What's The One Thing You Wish You Had Done ...

[Rudimental]

What's the one thing you wished you had done in your youth/younger days?

Mine is I'd wish I'd have gone travelling although it wasn't really a thing 20 years ago, like it is now.

Also, I'd wish I'd have slept with a women ( I'm female ) always been a tad curious, I'm married now and have a couple of kids so missed the boat there!

Ditched the weed dealing boyfriend and concentrated more on my A levels.

Travelled more, I went to SE Asia for a couple of months but should’ve done more, or aimed to work/live abroad for a significant amount of time.

Not got into credit card debt for no damn good reason, I was stupid with money.

Loved abroad, back when I had no responsibilities at all. I don't know why I didn't...

I wish I had spent gime really working out what I wanted to do and workingvtowards it instead of falling into a dead-end career.

I wish I'd joined the navy full time. I failed the fitness test and they told me to train a bit more and come back. I never did.

Travel
Study

They were things for other people, not me. The thought never entered my head that I could do them.

Despite me going to a grammar school with people who did do those things. My dads only aspirations for me was that I’d leave school at 16 and get a little job in Asda until I found a husband.

Tbh I wish I would have got help for my anxiety sooner and cut off friends who were toxic.

Oh and saved more! 🤣

I wish that I had gone to the 6th form interview instead of bottling out at the door and just leaving school. I should have tried for Uni which I really regret now. I also should have done things for me at 17 ie learn to drive instead of sitting home waiting for boyfriend to ring. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I actually wish I never went to Uni. I went because I didn't know what I wanted to do (TBH I still don't) with myself. Now I have a mediocre degree from a mediocre Uni that has nothing to do with my job.

I do wish I started running earlier. I always loved cross country at school, but once I left and started drinking (not heavy, just Fri/sat nights like most late teens/early 20's) and going out I didn't do anything like that. I took it up again when youngest DC was nearly a year old and I was mid 30's. That was nearly 13 years ago now and its one thing I've stuck at.

Not turned up at the register office.
Gone travelling
Gone to university (not at 32)

I wish i had never gone to that party where i met my now hubby.

I got a job offer to go in work in New England aged 21. I didn't go as was with then boyfriend at the time. We went on to get married and then divorced.
I often wonder how different life might have been had I moved to America.

I wish I'd gone to Glastonbury (or similar). I know people of my age (50s) do go to festivals but I really couldn't do it now with my rubbish sleep, inability to drink more than a couple of beers without feeling ill, and bladder that seems to have shrunk to the size of a thimble!

Yes this is mine too. What a waste. Why didn’t I just make more effort? “Could try harder” was me all over.

[Lighthearted] l wish l’d shagged a certain boy when l was in the VI form! I’m in my 40s now and still wish l’d gone for it 🫢.

Acknowledged my feelings to my crush and followed him across the world. 20 years later he told he had felt the same. Special place in ny heart for him.

Like you @Rudimental I wish I had had a relationship with a woman when I was young.
Recently (I am now middle aged) I did sleep with a woman, it was not a pleasant experience.

Slept around a bit more as I was so naïve and scared of getting pregnant.
Bought a house sooner than I did