Biggest regret light-hearted

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Mine is never being able to afford a Concorde flight to New York.
What's yours?

@Itha 💐

Wishing I had committed to memory the Wi-Fi password of every place I've visited.

My A levels cock up and poor uni choice - my parents divorced after my GCSE’s and I went a bit off the rails and no-one really noticed.

It all worked out ok in the end but I definitely took the wrong path for a bit.

Getting stuck overseas raising my DC instead of being able to give them an amazing childhood in my home country

Not keeping up with French when I left school. I'd love to have another language under my belt now.

Not having the confidence in myself to know I could have gone much higher up the career ladder when younger.

Wasting so much money in my twenties and thirties.

Staying with my unfaithful boyfriend in my late teens/early twenties. Absolutely ruined my self confidence for years.

Moving in with my (now) ex in my 30s and getting civil partnered, instead of staying single.

-Not studying in a top university, I had high grades
-Not learning how to drink carefully
-Should have avoided having an affaire with an older man, I was completely manipulated

What's stopping you now?

I'm sure it's going to be something as insurmountable as a huge mortgage or similar outgoings, but if by some slim chance it's not, and it's just fear of the unknown, go for it!!

me too

Not buying a green leather handbag on Edinburgh market ten years ago. Not seizing every opportunity to travel when my energy and drinking levels were a lot higher.

Urghhh.

These threads always end up going the same way. (Not criticising that at all!) They're started with the "lighthearted" qualifier and end up filled with serious regrets.

I'm really sorry if I seemed unfeeling with my blasé post. I do have far more major regrets. I was just picking a trivial one for what I thought was going to be a lighthearted thread...

Saying no to having a one night stand in The Ritz, we’d been at Mahiki and it was the closest hotel. He was a client and I later found out he was engaged so probably for the best!

Getting so drunk on a uni night out that I accidentally kissed the friend of the boy I'd fancied all term and was (finally) on a promise with that night, if I hadn't messed it up.

Not taking the last biscuit on the plate.

Taking the last piece of cake on the plate!

Light-hearted ones

Not trying to buy that house we saw 3 weeks ago - should have just gone for it! Oh well.

Not doing a summer abroad - I should have leaned in to what I thought was the time wasting opportunity to piss about abroad (I'm not sure I'm wrong that it is a time waster financially and in terms of work experience, but it sure looked fun!)

Moderate hearted:

Not having a romantic or sexual relationship with a woman. As a full grown adult, I identify as bisexual, but I met DH at 20 so didn't really have that opportunity. It's still moderate hearted as I'm happy in my relationship, but it would have been nice to have that opportunity

Had a one night stand with a rugby player who literally picked me up and fucked me against the wall.

He wanted to see me again.

I didn't bother. I don't know why!!!

Not shagging the Greek waiter on holiday in 2002 because I had a boyfriend at home who went on the break my heart a year later.

Staying at home for university, The campus we were on was half an hour from the rest of the university, and tiny. So missed out on the whole student experience. Though as student nurses, it was bit tricky to do that anyway. I was happy there, but regret not knowing about all the clubs and social stuff.

Not working hard enough in school & getting crap GCSEs - then choosing the wrong A levels initially (although after changing subjects and working much harder I got decent enough grades for uni).
Again, didn’t work hard enough for degree and getting a Desmond! Had a great time at uni though…
Not taking up a great work opportunity cos I’d just met DH (he wasn’t dh then) and it would’ve meant a residential course.

A few years on … not going back to work after having dd - i piddled about freelancing but should’ve gone back p/t as my career never really ‘took off’ and now I’m close to retirement age doing a pretty mundane job for shit money in a small organisation with no prospects (do not want my managers job - ever!).

And I def regret not going to that party at uni with Colin 😆

To not have found out what I’m good at.
To have got myself some good career advise and applied for interviews at that job fair I went to in my 20’s, I went clueless got all the info and didn’t know what to do with it all. Traveled and lived in another country for a while.

Don’t regret anything in my life nor am I unhappy but will definitely encourage my kids to live a little and take a few risks.

I wish I'd properly rebelled as a teenager, but I was too meek and well behaved. I've ended up with serious mental health issues and chronic pain so all that hard work at school amounted to nothing anyway.
I do sometimes wonder where I'd be if I'd grown a spine and told everyone to sod off and actually pursue the creative stuff I enjoyed and not maths.

A vindaloo vag?

Gaining weight/exercising less when I was younger. Trying to lose weight and exercise more now but it's really hard.

Getting off the tube when the hottest guy ever mimed ' is this your stop?' , we had been staring at each other for the entire journey- twit