30 Regretful Decisions Shared By The Bored Panda Community

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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Final score:

162points

Bee / she/her

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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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Final score:

135points

Tiny Dog

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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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Final score:

117points

Martz Migraña

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

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Final score:

116points

Metanoia

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Not focusing too much on school when I should have

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Final score:

105points

Joe Alvarez

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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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Final score:

93points

Monica A. M.

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overeating

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Final score:

85points

charlotte jeffries

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Letting myself get used time and time again.

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Final score:

83points

(っ◔◡◔)っ blush

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marrying the wrong person

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Final score:

74points

mummy pig

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#10

Trusting a fart after eating Mexican food.

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Final score:

74points

IlovemydogShilo

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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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Final score:

69points

Ciara Stone

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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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Final score:

67points

22Rincut

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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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Final score:

55points

Bettie-Jean Neal

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#14

a messy room

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Final score:

51points

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ a hooman

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#15

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

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Final score:

50points

ㅤㅤㅤ

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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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Final score:

41points

Terri Zagst

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#17

engaged in an online discussion

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Final score:

37points

Lilith the Demon Panda

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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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Final score:

31points

Robert Thompson

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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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Final score:

30points

Bishal Rai

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#20

Nearly committing suicide

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Final score:

29points

Candace Alagappan

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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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Final score:

29points

Yugan Talovich

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#22

Staying with my mum when my parents split up

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Final score:

28points

LAWLAWLAW

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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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Final score:

28points

-logansucrose- (he/him)

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#24

Gas station sushi.

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Final score:

28points

Terilee Bruyere

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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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Final score:

27points

Amie Redman

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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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Final score:

25points

Eliška Malachovová

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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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Final score:

21points

Just A Passing Parrot (she/her

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#28

Quitting a job after 20 years due to racial discrimination 🙁

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Final score:

19points

P.A.B.

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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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Final score:

16points

TheDragapultUser

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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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Final score:

11points

Michael Afton

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Carol Emory 3 years ago

Giving up when I gained weight when pregnant with my son. It resulted in me continuing to gain weight after his birth. I became depressed after my son was born, but turned it in on myself instead of getting professional help. Had I done so, I would not be obese with high blood pressure, Type 2 Diabetes and bad hips, back, knees. My son also probably wouldn't weigh nearly 400lbs now...both of us struggling to lose weight and get healthy. I grew up in a household where problems with in the family were not discussed outside the family. I wish I'd been able to see how much going to therapy would have helped everyone around me.

12points

AnnaB 3 years ago

In 2010, without really understanding what it was, I was going to buy $300 worth of Bitcoin but talked myself out of it...

5points

Yuffa Kinazzo 2 years ago

Yep. Me too. It was a mystery and expensive for me at the time. An older guy that was painting on the job I was working at had a whole bunch and was going to teach me how to do it. I hope he's doing well now!

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Gianna 2 years ago

Started smoking cigs back in 2001. Stopped of course years ago but one of those things that I wish I never had. There was no reason that I did. I was depressed and lonely and wanted to do something rebellious.

3points

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