What is the thing you regret believing in the most in your past?

Question

It could be santa, relationships, god, heaven, conspiracy theories, new age things...
Say what you believed in and why you stopped believing and why you find it silly now that you look back.

Answer 1

The immortality of youth. I believed it would go on forever. It felt that way. The days seemed to drag. I spent too much time sleeping late or just hanging out doing nothing. What I wouldn't give to have some of that wasted time back.

Answer 2

Yeah, youth full immortality defiantly. But the most is the religious mindset I had. I grew up believing the end was truly near, and that god could only do great things with you if you were really bad first. So I strove to be bad, which I was really bad at because I am a genuinely good natured person. I am 35 and I'm doing OK but it still messes with my head a bit.

Answer 3

-I believed my parents had my best interests at heart.
-They tried hard to be good parents, but sometimes even when you try hard, you're still awful. My parents are people who should not have had children. I would never say that to them, they have enough pain in their lives, but it's the truth.
-I don't think it was silly to hope my parents would do more good than harm raising me, but it was painful realizing even though they tried to be loving, no matter how hard they tried it often came out horribly wrong. I could take a lot of physical violence, it was the mental beatings that took their toll.

Answer 4

There is something that I regret..perhaps, it was believing in a relationship? Putting my trust too easily and quickly in people. I guess last time, I thought that we could trust people, get along with them but now I feel that we should not 'give ourselves' too easily, I mean put our trust too fast before we really know the person first. So yes, I guess last time, I trusted too fast perhaps? It is not really silly as it was something painful and regretful. Hmm, when we could not get along, that was when I knew I should not give myself too fast. (it is not a dating relationship, if that was what you all thought..)just thought to clarify.

Answer 5

I used to believe that all white people were evil! "White parents are not the only people in America that teach their children racism."

What I've come to find out is, some people are just evil and useless, But there is no way to tell who its going to be based on their race. Ive met worthless Whites, Blacks and Spanish people. Ive also met genuinely good people of all races.

What i learned was to treat people how they treat me! Also to expect the best from folks because if you give them a chance they usually will impress you!

Answer 6

For a while as a kid, I believed that popularity meant you had lots of really good friends and then you were happy. I remember being in high school and talking to a friend- she was telling me about another girl we both knew I will call her Jane- she said to Me Jane used to not wear certain clothes then she started wearing different clothes and now she is popular. Jane used to not swear, now she does and she is popular, Jane used to not drink, now she does and she is popular. In essence Jane used to have Values and now that she turned her back on them, she is popular. It was at that moment that I realized that popularity wasn't what it was cracked up to be. The popular kids were only your friends as long as you conformed to their ways. I began to realize that that crowd, told you how to act, what to believe, how to dress and who you could be friends with. They did not promote people being individuals or having any kind of values. I decided that I did not want to strive to be popular anymore. BTW now Jane is not happy- she ended up spending years on drugs, I think that she has not completely kicked that habit. She let others tell her who she should be- she has never really had a moment to discover who she really is.

Or I was never the AV nerd in school nor was I part of the wierd gothic crowd. I just made friends with whoever I wanted to and I stood for my values and morals. I guess if there is anything that I regret believing it is that popularity meant you were happy.

Answer 7

My mother passed away in 1942 when I was 7 years old and my father who had left about 3 years before did not want to stay in contact with me for whatever reason or even tell me why. Shortly after my mothers death I became very sick and my father did come to see me in the hospital but remained at the foot of the bed. I remember well that he showed no love towards me.

My life went on with my maternal Grandmother as my guardian. She was 60 years older than me and could not offer a lot of social guidance for me so it remained very difficult for me to have a normal advancement in life, I had no goals nor did I have the discipline to want one... I just wanted to cruise through.

I became an alcoholic, 3 marriages and an undeveloped social life. I survived by accepting who and what I was and to like myself even though I felt that I was never given credentials to whom I was.

In 2000 my daughter found my fathers relatives through the Internet and I visited them 2 years later and they never knew of my existence.

I learned that my father had married soon after my mother died and his new wife was partly instrumental in me not being a part of his life. He died in 1986 a man of religion. and respected in his church.

After all these years of hope and prayer and trying to find the meaning to my being, I discovered that my father did not want
a relationship with me because we were commoners... plebeians... and my father was hung up on his Aristocratic heritage.

My ancestor was of royalty and finance minister to Louis XV.

Earlier on I had come to the realization that I was a realist and religion was not working for me and that what happened 24/7/365 was real and had very little to do with religion.

Answer 8

I regret knowing a man 3 years older than me loved me and did a lot of things to humiliate me even after I left him...

Answer 9

That life was in any way fair.

It's not, and now that I am aware of that, it's ok.

But man those first couple of lessons were rough!

Answer 10

Prince charming
I´ve met a "few good men"