“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret

Everybody makes mistakes, and it’s unreasonable to expect anyone to be perfect. Human error is natural; we just have to do our best to learn from our mistakes and try to avoid making any that will have irreversible consequences. Unfortunately, however, many of us have made a decision or two that we greatly regret and would take back in a heartbeat if we could.

Reddit users have recently been opening up about the worst mistakes they’ve ever made, so we’ve gathered some of their most heartbreaking stories below. From getting terrible injuries to severing important relationships, these recollections might not be easy to read, but they’re important reminders to think before we speak and act.

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“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Lighting that first cigarette.

HellxHoundxX , Lgh_9/pexels Report

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237points

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Satan Laughs 5 months ago

Absolutely needs to be higher… so hard to even start to think about a plan to quit.

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“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Mistaking long term coworkers as friends. They are not.

SmileBulky2705 , CoWomen/pexels Report

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177points

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Julia Mckinney 5 months ago

I learned that one too.

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“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Not watching a movie with my dad before he died from cancer.

My dad was months into his chemo treatments at this point, and he just asked me one day if I wanted to watch some old movies with him for a bit. I declined and said I needed to work on school stuff. I was living at home at the time, and I was taking about 15 hours of classes, so I was generally busy, but not then. It tore me apart to see my dad that way. The d***s had been rough on him, and it pained me to see him like that. My dad passed maybe a month or two later, and it is still to this day my biggest regret. We both loved movies, and I would give anything to go back and watch anything with him. I still randomly have moments of despair thinking about it, and I know he would not want me to continue beating myself up, but it's hard.

Don't have regrets like me. Spend those precious moments with your loved ones.

Guy_Fawkz , Andrea Piacquadio/pexels Report

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158points

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karen snyder 5 months ago

This is the validation I need right now. At this moment, I am getting ready to sleep on the couch perpendicular to my sleeping mother who is recovering from one of a series of serious surgeries that will hopefully give me another year with her. We have watched a dozen movies this week; movies that we enjoyed together over my life. I had to quit my job and leave my city life to be here and take care of her 24/7. Thank you for reminding me how much this matters.

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I didn’t ask my parents enough questions about their lives before they died.
When people die, their history dies with them. Stories about them, what their lives were like, what their parents were like. It all disappears.

Ask your parents and grandparents all the things, you won’t regret it.

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AnnaB Premium 5 months ago

And I recommend having them record their stories/history. The sound of their voices are the first thing you lose.

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“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret I jumped in the shallow side of the pool. Was drinking and thought it was the deep end. Tried to do a front flip and smacked my head on the bottom. Came up reaching for my head and my face flopped into my hand. I quickly held it in place against my skull and got out of the pool. We wrapped my head in a towel and I threw up. The ambulance was there within 10 minutes. They sent 2 ambulances and a fire truck and there were 10+ responders. I think they might have been bored and wanted to see the carnage lol. Anyways at the hospital my neck started hurting and they did a scan X-ray and nothing was broken, however my face was spilt from the bridge of my nose straight up my forehead then goes to the left a couple inches. Ended up getting 20 stitches to hold my forehead together and 20 staples on my head. Healed pretty good. Now I just have a scar people are scared to ask me about. I'm extremely lucky, I was able to walk out and go home about four of five hours later. I've heard so many stories since this happened to me and now I am extra cautious around pools. So yeah don't dive drunk.

d3athr1d3r , Ionela Mat/pexels Report

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142points

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Avoidance_Panda 5 months ago

If someone just asks in passing, I hope you've got a mysterious back story, or wildly outrageous story to tell ...

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“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Talking to police without a lawyer. Don’t do that, kids….

dick-nipples , RDNE Stock project/pexels Report

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137points

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Donna Peluda 5 months ago

I had a public defender in a case of police abuse. Little did I know he got a lot of work from the local police and screwed me over big time. Eventually I hired a good lawyer and he screwed the police. Upside was I got the chance to kick the xith out of a corrupt cop and get away with it. He as later expelled from the force. He was so corrupt that his colleagues declared against him regarding what happened that night.

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“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret I worked at a Marine Mammal Rescue Center in Alaska.

It could be really fun and rewarding, but the work itself was *anything* but glamarous.

During the training, we were told emphatically "when approaching a rehabbing sea lion from the front, you have to hold your breath until you can get to the side - their breath will knock you out." We laughed but the teacher said "oh I'm not kidding"

Should have taken it more seriously...

My first week there, I approach a sea lion we're rehabbing and when I'm about 5 feet away, it opened its mouth wider than my head and let out a 4-second-long belch, as sea lions are known to do.

I immediately fell to the ground puking. Couldn't think straight for 2 minutes and felt nauseous most of the rest of the day, and had to go home early.

**Still** feel sick thinking of it.

dry6f , Molnár Tamás Photography™/pexels Report

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124points

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Lord Tubbington 5 months ago

TIL

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“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Trusting the wrong person with important secrets.

Ok_Composer_6652 , Ba Tik/pexels Report

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124points

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Julia Mckinney 5 months ago

Woo boy, I've done that.

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I worked in child care and suspected abuse. I went to the director of the childcare center and asked if I should call CPS, and she said no. I didn’t call CPS.

The little girl died about a month later. She was 2.5.

I will never forgive myself for trusting someone else over my own gut judgement. Worst mistake I ever made.

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124points

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whodunnitfan2013 5 months ago

No guarantee CPS would have done anything, sadly.

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“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret When I was a kid we used to ride our bikes to the top of a hill and peddle as fast as we could down to the beginning of a sidewalk that was pushed up by tree roots and we would hit super sick jumps off them. No helmet. My bikes front wheel and handle bars became loose from the abuse and when I landed my handles were straight but the wheel sent me right into a tree. Went over the handle bars head first and hit the tree. Knocked out cold. From what people tell me my personality changed as did my penmanship, grades and everything.

Legitimate_Dare6684 , Darcy Lawrey/pexels Report

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109points

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Kari Panda 5 months ago

That’s why I hate the "We never wore helmets as kids an we‘re fine!“ people. There are more than enough cases where people are, in fact, not fine.

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#11

“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Took an antibiotic for a possible infection I never had to begin with that the doctor gave me. Didn’t realize the medication was banned in certain countries and has a black box warning. Doc called a week later after I had taken it for 6 days and says I actually didn’t have an infection. Antibiotics were never necessary. I now am disabled and have full body small fiber neuropathy from it among other things at 25 years old. It affects my vision, bladder, muscles, walking, etc. nerve damage all over. Had this for 2 years now, life is a struggle unfortunately.

Magnifnik0 , Ron Lach/pexels Report

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96points

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Cecilia Herrera 5 months ago (edited)

I hope you sued him for malpractice.

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“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Got stuck on my balcony before work one morning. Door latched as I shut it. Was approximately 6 feet off ground, so I decided to jump off. Landed on my feet. Grass was wet, feet slipped...

Fractured three vertebrae, spent nine months in a hospital bed.

tastyNips , Andrea Piacquadio/pexels Report

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92points

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Kari Panda 5 months ago

Jumping off things is truly more dangerous than one might think. I once jumped off a tree trunk - maybe two feet off ground? It was fall and the ground was covered in leaves. There was a small hole, barely bigger than a foot, in the ground right where I jumped. Foot ligaments destroyed, hospital, surgery…

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#13

“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Giving all my best in my last company, had almost no much social life, I was a workaholic , I was like the best developer, thinking it would all result to sth eventually got laid off 😅💀.

scot_2015 , cottonbro studio/pexels Report

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Jennik 5 months ago

I have yet to encounter a company that has a sense of loyalty to its employees.

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#14

“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Got offered an internal promotion for double salary job as a javascript developer (I was PHP mainly at time) at UK FTSE 100 company and declined because I was humble about my skills/didn't want to cause issues.

Now I'm 8 years wiser and realise no one knows what they're doing and I would've been fine with 20 hours on udemy.

jhgordy , Nicola Barts/pexels Report

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78points

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Robert T 5 months ago

Reminds me of a Dilbert cartoon. PHB: "I'm shipping you to Elbonia to teach COBOL", D: "But I don't know COBOL", PHB "Maybe you can learn it on the plane".

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#15

“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret I skipped a class for organic chemistry in college before finals. Didn't get the memo that final exams would be given in a different room. Showed up 45 minutes late and my professor wouldn't let me in. I failed the class and nearly failed out of college that semester, I was on academic probation after that.

rpm12390 , Monstera Production/pexels Report

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74points

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Axel Tojo 5 months ago

At my university we had rules for such things. Noone could leave the first hour, but late people could come in the first hour. After that the doors only swung outwards.

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“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret I made many mistakes growing up, but here’s one that stands out the most.

In early high school, I hurt people emotionally through targeted bullying and social exclusion. I was picked on for many years prior to this, so it was mostly redirected anger. I hated the world and most of the people around me.

However, this changed during the later years of high school and I started accepting people and vice versa. I’m not sure how this came about. I’m in my thirties now and a completely different person. I get emotional thinking of all the times I’ve made people’s lives hell for no reason, and it’s hard to forgive myself for it.

If you are going or went through a tough time in school as a result of bullying, I’d like to apologise on behalf of the bullies. Most of them will certainly regret it at some point.

jebiga_au , Keira Burton/pexels Report

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74points

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Kari Panda 5 months ago

That depends on the person. I met one of my bullies years later and he regretted nothing.

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#17

“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Talked a little about this in other posts, but my decision to stay and try to help my mom. After my grandmother died my cousin and I were set to inherit a house, but we gave our halves to her. At the time I was living in Europe, in Budapest, for 3.5 years. I was so close to residency. Then I saw she was having trouble financially when I came to visit for a family reunion. I had a return ticket, my jobs, but I f*****g stayed because I felt bad. We set agreements, that I would pay half of everything and then later give her a bit extra so I can save to help my fiance come here. That in order for this to work, I'd like to live in the house so I'm not paying rent somewhere plus half of the bills (and I wanted to be around the dogs, which I also take care of). Then she took advantage of this by buying more things and investing in the house, which she agreed to sell because she can't afford it without someone helping her. Immediately after I didn't have a way back, things changed. She hated my now ex partner and would demand time and time again we break up, even though she was nothing but kind to her. She decided she wanted more money immediately. She has threatened to [unalive] herself by putting a gun to her head, pushed me, hit me, tried to choke me, because she would start conflicts and not let me walk away, or didn't like what I had to say. She's tried to cut me off from other parts of the family that know and want to help me. I lost everything because of this decision, but I'm slowly rebuilding, and I think next year I'll be able to find my way back, maybe to Prague this time, or back to Budapest. I don't know, I just want the life I had back, and this time she won't get to be a part of it.

PanzerFoster , Nikolaos Dimou/pexels Report

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72points

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Magenta Blu 5 months ago

I trusted my mother too. I foolishly gave her a second chance (which is my biggest regret) and she destroyed my life, my career, my health and my family and I'm still paying her debts a decade after. The worst of all? I didn't even want to give her any chance, but everyone make me feel guilty because everyone loves their mothers right? And I was pregnant, so I let them convince me to start maternity with the right foot and stablish a better relationship with my own mother. Huge mistake. Damn

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#18

“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Quitting college to take a management promotion at my fast food job.

emilyholt31 , Kampus Production/pexels Report

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66points

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Kirk Littlefield 5 months ago

I did this with the opposite result. I hated college and my chosen field is obsolete now. I quit, became a chef by working my way up from a part time dishwasher and now have a well paying career that I absolutely love.

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#19

“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Driving drunk... Blacked out... Car totalled by train.

Don't drink and drive.

MiliTerry , Taras Makarenko/pexels Report

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66points

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moggie63 5 months ago

Or drink and dive.

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#20

“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Bring on a sleazy business partner whose shenanigans put me under.

Even twenty-five years later, if he stepped in front of my car, I wouldn't even think of tapping the brakes.

AnybodySeeMyKeys , Juris Freidenfelds/pexels Report

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64points

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KatSaidWhat 5 months ago

I might accidentally hit the accelerator trying for the brakes...

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#21

“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret I let go someone who was really good for me because of chronic depression and insecurities and now here I am, alone because of it.

TrixieLurker , Khoa Võ /pexels Report

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63points

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Chaotictomybone 5 months ago

I can relate to this. Even after 5 years I still think about that person, he is getting married this year so yay me...

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#22

Not using sunscreen.

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63points

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DennyS (denzoren) 5 months ago

Also, moisturizer.

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#23

Not going to the doctor when I should have. I noticed that I was having issues standing up. I thought that now that I'm in my 30s. This is normal. Months go by and not only was I having trouble trying to stand up. My left hip and leg was hurting like hell with every step.

I decided to keep working because I lived alone at the time and I had to make bills. After 8 months of suffering and pain. Climbing on and off a forklift. I had enough. Every step I was fighting a tear from shedding.

After a month of x-rays and MRIs the doctor's found it. A tumor had made itself a unwanted guest on my spine and it was pinching a cluster of nerves. This was in 2021 and covid was in full swing. When the doctor told me they had to do emergency surgery. Part of me was to scared to say yes. The other part of me was ready to get this over with and not be in pain anymore. I'm grateful that half won.

They got the tumor out. It was benign. So I didn't have to worry about cancer. They also told me that if I waited any longer. I would have been paralyzed from the wast down on my left side.

I'm dyslexic and have a hard time reading. So I never went to school after high-school. All I've ever known was working physical labor jobs. I love working with my hands. Now I have to stand and sit at random times. I have can't walk to far without a walking stick. Even with that. I'm limited on how far I can walk. Sitting in a vehicle, and getting in and out of them is painful.

The only thing that make me happy is my motorcycle. The seat was custom made for my nerve pain. So it doesn't hurt to sit in it. But as of now. I have no sorce of income. My insurance on my bike has lapsed. Now all I have is VRChat. I am a extroverted person. So sitting at home all day is driving me mad. I take medication for the pain. But it doesn't get rid of it completely. It just dulls it some.

Because I didn't go to the doctor when I needed to I'm now jobless. I lost the home I was renting. I have no sorce of income. I can't ride my bike. I can't do office work because of my dyslexia (I have tried just to try and make some money). I'm trying to get on disability. But the government is dragging there feet on it. Even with a layer. I'm useless. I'm jobless. No women will talk to me.

My life is a lonely hell just because I didn't go to the doctor when my body told me to.

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62points

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Magenta Blu 5 months ago

I just can't afford dental care. I'm sure i will loose my teeth soon, but right now it is surviving or dental care.. so toothless people still survive, right?

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#24

“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Insisted my fiancé and I should take a cruise together when she wanted to stay home. She had a polyp which was bothering her nasal passage.

Turns out it wasn't a polyp, but rhabdomyosarcoma. Diagnosis was further delayed due to COVID, costing her her life.

alduin_no , cottonbro studio/pexels Report

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62points

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BenyA. 5 months ago

you can't blame yourself for that man. You obviously wanted to give her a good vacation, and you didn't knowingly ignore then unknown complications. When my dad was sick I switched places with my uncle to check in on him one particular day, and when my uncle was getting back home after he slipped and hit his head, ended up passing that very night from head injury. If I had simply shown up instead of him, he still might have been ok. Took me a while to let that go. Don't do that to yourself

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#25

Getting breast implants. 6k, scars, scar tissue, permanently damaged nerves. Got them removed 3 years later. 2k saggy boobs. Pepperoni nipples and side boob fat.

I had decent boobs I just got peer pressured by friends who were getting their done.

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DennyS (denzoren) 5 months ago

Peer pressure is the worst.

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#26

“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Dorky guy in our graphics lab at school was trying to convince us to buy Apple stock as we struggled with our POS PowerPC 6300s. "No man, they're rehiring the CEO they fired! He started the company, he's like...visionary! He's gonna resurrect them!". Riiiiiight.

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57points

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Avoidance_Panda 5 months ago

That's like me and Nvidia, we were all blown away with the unreal engine and what Nvidia could possibly do. Then even when crypto became a thing and we were using graphic cards to mine it STILL didn't occur to me....

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#27

I inherited 150,000$ at 18 and blew it all on d***s and stupid things.

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56points

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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 5 months ago

You can never have too many ducks.

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#28

Trying to be someone I'm not to impress people. Turns out, being yourself is way cooler.

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55points

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Remi (He/Him) 5 months ago

I thought I needed to be normal to get friends when I was a kid/teen too. I was even told I would be more liked if I wasn't so... me. Trying to act all the time is exhausting and people will actually like you more if you don't appear fake, turns out

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#29

Listened to a teacher that said I wasn’t smart enough for Uni. Been questioning and doubting myself ever since.

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DragonsFox 5 months ago

Teacher here. Don’t listen. You are one thousand percent smart enough. It might be harder for you than others, but professors love to help their students!

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#30

I once tried to microwave an entire frozen pizza and ended up with a fiery frisbee of regret.

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Jesse 5 months ago

"Fiery frisbee of regret" sounds hilarious though

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#31

Tried to raise a child while having a severe untreated mental illness for 12 years.

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50points

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Karina 5 months ago

Hope this turned out well in the end ❤️ they seem to have some insight now.

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#32

Leaving the Coast Guard after four years. I'd be retired with a full pension and still have been able to have another career.

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48points

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Sunny Day 5 months ago

Used to work with a guy who quit the Air Force after 16 years (4 short of retirement.) Why? Because the AF was transferring him, and his church told him he needed to stay here with them.

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#33

Not spending more time with my grandparents.

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DennyS (denzoren) 5 months ago

A little subjective, for me it's probably just one of them.

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#34

“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Petsitting for a pet fox.

I pet-sit for a living and came across an opportunity to get 10x the money one weekend by petsitting for a pet fox while the owners were on vacation.

It *was* super cute, but now it's a year later, and my car **still** smells like fox.

No idea how that's even possible, the fox was never in the car.

Can't take friends on rides anymore :(.

tyneri , Joseph Yu/pexels Report

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38points

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Cecilia Herrera 5 months ago

Did he mark your car as his territory?

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#35

“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Sold 83 bitcoins in 2013......

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36points

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#36

Student loans. Especially realizing that you never needed college in the first place to make it.

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Caroline Nagel 5 months ago

Learn a trade!

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#37

“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret When I was 14? Maybe? I went to use the bathroom, like any normal time. I pissed, wiped, flushed, washed my hands, and walked back to my room. Now this toilet has a habit of making that noise toilets make after you flush, but for about 2 minutes longer than normal. Nothing ever happened, till that night when my brother came running into my room telling me the whole living room and hallways was flooding and the toilet is overflowing and won’t stop running. I walked out my room to see my mom freaking out. Now for some context, my family is lower class/ middle class. My parents worked and they owned the home so we were lucky to have a roof to live under but we never had extra money to go out to eat or go to movies or even vacations. We always ate very basic and easy meals so my parents could afford the home and bills. I never even left my home state till I was 16 almost 17. My father also has a massive spending problem which leaves money very tight for my family. This was almost 9 years ago mind you.

Seeing the way my mom was reacting, seeing her crying and on her knees and begging for life to just stop being s****y for her, left a permanent image in my head. The only other time I’ve seen my mom cry like this was christmas time (December 23, 2023) and that was being my dad left a [self-exit] note and took off. My mother was broken and that moment will forever haunt me. (He’s still alive, found him in time)

Now the whole house was soaked and flooding and my mom was freaking trying to turn the water off and get the shop-vac to suck up the water and crying and saying how she doesn’t know where she’s going to get the money to fix this and trying to figure out what bills she can push to pay for this. Yeah I never told her or fessed up to it. They think it was older brother and I let them think it. It stills haunts me and makes me want to cry thinking of her reaction to it.

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23points

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Susie Elle 5 months ago

I doubt this is anything one person did, but more the accumulation of plumbing issues with your bathroom visit being the straw that broke the camel's back. Nonetheless, I can imagine how awfult it must've been for everyone.

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#38

Sold Microsoft stock to fix my septic system in 1991. Multimillion dollar drain field. I feel sick every time I look at my yard.

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Data1001 5 months ago

What would you rather be: richer, or covered in s**t?

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#39

Got addicted to gambling.
(Lost my years of saving, my girlfriend, my job and the roof above my head becoming homeless).

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22points

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Kristy Nelson 5 months ago

I hope you have found help or you're finding help. It can be better.

3points

#40

Attempting to trim my own bangs the night before picture day. Instant regret and a lot of hats.

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22points

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Stu𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪ous! 5 months ago

This one is so relatable. 😭

13points

#41

I found a four bedroom house for $700k in my college town in California back in....2018 I wanna say? Debated buying it and putting in $50k for work then renting it out. Ultimately allowed myself to get talked out of it by friends and family.

House is now worth $2m. And average rents are $3K a month. Now I'm still renting with housing prices over $1m and interest rates at 7%.

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Bec 5 months ago

Family member wanted to buy a house in LA back in the early 2000s but her significant other wouldn't commit. She offered to have it all in her name and have him pay her rent.

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#42

Going to a non-denominational church/ Born Again church.
I spent 10 years of my youth in that place.
I built my belief system from them, but i doubted my faith because of them too.
Pretty much all my life's secrets were known by them. Turns out, they will use every single one of them against you once you leave.

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Virgil Blue 5 months ago

So scientology isn't the only one.

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#43

I cheated on the love of my life. ruined an amazing thing. first and last time i ever make that mistake.

edit: besides that one weird dude, thank you guys for the kind words. it’s not something i get to talk about with people in person much without getting judged, so it means a lot.

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Karina 5 months ago

There is always at least one wierd dude

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#44

Spending 11 years in retail. Seemed like a great idea at the time, better and less toxic than my previous seasonal job. I was dumb and believed that giving it my all and being devoted to the company would take me places. Got passed over for numerous promotions, got screwed over by 'friends' who didn't care who they had to step on to get themselves ahead, and ended up getting fired on a technicality over a decade in because a co-worker was gunning for my job. In retrospect it was the best thing that ever happened to me work-wise. I had been stuck in a rut and my self esteem had been so beat down I was convinced I didn't deserve better. Thank goodness I ended up in a job I love with great people. I just regret the time wasted.

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Sheena Leversedge Wood 4 months ago

I loved working in retail. the opportunities are very limited, but, despite really not being a people person, I loved it.

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#45

The worst mistake I ever made was missing my dad's final phone call. I didn't realize it would be the last time I could hear his voice.

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Data1001 5 months ago

It's pointless to beat yourself up. Any time we talk to someone, it could be the last time. Anything you do with someone, could be the very last time you'll do that together. We just don't know when the ball will drop. I could spout an aphorism like "enjoy every moment" but it's impossible to be that focused on every little thing in life. Best we can do, is the best we can do. Everything else is beyond our control.

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#46

Thinking love... Romantic love wasn't real. I broke his heart (turned down his marriage proposal) and tried so hard to ignore my feelings. He left to build a life elsewhere because I refused to believe in my feelings.
I spent most of my life in an abusive, coercive, nightmarish relationship, I feel like I deserved it, stupid really... I'm free now. The one man I've ever loved, and I recently reconnected.
20 years later, and I'm still in love with him.

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Stinky 5 months ago

I hear you, the love of my life i left at 18....still think of him often even though it has been many years - he was such a lovely person and loved me for me. He's married with 2 kids and seems happy and for that I'm glad.

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#47

Buying a brand new car. Quickly figured out that unless you are insanely rich no one can afford a brand new car. I certainly could not. Worst financial decision I ever made in my life by far.

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Data1001 5 months ago

Depends greatly on the kind of car you're buying. I've owned many used cars in my life, and when I was financially able to buy new, I was so glad that I did. Granted, I bought one of the most inexpensive makes and models available, but not having to worry if my car would start one day, or if it would suddenly break down on a road trip, or just cost me thousands in general maintenance, upkeep and repairs was such a relief.

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#48

Got drunk on my 20th birthday. Slept with a guy I met that night - losing my virginity and getting pregnant all in one lousy night. Second mistake was not having an abortion and keeping the baby. She is a good human being, but I basically traded my life for hers.

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Kari Panda 5 months ago

I hope the child never reads this…

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#49

“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret Oh, that's easy—trying to microwave a metal bowl. Spoiler alert: it does not end well.

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Julia Mckinney 5 months ago

So, here's a miracle. 2 weeks ago, I was heating my food up and had used a lightweight metal fork and a spoon to put it in my bowl. I then covered the bowl with a paper towel to avoid spatters and nuked it for a minute. I was gobsmacked when I got the bowl out and saw my fork in it. I googled it and found out that the paper towel covering the food/fork and the forks tines being tucked under the food made it a lot less conductive and wouldn't increase the heat as badly. I'll never do that again but good to know WHY it didn't cause a fire/blow up.

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#50

Lending money to a friend.

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Satan Laughs 5 months ago

Always GIVE money to family or friends. Do not expect repayment but also do not expect to finance their lifestyle. Unless they’re in jail and need bail money…

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#51

Letting my primary doctor take over for my urologist who was retiring. Missed diagnosing my prostate cancer early.

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#52

Ignoring a ruptured appendix for 5 days. By the time I went in I developed sepis spent 2.5 months in icu another month in skilled nursing because I had a breathing tube then 3 weeks inpatient rehab. I've never fully regained the strength in my legs had to go on disability .slowly getting better but had a 5 years stretch where I barely left the house. Basically missed a large chunk of children growing up.

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ADJ 5 months ago

How it is even possible to ignore ruptured appendix?

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#53

Got LASIK. Should have done a lot more research and learned how much more common complications are than they tell you.

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Remi (He/Him) 5 months ago

I don't understand how they're allowed to market a surgery without sufficient information. As someone who's going to have to go for cataracts surgery in about the next five years, I'm doing crazy research and as an over scarrer, there's probably gonna be some issues.

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#54

Move into a house my mil owns. It’s been a f*****g nightmare & we are stuck here bc we can’t afford to move out. And she won’t f*****g fix anything most of the time.

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Miriam Barber 5 months ago

Better than being homeless living under a bridge..... :(

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#55

I didn't pick a call because I didn't have her number saved at that time. It was a random girl from college, a classmate. Later that week, I came to know that she's in hospital and unconscious. I went to check on her, she had an accident, almost the same time when I got a call from her.

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DennyS (denzoren) 5 months ago

It can happen to anyone, I don't think this is your fault.

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#56

Going on Omegle as a kid- I haven’t recovered yet.

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Stinky 5 months ago

Had to look this up - it's an online chat app.

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#57

Deciding to have an abortion for the wrong reasons. I do not regret the abortion, but I hold a lot of resentment about how it happened.

I panicked as a teenager, rushed my ex through it, didn't even give him a chance to talk to me because I was so horrified at being talked about within my family and my relatives judging me and being the first to not only have a child outside of marriage.. but teen pregnancy was unfathomable to me. Im 28 now and them relatives are not a factor in my life and Im very bitter about how I rushed myself and my ex and basically trauma blocked it out my head because of the opinion of those who didn't matter.

The only opinions that mattered were mine and my partners and I didn't think about either. My ex suffered a lot with him mental health afterwards, not because he wanted to keep the baby, but how rushed, manic and honestly just selfish I was during it.

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Karina 5 months ago

Sounds like a real trauma responce from her, and not at all selfishnes

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#58

I went in business with my old brother. Who doesn’t know how to manage money to save his life. It ended up cost me financially for years. Never go into business with family!!!!!

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Kari Panda 5 months ago

I‘d rather say don’t go into business with stupid or careless people. Whether they’re family or not says nothing

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#59

I tried to prank my school by placing milk in the ceiling of each room. Well, I got most of them, but I made one mistake.

Our school already had leaking issues due to an excess amount of snow that would occur every year. It was the Midwest, so I think you get the idea.

The many janitors would occasionally check spots where mold was spotted or it had the occasional leak. It so happens that the milk carton had somehow broke from the milk expanding with how hot it was up there.

This I learned in science class and that would explain things later.

Some janitors either had rotten milk spilt all over them or it made a huge mess on the floor.

I was really trying to just make a bad smell, that worked but it also resulted in either exploding milk or just spilt milk.
I was never caught but f**k I felt guilty.

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Jessica SpeLangm 5 months ago

Yeah, personally I would be confessing, if I were you, because if there is lasting damage after you left that school because of your idiotic "prank", then you should be paying to repair the damage. Not make the janitors, who are already overworked as it is, try to fix something that wasn't naturally going to occur.

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#60

I told a guy it was okay to eat a piece of cheesecake at my good friend's wedding.

I was an out of town bridesmaid, so I wasn't aware that she had chosen cheesecake as her wedding cake.

She had a meltdown when she realized her guests were eating the "wedding cake" before she came down for the reception. It was all my fault bc I was the one who said "Sure" when someone asked me if they could eat it.

Okay so not the worst mistake I ever made in my life. But I'd never intend to screw up someone's wedding or reception on their special day.

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Kari Panda 5 months ago

If you‘re not the host, you should always check with the host before telling someone that something is or isn’t okay, ESPECIALLY at a wedding.

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#61

Marrying. Thank God I dumped his a*s.

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Magenta Blu 5 months ago

Not marrying. I regret this every. Single. Day.

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#62

Buying a used bmw.

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Stu𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪ous! 5 months ago

Why??

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Biggest Life Mistakes: One time I believed an AITA story on Bored Panda.

Jess Smith 5 months ago

Biggest Life Mistakes: I believed that all the stuff BP censors should be censored and isn't them being ridiculous. Not for long.

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Jose Ortiz 5 months ago

In 2008 i have a very secure career with a wireless company. I started right after h.s in 2001. In 2006 i started hanging with my co employees and developed a d**g habit. The company was such a great company that they offered me rehab at no cost and me believing i wasn't a addict i refused. 2 weeks later i was let go. Till this day i regret not taking that step because after words i fell in deeper depression. Fast forward to today.. ive been 4 years clean and at 41 years old im starting over in life. Im embarrassed at my age that i to restart but i am glad to be alive and im going to do the best i can to make the second half of my life as good as i can to make up for the lost years

Fussy1 5 months ago

Addiction is a disease. Overcoming any form of disease is an accomplishment of strength and courage. There is no embarrassment in starting over my friend. Enjoy, flourish, prosper, be happy, but most of all be true to yourself! Congrats to your New Beginning!!

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KimB 5 months ago

My biggest regret was turning down a premed scholarship. I would have been an awesome doctor. I love my career in medicine and I don't regret working but I could have really made a difference in patients lives more so than I have I think. Man if I had a Time Machine lol

I turned it down out of fear...I was afraid to be the one to tell someone their loved one passed away

Liz The Biz 4 months ago

I have a lot of regrets under my belt, but bar far the biggest was to ruin my life when I was 16 by throwing myself at the first guy who took an interest in me because I'd never had a boyfriend or even been kissed before and I was desperate. He turned out to be a violent, controlling, manipulative, abusive narcissist. Over time as the abuse became an everyday occurrence I became a shadow of my former self. I didn't feel happy, I didn't feel sad, I just felt completely numb and every night I prayed that I would go to sleep and never wake up again, Years later I did eventually pluck up the courage to leave but I wasted ten years of my life.

LynzCatastrophe 4 months ago

Got married young. Just don't get married. I had no idea he'd devolve into such a lazy, manchild, the older he got. On the plus side, these past few years I realized how capable and independent I truly am. I just wish it didn't cost me so many years of my youth and I lost track of how much money.

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Going to college.

day light 5 months ago

my biggest regret is getting into an online relationship when I was 14. basically, knew I was gay, but convinced myself I was bi just to date little mr manipulator for several years, break up, date a guy irl and realize I have no attraction to men when I can actually see them... and hear them... and deal with women being so damn attractive...

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