Poll: Ever felt bad after doing something good?

[Edorf]

As the topic says, have you ever done something good/right but really regret the choice you made afterwards?
I thought of this because today was the most shitty day in a long time:

It's my third day of school, I know no one there, and no one else in my class knows anyone either. The second day I had met some really cute girls and a few cool dudes, which I wanted to hang around with. So anyway, today there was this guy sitting all alone when I entered the class room, I could see the cute girls sitting around another table, but I thought "ah, what the heck... I'll go sit with this lonley fellow." I thought I'd only sit with him for the first hour, but it ended up with him following me around ALL DAY. Now I totally regret sitting with him, as I fear that he will keep following me tomorrow aswell, when I should be on another table talking with cute/hot girls! I just know that if I dont hang out with some of the others very soon, and get away from this one guy he will end up being my "friend" for the entire year. *regret* /vent

 

[Legion]

Is the guy particularly annoying or only annoying because he followed you around and stopped you talking to girls? If it is the latter then simply introduce him to the other people and see if that works. If the person is a part of a group he may feel less inclined to stick with you all the time, plus you get to socialise with other people you want to as well.

Mine is a little more simplistic: I regret being helpful at work because it means the management feels inclined to try and take advantage of me. The harder people work, the more they get used while the lazy ones get away with doing nothing.

 

[TriggerUnhappy]

Well sometimes I get post-masturbation regret....

No, nothing that I can think of.

 

[Edorf]

Is the guy particularly annoying or only annoying because he followed you around and stopped you talking to girls? If it is the latter then simply introduce him to the other people and see if that works. If the person is a part of a group he may feel less inclined to stick with you all the time, plus you get to socialise with other people you want to as well.

Well, the thing is... He probably wasnt the most popular guy where he came from, and his hobbies are really odd and boring (He takes pictures and makes movies, but he doesnt watch movies WTF?). He isnt particularly annoying, it's just that I dont think he would enjoy being with them. He's not really very social - in the sense that he's not very willing to tell us about himself and such, gets kind of awkward everytime he says something. On the same time, I dont want him to be all alone :|

 

[seventy7l]

My situation is somewhat similar to the OP's in fact except the guy is somewhat social but the reason i regret doing said good deed is he swears at me for no reason its like he has turrets or something only around me -_-. Also he just follows people around.Also he is quite the ass.

 

[ace_of_something]

No one said doing the right thing is always the easy thing.
Eventually he'll probably find someone more his speed anyway.

In my line of work doing moral choices are constant and sometimes doing the right thing can make you feel really bad.

 

[Jedamethis]

I did the exact same thing, except it was a year ago, and he still won't find his own friends...

 

[Edorf]

I did the exact same thing, except it was a year ago, and he still won't find his own friends...

Exactly :| I did the same thing 3 years ago and now I'm stuck with this guy thinking he's my best friend, expect the guy this happened with 3 years ago is a slightly nice guy and has the same interests as me. He has some kind of sickness which makes him socially awkward (true story)

 

[sageoftruth]

I actually made a thread about it awhile back: Giving to people who approach you for money. As I said then, "It is a lose lose situation: If you keep your money, you feel selfish; If you give your money, you feel naive and stupid."

P.S. If you want to see it, it is called, "Should I give my dollar"

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

I returned somebody's wedding ring. Could've sold it...

I'm horrible.

 

[Eggsnham]

I've been in a situation similar to yours.

Only the guy approached me and refused to stop following me wherever he saw me.

He was a bit of an asshat as well, every time I (and by default he) was in close proximity to a cute girl; he would make some sort of comment about them in the sexual nature. Oh yeah, and he would do so in such a way that everyone within a thirty yard radius of him would hear him.

He also told an endless supply of Jeff Foxworthy jokes and called me Fonzie incessantly.

It got to the point where after a few weeks of him following me around and being a general asshat, I told him very loudly to shut up and stop following me after he'd just made a particularly ridiculous comment about some random girls' cleavage and everyone within earshot (A.K.A. The entire school) looked at him (and by default, me) with a sort of animal like hatred and generally violent spark in their eyes.

Obviously some of that is exaggerated, but he actually did do all of those things and he did actually make some pretty rude comments loud enough for a lot of people (including those that the comments were aimed at) to hear him.

 

[supermaster1337]

Live life without regrets. If you do something good, you should not regret it. Think of positives.

 

[Edorf]

Live life without regrets. If you do something good, you should not regret it. Think of positives.

There are no positives in my situation!

 

[supermaster1337]

You helped a lonely fellow possibly get a head start.

 

[Vampire cat]

Meh. Just go sit with the girls tomorrow then. I don't see the problem. Maybe he comes to join you, maybe you wave him over, I don't know...

I sat down with a girl that was all alone the first day of high school, we started talking and now we're very good friends. I'm a bit of an outsider myself tho, I prefer hanging with a few people I know and not expand my "friends list" too much. Which is why I have very few friends on here too (tho people seem to add me at random all the time)