What is your biggest high school regret?

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77five · Accepted Answer

I often struggle with constant “what if’s” or “i should’ves” when I think back to high school. But then I remind myself that I literally tried everything to make those years my best. If anything, I wish I could have passed my driving text the first time when I tried at 18. But I have no regrets. I tried my best even though my school experiences were terrible. I couldnt get people to like me no matter what I did or didn't do. No matter how I looked. 🤷‍♀️

DizzyDesii · Accepted Answer

Losing my virginity. I wouldve preferred to wait til i was married or at least 18. But peer pressure and being taken advantage of is a bish. Next biggest regret is not standing up for myself sooner. I didn't stand up to people who took advantage of me until i was in 11th grade. I shouldve done so sooner like in 3rd grade. I thought switching schools would help but it didn't.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

I was in the cafeteria eating and ice cream bar and this girl I'd been madly in love with for the past 3 to 6 years (AND for the following 7 to 10 years!!) came over to me to ask for a lick or bite of it. I said yes but,. I was gonna give her the LAST bite because, stupid ass me was a germophobe at the time and didn't want to get her germs on it (Like, if I actually DID get the chance to kiss or fuck her, I wasn't gonna get her germs?) and then have to eat it with her germs on it! I ate it real fast to get it down to the last bite for her and, by that time, she either didn't want it anymore or figured I wasn't gonna give it to her! Had I let her have a bite before I was almost done, there's a very slight possibility that she would've become my girlfriend!! I doubt it but, I guess I'll never know! Unless, somehow, I run into her and ask or one of the people that was hanging out with her at that time and heard her report. But, I have a feeling one of them actually put her up to it to see what I'd do, kind of a teasing thing.

MarvelFan300 · Answer

I have a few:

1. Not socializing enough. In high school I was a quiet person and due to that I didn't get opportunities to hang out with other people during the weekends. Of course, I still had friends but I still would've liked to have more.

2. Not doing what I wanted. There were multiple things I wanted to do such as play football for my HS team or get to know my then crush better and possibly ask her out on a date.

3. Not focusing on my grades or preparing well enough so that I could go to college. I was a good student but there were times during my junior and senior year where I slacked off and didn't put as much effort like I should've and get the grades necessary to go to college. Plus I didn't have a true plan for how I would prepare or pay for college anyway.

If any high school students use this website and come across this answer, make the best of out of your high school experience even if you are a senior (use what's left of it). Of course high school isn't all that but still there are good memories that can be made.

dustybiker · Answer

My main group of friends from elementary school scattered as a new high school opened to relieve the *massive* over population numbers. (And still five/six kids didn’t have a desk per class, each class.)

Most of my friends from school went to the new school. I chose to go to the local one down the hill. I regret that. I sort of became a floater. Friendly with everyone but my best friends were at home in the neighborhood.

If I had followed my school friends I might have stuck with equestrian training and tried for pro sports. I would have had a completely different life.

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

I have none now. If i’d done things differently, i likely wouldn’t have found my current career. I can’t imagine being happier than i am with what i do now, even if i were earning more money.
Previously though, i did regret squandering my educational opportunities. I was a gifted student, and thereby lazy. I didn’t develop a work ethic early enough. I never did the homework but aced all the tests. Essentially graduating a ‘C’ student, but clearly capable of much more than my GPA could possibly indicate. That was before i found electrical work. I’m happy and have no lingering regrets.

ElloElloThere · Answer

Not allowing myself to have a social life before I dropped out.
I was so down on myself, and I feel like I could have had a lot of cool moments with friendly people I remember who were around at the time.

Instead I focused on the worst and just basically isolated myself from even my best friends.

And I wish I had been more honest about what I was dealing with too.
Maybe if I did I could've actually just been a teenager.

Idunno, I guess I just wish I had let people in more.

Distorted · Answer

This one time a pretty girl did all she could to drop signals for me. But I was either too young or too stupid to realize any of them at the time. (she was a bit older than me).
Now I realize all her signals and feel like an idiot every time I remember

BlueScorpio · Answer

Sigh.. I can't believe I'm admitting this, but it's never getting a year book. I had no idea this would come back to bite me in the ass but it did. Cause now I want to be noisy and look people up and see how they are doing in their lives lol might also help me remember what my elementary bestfriend last name was. I still think about her to this day but can't remember her last name..😔

dragoblack · Answer

Not trying to find romance. I was dealing with the aftermath of social abuse (physical, emotional, & psychological abuse) from students and teachers from kindergarten through half way of 8th grade, i didn't want to get near or close to anyone, in fear of the abuse continuing

PeteBy · Answer

Two spring to mind.

Not asking Donna out. Hottest girl in school and I found out later she felt the same as me.

Doing work experience for two weeks and deciding to quit school at 15. Teachers all said I could have gone to University but I had enough of school. So I ended up doing things the hard way. C'est la vie.

Anonymous · Answer

Grades don’t mean much in high school but my biggest regret was not having sex with all the girls who had crush on me. There were so many and I just was too insecure. Some literally threw themselves onto me sexually and I didn’t because I wanted my first to be special and I was scared of pregnancy. If I could go back in time I would be screwing all of them.

libsaretards · Answer

Mine is not spending more time with my friends. We are still friends to this day and would drop everything if one of us was in mortal danger, but the opportunities to hang out are less and less and one of them can no longer travel. As teens we take for granted that our friends will always be there so we feel no urgency to be more deliberate in our time with them. Now all 3 of us live in different parts of the country.

darline19 · Answer

rejected all the guys who interested in me , now my female friends are married, I'm not married yet. haha :')

melanieeeB · Answer

Not going out and just being a teen and doing stupid stuff... missing out on stupid experiences and instead befriending the girls with mental health problems and staying home and reading books.

Hardworkingguy · Answer

My biggest regret is not asking a beautiful black girl I used to like out on a date because I was afraid she wouldn't accept. A few years later I moved out of the country and I talked to her about that and she mentioned that you probably would have accepted because she thought I was a nice to be with.

TrillXHippy · Answer

Not continuing to try out for the basketball team in high school despite what I knew was going to happen. Never eat before you try out for anything so thank you to my parents. The fact that I can’t get that opportunity back makes my blood boil. Don’t try to school me about basketball and what isn’t going to happen cause I will always be right 99% of the time

ArrowheadSW · Answer

I don't regret all that much. I was busy studying and took hard classes to get into college, etc. However I think I would have done more socially. I didn't get involved with any social groups but I did have my circle of friends though.

Guy13 · Answer

Not listening to my soccer coach about university

Pinay_ako · Answer

High school was one of the best times of my life! No regrets 💕.

thisluv · Answer

I was very stupid in highschool and there was guy that liked me and we got together but I didn’t really treat him that well because I liked someone else. I feel bad for him. And I regret never making the move on the guy I liked, but I was super shy, even though I heard rumors he liked me.

Gent207-2 · Answer

That I wasted my time on dating instead of developing my competence, identity abd interests. I wish I had discovered magnet fishing sooner

Lionman95 · Answer

That I didn´t enjoy the time but instead tried to focus so much on not making mistakes and be good at school that I missed out on parties and making friends.

jennifer_bloom · Answer

I have no regrets. I got into the best school in the country, made lifelong friends and converted to Christianity which changed my life.

Lillylux22 · Answer

Not trying more things that were outside my comfort zone and not taking more chances

dreamstar72 · Answer

Actually lost half of my junior year and most of my senior year, due to a bad accident. However still graduated. So my regret was concerned a ghost during that timeframe.

Biancam13 · Answer

No regrets, loved high school and the friends I had there!!!

Anonymous · Answer

Not allowing other to hang out with me. I wasn't a happy teen in high school. I didn't want to be a burden to others so I told them I hated them hopeing they would go away and not waste their time. I wanted people to fear me. In the end I felt like sh*t for the way i treated others.

Sour-rose · Answer

Such a bitch who really didn't wanna take risks or you know... sock the shit out of someone.

Anonymous · Answer

Honestly? Not fucking more girls. I had girls throwing it at me when I was like 16 and 17, but I was super shy and thought sex was supposed to be some big meaningful experience with someone you love, so I passed up sooo many opportunities.

LilWisp · Answer

Biggest? Not standing up for myself when I had my bully. Started off a chain of reactions (I believe) that led to me getting bad social anxiety.

bubblegunnn · Answer

didn't say 'sup, why u lookin me like that' to my crush

exitseven · Answer

I really liked this girl and I think she liked me too . Still I was too scared to make a move.

Sandeeppingping · Answer

Getting a girlfriend, the one I got specifically

xJeremyx · Answer

What would high school be? The education system here where i'm at is modelled on the British system.

ConspiracyTheorist · Answer

Agreeing to take homeschooling because I couldn't stop getting into trouble.

Anonymous · Answer

all of high school , was an epic fail the entire thing , really nothing went right from the start to the end

Googlemyahoo · Answer

None Highschool was pretty much debauchery for me.

loveslongnails · Answer

Smoking too much weed and not going for the girls I really wanted

Loser94 · Answer

Not being more open to new friends really fucked me over so many great possibilities to meet some people

clampfan101 · Answer

Not asking my friends if they wanted to stay in touch after graduating.

Anonymous · Answer

I was so insecure in myself that I thought women saw me as about as sexually appealing as a toaster.

noohair · Answer

I don't think that way. The past is done and rethinking it is wasting time and energy.

OddBeMe · Answer

College destroyed the RAM of my high school days. Prob for the best.

maximumpower · Answer

Not beating the shit out of members of the football team that so badly needed and deserved it.

Fuentes · Answer

Not taking the SAT'S I probably would have gotten into a good university

Lincoln33 · Answer

Every one has their time, I believe one day will be yours

Methis · Answer

Spending too much time chasing girls and not enough time working my long term goals

Anonymous · Answer

Nothing really. High school is so limiting.

Anonymous · Answer

Being to shy around the one girl I liked the most. 🤣

Subarugirl · Answer

Not going to a real one

shesrad · Answer

not fighting back with bullies

fonduegirl · Answer

Not sleeping around

Sixgunsound · Answer

Putting up with peoples BS as long as I did.

Fireguy17 · Answer

A couple of girls I wish I would have asked out.

sheikalana · Answer

Not give two f*cks about school.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Missing out on going to the Prom

Thepumpkinhead · Answer

Being a mean girl.

JPresidente · Answer

Never went to Prom and I wish I would have.

AsaKyo · Answer

My ex boyfriend

Clyde_123 · Answer

Befriending mean girls.

himynameislish · Answer

Not standing up for myself

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