"Trying to be someone who I wasn’t."
"Not realizing that my parents weren’t doing the best job raising me/preparing me for adulthood and realizing I should maybe take matters into my own hands."
"Not taking better care of my teeth."
"Started smoking."
"I took my uncle’s beautiful restored classic car for a drive when I didn’t have a license and got it impounded."
"Not getting the hint that my friend, the beautiful Patricia, wanted to be WAY more than friends."
"Never having the courage to pursue girls or ask for help in figuring out how."
"When I had the opportunity, I did not go to study, but decided to go to work right away."
"Not being more sociable. I’m 25 now, and I have no f@#king idea how to make friends."
"Shared bank account with a girl at 19."
"I like horses. In 8th grade, I had a t-shirt that said ‘I LIKE HORSES’.This was in the early days of the internet. Guess how many times I got asked if I f@#ked horses?"
"Getting addicted to pills, specifically oxycodone which led to a ten-year heroin addiction that I’m just now 7 months clean from."
"Trying to be more mature.Since childhood, I prided myself on being an extremely smart person who was above things like “cartoons” and “playing.” Of course, I still liked those things, but I desperately tried to hide it even though literally nobody actually cared.
While everyone my age was dashing to tab away from p*rn, I was tabbing away from Minecraft Let’s Plays.Even though I’m older now and know that people don’t care, I still find myself tabbing away from cartoons and pausing games when people try to see what I’m doing. That instinct is still there. I usually just force myself to resume what I was doing, but I feel like I’d be better off if I didn’t have the desire to prove myself to others as a kid."
"Sold $200 worth of Bitcoins to a friend for tickets to a music festival back in 2011."
"I robbed a gas station."
"Looking back at the way I treated this one girl. I was cruel and thoughtless. I’m 50 now, and it still hurts me."
"Coasting through school on being bright and never learning to study. University was a shock and just about managed my 2.2."
"My biggest teenage mistake was not being kind to myself. My teenage years were some of the hardest in my life( hopefully).
Trauma after trauma, disappointment after disappointment. And I always blamed myself for them all.
It wasn’t until recently I could start looking back and realized that it really wasn’t my fault. I did a lot more than most would have in my situation. And that even though I had terrible teenage years, it’s not a reflection on who I am, but more a reflection on what I was going through.
It makes coming to terms with losing out on that part of your life much easier. And i wish i had this mindset much earlier."
"Marrying my 18-year-old self to a 40-year-old who’d been grooming me for three years, just to spite my mother.
0/10, would not recommend."
"Doing an unsuccessful backflip on a trampoline."
"My boyfriend talked me into trying a threesome, and then he left me for this very girl."
"Forcing myself to fall in love with a girl. I didn’t love her, I was in love with the idea of a girlfriend. Now to be fair, she made the same mistake. She didn’t love me. It was a bad relationship."
"I’m actually more worried about the mistakes I didn’t make. Making mistakes means you’re experiencing life. I was way too far in my shell to have fun."
"High school football. My doctor advised me against it but I was 14 and knew everything. Putting my body through four years of abuse was not worth what I got out of it.
Today I’m 33 and wake up with a stiff neck every day, my right shoulder has a ton of scar tissue, my elbow has a bone chip, my jaw clicks/pops if I open it too wide, and both of my knees ache when it gets too cold.
Also, our team s#cked."
"Well instead of applying myself I did acid and benzodiazepines assuming I’d just become Hunter S. Thompson … it did not work out."
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Never too late to do something new though.
you're better off.. college doesn't teach anything important now. i have a BA and inflation is kicking my accounting degree to the curb. i barely make more than a walmart peon.