If you could go back in time and do one thing differently ...

[annie987]

... what would it be?

I'd have stopped giving a shit about what my family think of me sooner. They genuinely have no idea who I am, and I don't think they ever did and I let them batter me into a box of their choosing for too long.

I wish I had insisted on a second opinion for a worsening health issue. I might have had a chance of limiting the damage and level of disability if I had followed my instincts.

Spent more time with my brother when he became ill.

If I knew my life would be so shit after recovering I would have asked my parents to let me die when I was seriously ill.

I wish I'd studied harder at school then learnt a profession.
I would have said no when my second husband proposed.

I'd have trained to be a doctor

Some of these are so sad

@randomchap I’m so sorry

I regret shutting the blog I started in the years before it all really took off - with the contacts I had in the beauty industry I think I would have made a lot of £ out of it.

Not gone into work that morning and gone to visit my grandad like my gut told me I should. I went in the afternoon and by the time I’d arrived at the hospital he had already passed.

I wish I’d gone to my graduation.

I would have started trying to conceive earlier.

As regrets go mine aren’t too bad, I hope the list stays nice and short to be honest.

Would never have gone on a holiday. It changed the way my life is forever

Massive panic attack ( never had one before) caused me to spiral into depression/anxiety. It's been 8 years and I'm not the person I was before. Unable to fly, massively claustrophobic.

It's pretty hideous

At 18 I had a fantastic opportunity to go to South America on a working holiday. I was all set to start fundraising and go but my folks talked me out of it. It would have been at the end of my first year of uni so the fundraising would have taken place during that year. They were concerned it would distract me from studying and they weren't really happy for me to go so far away from home. They told me it was just too much of a challenge and I should accept I wouldn't be able to go. I dropped out. The others got loads of help with fundraising, met the target and had a brilliant, once in a lifetime experience. I filled my free time at uni with seeing my now ex and by the end of the first year I'd flunked everything and dropped out. I've often wondered if having the trip to focus on would have kept me out of trouble, but I guess everyone only did what they genuinely thought was best.

use a better condom ngl bro

Letting my STBX move back in 10 years ago after we had separated.