To ask what you wish you did while you were young?

[wishingona]

I'm 24 and I keep getting the feeling that this is my time and I should be making more of it.

What do you wish you did while you were my age (not even sure 24 counts as young)?

Not traveled more, though. I guess I mean the more day to day stuff.

Any advice?

Travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling.

I wonder if it's because it's unusual to have it all. If you've enjoyed the parties, travelling etc you might wish you'd bought a house earlier. If you were sensible and settled down you might wish you'd had more sex and traveled more.

We can't travel every path and if we'd chosen something different we might not have what we have now.

Im v aware now how many opportunities you area able to get in 20s simply as a young woman. And how hard it is to reinvent yourself as an overweight middle aged mum!

I wish I'd realised that was as good as it gets: I look back at pictures now and can't believe how beautiful and shapely I was - if anyone told me that, I assumed it was just talk. I didn't do the drugs, and hated being an undergrad - but I was a prolific shagger (mainly because I thought it was rude to say no) and lived and worked overseas, which seems to be the basis for a lot of people's regrets.

I guess I'd have more confidence in myself and my abilities, worry less about what other people thought - and would remember that a year isn't a long time!

A comment on the wild parties and raves.

I started feeling like s sensible stickler who doesnt have fun recently. I don't drink and the thought of going to the pub or worse a bar or club where people are loud and drunk fills me with dread.

BUT I have found the answer. I have been going to all night extremely cool parties (think Gastby inspired where everyone is dressed to the nines) NO alcohol. PROPLUS. Go DAAAANNNNNCCCEEE ALL frigging night. guilt free fun and it's changing my life I feel like I can have fun again. Proplus.

side story, someone recently came up to me when I was getting my coat to say: Hey I saw you dancing all night! You just really wanted to be there if anyone deserves a night like this you do. Damn straight Gurl.

I agree different people wish they'd done different stuff even if what they Did do was the right decision.

I really don't think I will miss the wild stuff and it's not my scene at all. I don't think I know anyone who raves or takes drugs (think I said) but I'm from the countryside and I doubt there's much available in the arse end of nowhere.

Worn my glittery hot pants more 😄

I wish I'd tried harder at school when it mattered. I'm quite bright really but I've had to eork very hard at my originally entry level job to make any money.

I wish I'd moved away for Uni instead of staying at home for financial reasons, but I suppose graduating debt-free was good.

Also that I'd had more relationship experience, rather than meeting ex-H at 18. I stayed with him till 29 & really wish I'd had more sexual/relationship experience. Made up for it later, but wish I'd done it the other way round.

I felt my life in my 20's was very narrow & I wish I'd experienced a little more "living", perhaps taking a year out abroad, being single......

And I bloody wish I'd appreciated my size 10 days a hell of a lot more!

Agreed Prosecco I'd love to be size 10 now! Wish I'd started getting fitter and healthier a bit earlier so I had less far to go now.

Lived alone.
Not married that one.
More sex. More sex.
Travelled more.
Worked abroad.
Left the crappy job.

Have a gap year before going to university, even if I had spent most of it working. I should not have gone at 18.

Main thing I wish I'd done that I didn't was have 'unsuitable' boyfriends. And friends. Also wish I'd started saving.

I did a lot of things when I was young that I'm glad I did:

• worked abroad for a year
• took out a pension
• travelled on my own (still do)
• stayed true to myself.

I wish I'd worn a bikini. Every day. Everywhere! I look back at how slim and beautiful I was and just remember how inadequate I always felt!

In fact, I should have dressed a lot more outrageously and body-con.

And looked after my teeth better. And invested in a pension!

Things I'm glad I did: lived all over the world. Travelled. Studied hard. Learned lots of foreign languages.

Things I wish I'd done: stayed in one place so all my friends would be in one place. There's nowhere I can be now that I'm not missing someone.