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Everybody has made bad decisions in their life at some point they regret later. Some people are obviously worse than others. Sometimes we were just naive. Other times we were misguided. But often we were just being stupid and stubborn because we were fixated on an emotion or something else that made us act irrational.

I can own up to my mistakes and accept the consequences for better or worse. I said and did a lot of stupid things when I was younger. You can’t change the past but you can learn from it.

But from my observations I notice women are more likely to have to “learn the hard way” whether it’s dating the wrong kind of (abusive) men or supporting political causes that are based on emotion vs. facts/logic.

Not to say they don’t learn their lesson at some point. For example I talked a young woman who completely supported BLM but absolutely regretted after they publicly supported Hamas terrorists. I also spoke to another woman who once identified “as a man” when she was a teenager and early 20s. Now she’s in her late 20s she also completely regrets.

I bring up politics because supporting political causes just out of emotion has dire repercussions for society as a whole. This can be just as true for conservatives too. But overall I see people who blindly support leftist causes come to regret it later because they there is unforeseen consequences to radical policy.

For context I am 22 and recently graduated college.

During my senior year of highschool there was a girl who was two years younger than me. Its a long story and hard to explain but essentially we both had a crush on each other for like 2 years at this point but had never dated. At this point, knowing I was about to graduate, I was scared of dating her. At the same time, I was a little sad that I wasted the last couple years and never dated her while I could.

there's more to the story but I'll keep it brief: we were really, really into eachother (based on my own experience and what her friends have told me) but we never dated, and when we tried in the summer before I went to college we got into an emotion-fuled fight and really hurt eachother. I think we both just knew that with me in college and her still in highschool it was not going to work. And being young and dumb we said stupid things to each other.

During my freshman year I asked one of her friends if she was still mad at me and she said no, in fact, she wanted me to text her. We apologized to each other and I told her I wanted to at least be friends and she said she felt the same. But we drifted apart and I haven't really spoken to her since then.

I am probably overthinking this but I wonder if she's still into me. She is the most attractive girl I've ever met even after all this time. She always views my stories on instagram and snap, but we never talk. We both dated a few people over the years but nothing has lasted.

Do you think there's a chance she still might me interested in me? Or am I crazy and wishfulling thinking. I just hate that we never really had a chance to actually try at dating.

I want to know if I need to finally let go and move on if there could be a chance for us.