Alice 💋 · 11 answers · 3y

What's something you regret in life, and how different would life be for you now if given the chance to undo that decision?

Quitting my job in the South East and moving to the coast.

I regret it from a financial perspective.

If I hadn't done it though, I wouldn't have my daughter. So with that in mind, I wouldn't undo the decision.

I always regret that I didn't study enough in grad school to get a better GPA. I worked a lot and sacrificed grad school for getting a bit more money. If I studied more and kept my GPA high, I'd now have a better chance at getting admission from good North American or European universities ...

I can't say I regret getting depression, fairly sure it couldn't be avoided. But I do regret the way I tackled it... it was really hard so I took the approach to get comfortable with panic attacks and depression rather than fight it. Its easy to say now I'm in a better place but I should have had a go at fighting not just for me but for those who love me.

maybe just the fact that i've kept some people in my life longer than i should have, just to save myself some time and peace but other than that I can't think of much else

Probably moving to Boston, not that it's all bad of a city, and it was a good career move - but it wrecked my personal life, I thought I'd just be able to come back one day and have things be like before, but nope...I'd be poorer but happier if I'd stayed

I should have kept contact with Liz, but for the better or worse we lost it. I regret to not have asked her out. I still dream about we could have had an intense time then. But that time and she are lost.

Killing that snake with a slingshot back when I was either a kid or a young adult. My life would be exactly the same--the butterfly effect notwithstanding.

I’m content so far. I really don’t regret much, if anything. There are certain things I have control of and other things I do not. I didn’t know what I didn’t know (but now I do), and I’m ok with my journey so far.

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