What was the biggest mistake you have ever made?

Question

Mine was to get married so soon! Sex was in my mind at the time and my family were so strict at the time! lol

Answer 1

Like you, I feel one of my poorest decisions was marrying too young (age 19)...alas, that was many years ago (I'm 42 now) and he's part of my past. I wish I'd been wise enough back then to wait though....

Answer 2

Moving into our first rental house.... It needed to be cleaned... BADLY, it needed to be painted and there was mold in the 1/2 bath... It took her 6 months to fully take of things, like the A/C units that didn't work, replacing the walls in the 1/2 bath, repairing the leaky roof, replacing screens on the windows... My how the list goes on! But, it was a VERY good lesson in our lives that next time we may not need a fancy house, but we're getting one that is clean, has A/C & heat... PERIOD. LOL Of course the reason it all got fixed?! My Mom flew out for the birth of our first child, and we were moving in the next couple of days. I told the landlord what kind of Mom I had and that she would be here Friday.... Everything was done by Thursday night! LOL This woman didn't want my Mom going to the rental board or to the city about how she does business.... Had my husband and I knew a little better or talked a bit more to out family, we could have had it done the first week we were there! I guess it is just ONE of those life's lessons that you get to learn and makes you wiser from it! LOL

Answer 3

Yes that's one thing but I call it an honest mistake. My biggest mistake that I could say, that still haunts me until now, was when I'm in junior high. I wrote a really nasty letter (too personal, below the belt, foul words and totally unacceptable)about my Math teacher. I never intended it to be read by anyone, what I did was,I tore it out from my notes pages and slid it inside my pocket. Forgetting that it was there all the time, my Math teacher approached me and told me to empty out my pocket. He suspected that I was hiding some notes for cheating. Then you know what happens next. My parents got a call and I got suspended for a week. I felt so small and stupid.

Answer 4

i assume it became dropping the "I" area of me. I forgot that I had the capability and the potential to stand on my own legs, proud and tall... That I had a voice of my own and that the full international became waiting to hearken to it :D. while my ex broke up with me, i became shattered and broken. It became an exceedingly stable component with the aid of fact i found out that i shouldn't in any respect be too based on truthfully every physique, and that my desires are what i'm right here for particularly. That relationship led to such dirt and crap, friendship seems to be the only clean component in life... and that i in basic terms wanna save it that way. I easily have mind-blowing pals, and all my rigidity is long previous. i will sense the version well-known, i'm plenty extra helpful and plenty extra solid. adventure is a problematical instructor; she provides the exams first and the lesson afterwards. yet surprisingly, this methodology of coaching sinks the lesson deeper into our blood extra effective than any way else.

Answer 5

The thing that I regret to this day is this:
Very tough to talk about, but here goes.

My sister inlaw was diagnosed with ovarian cancer several years ago. When I found out, I was in shock and so scared.
She endured a couple sugeries and then lots of chemo.
But she was eventually terminal.
I was so devistated. I didn't know what to do. I was so afraid and didn't know what to say or do.
I thought that she needed time to be with my brother and her kids and I wanted to give them the time to spend as a family.
I have to tell you, it was one of the most devistating things to ever happen to my family and for sure to me.
I regret not going down to see her more especially before she got really sick and was dying.
But when she started to go down really fast I was there for a couple weeks and we had a good heart to heart talk.
But I will as long as I live, I will always regret not being there more. The last several weeks of her life I was there, but I wish that I had done more and spent more time with her before she became so ill.
My lesson? Live life with your full passion and do EVERYTHING that you ever dreamed of doing.
Tell those you love each and every chance, how much you love them.
It is the simple things, spending time doing basic things that
hold the most value and memories.
If you ever find out someone is sick, spend time with them, in simple ways, you will never regret that.

Answer 6

jeez....so many choices, so little time....

I guess the biggest mistake I feel that I ever made was having an abortion. I am not against others having one at all, it's their own choice. But for ME, I wouldn't do it again.

At the time (early 1980's) I was told by the clinic workers that it was just a 'lump of cells' and didn't have human features. Then some years later I saw pics of fetal development, and knew that I had been lied to. If I had to do it over again, I would have the baby and give it up for adoption instead.

Answer 7

answer unclear , ask again later.
edit: Trying to put my emotional and social life on hold until I had achieved the kind of stability and financial success that reason and prudence said were required to be a successful adult and parent. It doesn't work that way. Logic and financial security are no predictors of future success. Its just something you have to grow into. On the job training is all that really exists for this.

Answer 8

My biggest mistake would have to be cheating on my fiance.
I was told by a mutual friend that he was cheating on me, and I childishly thought, "Two can play that game!". I left my fiance to be with this guy, who I only saw twice after I left. I felt so empty after that. Turns out, my fiance wasn't cheating, the "friend" just told me that because he wanted to sleep with me...and in my stupidity I fell for it.
The grass is not always greener on the other side....

Answer 9

Me too. I got married too soon, and to the first woman I ever made love to.

Answer 10

Got married the second time.