Adults from Reddit: What do you regret most from your teenage years?

Hmm, what do I regret most from my teenage years..

Well for starters, seeing kids grow up now makes me feel a bit better about my childhood and my teenage years. The things I was able to do, experience...kids today have no idea. Kids worry about phones and drama and whatever these days..back then our biggest worry was feeding out Tammagotchi's.

There's a lot of things I did in my teenage years. I was bullied, I became a bully, I was the popular kid, the unpopular kid, and then became the ghost kid. I knew everyone, but somehow not enough to stay popular. I don't know how a person could have so many friends yet practically none as the years went by. Teenage years are said to fly by, and they kind of did especially wasting years away with drugs and alcohol.

Come to think of it, my teenage weren't all that bad...I have stories for days and im only 21. The more I think about it though, some stories should not have been made. I've seen some horrible horrible things, been involved in stupidity, the list goes on.

When it comes to regret, I regret a lot of things. I regret helping out friends when they needed me the most, I regret hurting my family because i was in 'need' of self medicating. I regret stealing a candy alligator out of my friends backpack in grade 2.

The thing I regret the most, is being too scared to do something about my desires. I've had 4 crushes in my lifetime. None of them will ever measure up to crush #1, and none will ever hurt as much as #4. It's hard to live a life with constant comparisson goggles on, and the worst part is knowing I had control of the car..and I made the wrong turn.

Even though my teenage regret is what usually drags me down each and every day, the good memories like to pop up every once and and while and brings a smile with it.

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