Mistakes are a common part of life. Some teach us valuable lessons, while others leave lasting scars. A user asked the forum, “What is the worst mistake of your life?”
GETTING DEGREES
“Working hard in getting three useless degrees. I fell into the trap of believing that high grades and multiple degrees = good, stable, high-paying jobs. Lmao. Looking back, I can’t believe I was so naive.”
DRINKING
“Switched from beer to vodka, spent the next 12 years drunk. Three years sober.”
ISOLATING FROM REAL-WORLD
“I have many, but the worst could be isolating myself from the real world to the point I started to experience symptoms of psychosis.”
NOT SAVING
“Not putting money away for savings early enough. Start early!!! Make it automatic!!”
TRUSTING A SUPERVISOR
“Trusting a supervisor and believing that people at my job will “do the right thing.”
MARRYING THE WRONG PERSON
“Getting married. Or “marrying the wrong person” would be more accurate, I guess.
We got married in 2001 and just divorced in April, but I left her (for the last time) in 2015 after getting solid proof that she had been cheating. She now has four kids by four different guys. Three of them were born while we were together, and just one is mine. Tip of this depressing iceberg, unfortunately.”
TRUSTING MY MOM WITH MY FINANCES
“Letting my mother have complete control of my finances when I got my first job. She stole everything from me.”
HELPING PEOPLE
“Trying to help people that didn’t deserve it.”
SMOKING
“Smoking my first cigarette. No doubt.”
LEAVING THE GATE OPEN
“I left a gate open, and a puppy died.
I’ll never forgive myself.”
CHOOSING A WRONG MAJOR
“Choosing the wrong major in university, and now I’m stuck in my career.”
NOT TREATING MENTAL ILLNESS
“Years of untreated mental illness.”
COCAINE
“Doing a line of cocaine in 2017. By 2020 I was a full-fledged addict. I have 14 months clean today.”
TREATING WIFE AND SON BADLY
“Being mean to my wife and son when I was younger.
We got married at 18, and I was just immature and was always taking my job home and just getting upset over really nothing.
We’re still married after 32 years, and over the past several years, I have come to realize how lucky I have them in my life and will do anything for them.”
NOT PAYING OFF MY MORTGAGE
“Not paying off my mortgage 17 years ago when I had the money. Instead, I used it to renovate my house to add two bedrooms and a den. At the time, I thought it was more important for each of my four kids to have their own room (they were sharing two each before then) and a bigger family room.
I’m kicking myself because I had used the money to pay off the mortgage. Instead, I’d have had an extra $3000 a month in my pocket. I could have saved up that money and extended my house a few years later.”
GOING TO COLLEGE WHEN THERE IS NO CLARITY
“Going to college when I didn’t know what I wanted to do. Went because it was “what we were supposed to do.” I went to a magnet high school, so we were never educated about professional certificates or given the tools to start our own business.
We were just shuffled into college because we were a “gifted” school. I even distinctly remember toone of our teachers pointing to some of the construction workers out the window and telling us, “That’s what happens when you don’t go to college.” Now I have my degree, way too much debt, and I’m not even working in the field I got my degree in. Thanks, brainwashing!”
CARING TOO MUCH ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE THINK
“Caring too much about what people think.
A lot of this is due to good Ole anxiety, but I missed out on a lot of experiences and friendships just because I was afraid to let people know too much about me.”
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