What is the greatest failure in your life and have you done anything to rectify it?

[Shifty]

This may be a bit of a heavy thread but there may be some solace in reading other peoples posts.. let me explain.

What is your greatest failure and possible regret in your life be it academic, personal, financial, social or otherwise.
Please do not comment negatively on others posts. Remember that these are peoples personal issues and will mean more to them than you can understand. All problems are relative.

Personally I have two failures I look back on. One is not completing my engineering degree when I had the chance (I am currently back in college by night doing this) and not standing up to my family more when stupid issues arose out of fear of larger arguments. Now the relationships between my siblings and parents are all strained.

 

[Strain42]

My greatest failure is that when I lived in Japan I didn't date any Japanese girls (not for lack of trying)

In retrospect, if that's my greatest failure it makes me feel better about the rest of my life, but still. It would have been nice to date someone from another culture that I was involved in. We could have learned a lot from one another.

 

[Shifty]

My greatest failure is that when I lived in Japan I didn't date any Japanese girls (not for lack of trying)

In retrospect, if that's my greatest failure it makes me feel better about the rest of my life, but still. It would have been nice to date someone from another culture that I was involved in. We could have learned a lot from one another.

A girl I was going out with for years was Polish. I met her in my own country. There is always hope of meeting foreign people in your own country if that is what you are looking for. Best of luck.

 

[Jedoro]

I haven't tried to rectify any of my failures. I've either let go or learned my lesson, as I prefer to look anywhere from my 9 o'clock to my 3 o'clock.

That being said, I think my greatest failure was not completing US Army Infantry OSUT, and because of that, Airborne School and Ranger Indoctrination Program.

 

[Randomhitter]

I guess the largest thing I regret is the time I've spent doing nothing. I don't mean relaxing and enjoying free time, I mean the amount of time I have literally spent doing nothing productive, educational, or meaningful to any person any where. Even this post might be helpful to someone, or at the very least lets me interact with people. But I'll never get that segment of my life back and no one got a ROI for that time.

Not to say I still lament the fact, it would just be the thing I would change in my life if I got a do over.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Not finishing high school and basically wasting the best years of my life.

Too late to rectify it now since I'm totally stuck in my current situation.

 

[Esotera]

Did a load of drugs/alcohol that may or may not have contributed to an onset of hallucinations, that are likely to be with me for all my life. I also made the same girl dump two boyfriends (yep, I did this twice), only to break up with her after a few days. To be fair, the first time was not entirely intentional.

 

[Vault101]

screwing up my education and not taking opertunites, it makes me feel like an -under-acheiver, I thourght I coudl acheive SOMTHING..be good at SOMTHING but yeah

but then again the irony is Ive ended up in a really good/better position...so I dont know how to feel about that..except for the fact Im really REALLY lucky

I dont think Ive relaly done anything about it...I mean long term Im not sure what Ill do

 

[Mondai Randy]

I sometimes regret staying in college (when I get stressed) , but I know it's worth it

 

[Sandernista]

I don't think I can even write my greatest mistake down.

I'm not gonna try.

No I have not done enough to rectify it.

 

[uzo]

I regret going to uni straight from school.

If I could go back and advise myself at 17 yrs old I'd say this:

Don't go straight to uni. Get a job. Work in the real world for at least a year. Pay your own rent, bills; do your tax returns *on time*; and save as much money as you can. After that, go to uni. You'll have the wisdom to give a shit and do something correctly.

 

[Kuilui]

I regret not going out on dates in school. I had a number of interested girls but my standards were to high and I just didn't care about dating. Nobody told me "Just go for the practice" or anything like that. I still have done nothing really. I get very obvious looks from pretty girls but I'm such a spineless wuss. So here I am in my room years after high school wasting the best years of my life. I go to work and do college but feel like I should be dating. But my own cowardice keeps me alone. Now I'm depressed...

 

[The Thinker]

At this point, procrastination. And I mean literally, at this point. Right now. I make poor time-management choices.

 

[PunkyMcGee]

I was reckless and didn't give a fuck attitude lead to poor life choices. wound up working in McDonald's until my mid 20's. So, I cut those "friends" from my life, and I'm going back to school.

 

[SovietSecrets]

Greatest failure of my life would probably be getting hooked on painkillers. Said that so many times on here I feel like a broken record, but meh. Haven't done anything to rectify it either since its just too easy to get them and work instantly.

 

[DanielBrown]

Allowing myself to be isolated for almost a full year when I took a sabbathical from school. In the beginning I had a girlfriend and some friends to hang out with, but after an assault and addiction to WoW I started staying inside more and more. Eventually I never went outside at all.
When it was time to start in school again I had gone from being cocky, and having no problems with social situations, to being scared shitless of just going outside. Ended up with social phobia and I've had it for six years now.
For the past two years I've been on calming medicine and anti-depressants to help me get outside more, but for every step I take forward I seem to go three steps back. It's pretty much ruined my life.