Sometimes, you have to put yourself out there more.
I regret not socializing and making friends. I should have been more outgoing and initiate conversations but instead I was waiting for other people to come to me. They never did. High school was a miserable time because I didn’t have any friends. I feel like I’ve lost the best years of my life.
We all pay for the damage we’ve done.
Not taking better care of my teeth. Some of my teeth are in pretty bad shape now and I know I’m going to need a lot of dental work.
Relatable.
I was too self conscious to speak. I had crippling social anxiety. Even when people were nice to me, I couldn’t reciprocate conversation or just normal human interaction. I lost the friends I did make because I couldn’t even handle hanging out with them I was so anxious.
Looking back, yeah I’m kind of a weird person. As an adult, it doesn’t matter. I just do what I want and if people like it they like I, if they don’t, they don’t. I make friends. I hang out with people if I want too. I just wish I had friends from high school like many others.
To be honest, that’s disgusting.
One time at the mall with my best friend, we found a backpack at McDonald’s. We looked through it and it contained a few textbooks but nothing with anyone’s name on it to identify the person who lost it. I’m not sure how, or why, but my first thought was “I’ll poop into a big Mac container and put that into the backpack!” I guess I thought it would make my friend laugh… and it did!! Anyway we left the backpack where we found it and like a half hour later went back and saw that it was gone. I told my friend “ha! Somebody stole that backpack and is gonna find quite the surprise!” Then I realized that it was probably the kid who lost it who came back and got it. I felt soooooo bad!! I just kept thinking about some poor kid bringing it home and leaving it in his room all weekend without looking inside and having to explain to his parents why there was a turd filled BigMac in his school bag. It’s been over twenty years and I still feel bad when I think about it.
Your health is your wealth.
Not taking care of my health. I was a heavy teen but I carried my weight really well (bomb ass hour glass shape for the win. Tits and ass to spare). My mother tried to get me physically active but I wouldn’t hear it because I didn’t think I needed it. Ate and drank whatever I wanted as much as I wanted.
Now I’m in my 30s and FIGHTING every damn day to lose weight to stop these health issues that have cropped up over the last five years (horrible joint pain, high blood pressure, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol to name a few). Lost 89lbs over two years and I still have another 100lbs to go. Could have handled this shit when I was younger..