxing and go running/walking every day. It was my self-hatred over the times I didn't ask out the girl I liked when I had the chance that drove me to eventually grow a pair and ask her out.

The moral of the story: Hooray for rageahol.

Yeah I'll jump onto the school bandwagon too...
- If I could relive just 2 weeks ago, I wouldn't have done all the stupid stuff I did whilst drunk ><
- I'd have made sure my relationship with a good friend hadn't tarnished like it has now.
- I'd have chosen a PS3 over the Wii for christmas (I know I know...the pull of Sonic & the Secret Rings was too strong)
- I'd have saved my Birthday Money and not bought any of the new Sonic games which in time would kill my love for the series..
- I'd have chosen to have my dead tooth pulled instead of having to endure 2 root canals.
- I'd have learnt to play an instrument.
- I'd apply myself more in my Maths & Science classes and get an 'A*'s instead of 'A's

I would have insist that my mother go get checked out when she told me she had a "pale lump" of skin on her side.

I would have worked harder at school

I would have gotten into playing sport of some kind

I would have been nicer to lot of people

I would not have told Shabanna I loved her.

I've messed up so many times. I even have a criminal record. But I wouldn't change a thing. Even if things didn't work out my way all the time, or that one special girl got away, I still have no regrets.