We all make decisions that we later end up regretting. Some are minor or even funny while others really impact our life negatively. Have you ever wished you could go back in time? Well, these people have.

Our community members were asked to share some bad decisions they regret making, and quite a bunch of them delivered. Scroll down to do some “eavesdropping” and see if you can relate.

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Procrastinating. I wanna stop, but maybe later?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

lemme try to help. if you need to do something, start it now so you wont have to later. dont overwork yourself, you can take 5-10 minute breaks if youve done a good amount of work. if you want, get a lil candy to reward yourself :)

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#2

Staying at a job too long where I was unappreciated and paid crap wages, for no good reason other than it was familiar and the prospect of leaving it was scary.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Understandable. Looking for a job is one of the suckiest activities a person can engage in.

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Not visiting my relatives when I was a teenager because I wanted to look "cold and distant". Now many of my amazing and loving aunts, uncles and grandparents are dead, and I would give up anything to go back in time and hug them.

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#4

Not being able to say "no" when I should.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Try searching up some refusal skills. They help quite a lot. If you don't want to search 'em up, here are the refusal skills. 1. Say "No" in a strong voice but calmly 2. Just leave the situation 3. Suggest another idea 4. Try changing the subject

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#5

Not focusing too much on school when I should have

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#6

Stress eating, “eating my feelings”. Wish I could address my stress and anxiety better, and stop normalizing food as stress reduction.

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Monica A. M.
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#7

overeating

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charlotte jeffries
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't see the problem here food is yummers but a good tip to lose weight is to climb a mountain in order to get food, that way u procrastinate and get so anxious that u lose weight and also realise this was all a dream and I didn't get enough sleep last night

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#8

Letting myself get used time and time again.

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#9

marrying the wrong person

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Im sorry for your experience, but I'm really glad that someone out there can understand me. I'm going through a lot right now and nobody understands me. It's hard, really had. And ther is nobody, literally nobody I can talk to. It's feels like I'm drowning

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#10

Trusting a fart after eating Mexican food.

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#11

Going to a huge 4-year uni instead of a CC. Costs were nuts and the teaching was impersonal

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#12

Not speaking my real feeling because it can sound harsh. It always ended up with me being hurt cause I’m too sensitive.

Boy, how great my life would be if I can speak it up.

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#13

When I bought my home, I put my husband on the deed even though the mortgage was in my name and my parents had given me the downpayment. He tried to get half when we divorced, but I reminded him that I paid off his student loans with my inheritance and he shut right up. I miss that house.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hope young people here read this. So many of my friends and relatives made this same mistake. Just think seriously about the financial side of divorce before you get married or make any major decisions. Thank you for posting.

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#14

a messy room

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

THIS I mean my rooms not that messy *weirdly hops to other side of the room* *develops specific methods of walking across my smoll room* *can't close door* *finds treasure on the floor every day*

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#15

binge watching shows, and them missing them once i watched all the episodes later

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#16

Not caring about high school, I had no GPA in 11th grade. Still doing well in life but if I would have applied even anything back then who knows.

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#17

engaged in an online discussion

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Arguing on the Internet is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon craps all over the board and then struts around like it won.

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#18

Started "dating" too soon. It set the unstable pace for the rest of my emotional life. And led to worse decisions.

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Robert Thompson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I started becoming intensely interested in boys crazy early, like third grade. I often wonder if I had managed to focus more on friends and becoming my own person, could I have avoided a lot of the emotional trauma of trying to have serious relationships so early in middle anf high school. I think I was seeking approval where it came most easily at that time. I lucked way out finding my husband and having a real, healthy partnership.

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#19

Looked for happiness and left a high paying job to do things I wanted to do like travel, write and what not.

Now I am in a role that is not just annoyingly demanding but comparatively low paying.

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Bishal Rai
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#20

Nearly committing suicide

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Candace Alagappan
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Has happened twice, and another time if i had a weapon. My mother found me disassembling razor blades to do it with once about a year ago, and around a month ago i had another incident where i REALLY wanted to but couldn't work up the nerve to just do it. i have scars from that day (testing out my weapon of choice on my wrists, which i lied aobut and claimed were papercuts). Depression is hard. I hope you feel better though, you deserve a good life.

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#21

50 years ago, I could have bought cakes of Red Seal pu’er tea in Hong Kong for about two bucks a cake. They had piles of them. Now one is worth about $300,000.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep 34 years ago I could have put $500 into an empty prepaid cell phone business and had mu own territory. But hey it was just a passing fad right.

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#22

Staying with my mum when my parents split up

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ouch. im sorry about your parents. i know what its like to have a bad relationship with my mom.

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#23

Using the key once on my math homework. Now every time I can't complete it easily I get frustrated, remember how easy copying the key is, and copy it. I can not stop it's insane

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#24

Gas station sushi.

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#25

Not going to college! I wish I had pursued my dream to be an avian vet; now I don’t have the time to do it.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's never too late! I went to college with a wonderful couple in their 60s that were working on their third degree (not meant as a pun). With online or correspondences courses available, you just need to find what works for you.

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#26

Staying with my family. My parents divorced and I stayed with mum, she overworked herself to the point where she had to retire early due to mental breakdown. Now she has crappy pension and (in her opinion) has to take care of Granny that can no longer walk. Since I started working along with attending Uni, I became far more straightforward and clearly say that I don't agree with that. She is exhausted and all she does is complain to me in the evening about everything at granny's. I love my family, they gave me and my brother what they could with the little we always had, but it's a while that I started to notice just how toxic this family actually is. Every little thing will either be ignored or start a both sided yelling fit, there is no room for healthy discussions, every time I wanted to raise a valid argument over something, it's ignored or I'm point blank told that someone like me (a stupid student that can't hold a job, I work with people, not really possible nowadays) should just shut up and leave if I don't like something and in the next breath they start to discuss when will we do the transfer of ownership of Granny's apartment (another issue altogether). I just can't, I'm exhausted, every little thing that happens at our place becomes my fault although I warned them it could happen. I just wish everything will be open again so I can at the very least escape to my job...

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Eliška Malachovová
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stay strong, you can get through this; It might not get better but you will be stronger or it will get sorted out somehow; trust me...

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#27

Trust a friend that pushed me in a lake causing me to get surgery on my foot.

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#28

Quitting a job after 20 years due to racial discrimination 🙁

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

nothing to regret. if they disrespect you, you report it and leave you can get another job, keep looking

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#29

Playing video games at school, I never got caught but now I can't sleep well.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Playing video games since I was 5 ...... a solid 40 years never did i cringe

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#30

I said my opinion on a character's sexuality in an anime because I think he's Bisexual (not proven and I even say that but it is a huge theory) and I started an entire war on a YouTube video with one comment that said "There is no way this character is straight"

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