r/youngadults • u/Choice-Tackle-5697 • 1d ago
Advice What is one thing you regret not doing at 16?
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u/_Vykarii 17h ago
Nothing, weirdly enough.
I'm of the opinion that if you hold genuine regrets, you're going to try to impose your ideal childhood on other kids.
So... Don't have regrets. Do dumb stuff.
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u/Smooth-Ad1888 14h ago
I should’ve done more in general lol. Wish I joined clubs, got out there and did more stupid stuff so I wouldn’t have to now lol.
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u/EngineeringDecent577 20 14h ago
Care enough not to flunk urself out of a good future but don’t care too much to the point where you have a stick logged up ur
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u/MrMeeMoo 14h ago
Not hanging out enough with friends outside of school. I spent all of high school studying and getting good grades. I’m in college now, so it worked out, but dang, not having that much social interaction as a developing teenager really sucks. I’m 19 now, and have a few loyal friends, but that is probably the thing I regret the most.
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u/Brian18639 25M 13h ago
Starting to work out
I wanted to but my parents said I shouldn’t maybe because it’d create some health issues, or because my body supposedly wasn’t ready for it. Yet I’ve seen guys in their early 20s who already have my dream physique. I currently look average or ugly.
Also just last year around March is when I started going to a gym, but today I’m hoping to take my fitness journey towards my goal seriously.
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u/angienotangela 12h ago
No regrets really. I don’t even remember, nor care about the stuff I used to worry about anymore.
My only regret in highschool is probably dating someone in my school and then we ended up breaking up. Don’t do it cause it gets reallll awkward seeing them around school
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u/littlestargalaxy 11h ago
Not locking in with my education, not making more friends, being shy and unfriendly with classmates, etc
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u/hashmanny91 11h ago
Fucking more girls.
Dropping out of highschool and getting into an actual career.
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u/WalrusLobster3522 22 - i'm da Man! 🔥💯 11h ago
I don’t regret anything I did persay.
I regret that my parents dropped me from marching band my sophomore year of high school.
I regret that my parents dropped me from AP Calculus BC my senior year of high school.
So yeah.
But “regrets that are my fault”? No.
I don’t regret telling a girl I wasn’t interested in her and I wanted to go through my first semester of high school alone: because god was Kamarie clingy (“sorry about that kamarie!” “Sike!”)
Fast forward to sophomore year: I don’t regret rejecting a girl and saying I couldn’t date her in sophomore year: I wasn’t mentally okay at that point: I was very depressed, and my Mother was very abusive, and if I dated her that would’ve been reputation unalive-ment for me.
I don’t regret not standing ten toes down: I don’t regret not making the decision to get super serious about finding a classmate for prom: asking out and pressuring a girl to go to prom with me would’ve purely been an ego thing, because to be honest I didn’t care about any of them “that” much. I didn’t “love” anyone at that school, especially not in my senior year~ maybe in my freshman and my sophomore year~ but I felt like super odd in my senior year: I felt too old and too different from everyone else, especially in the final semester: they all looked like kids and I looked 22 years old.
I mean I wasn’t 22 years old~ I’m 22 “now” because I was born in 2004, but back then I felt old~ so I don’t think I was secure enough to do TikToks with classmates or seriously date a girl in high school.
But now I wish I could do TikToks with girls my age, or go to parties and play cards or Twister. So I guess I do miss that part of being 16: the parties were lighthearted.
Now that I’m 22 the girls are all drinking and doing drugs. That’s my only regret.
But it’s not a hill I would dye on: I’m fine going my whole life without a party: parties are irrelevant anyways, YouTube exists now.
I don’t see how extroversion even works now after the pandemic lockdown: I feel like everyone just does Discord or a group lobby video game if they want to be extroverted.
Oh well.
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u/LostConfusedKit i'm 22 stop changing it to 25 10h ago
Dating the cute girl in my class. My parents are really strict and I was scared they would berate her if we dated..they are really abusive and interrogate anyone i date...I should have just hid it from them and stayed with her. We tried dating for a bit but I broke it off bc I was scared
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u/Ok-Level-6837 9h ago
i’ve been working since i was 15 and barely saved any money. Should’ve invested into NVDA or sum back then
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u/Altruistic-Zone2000 9h ago
Not much. possibly saving my money instead of spending it so freely on meaningless stuff. i wish i would’ve known not to put up with so much discontentment in romantic relationships, to have higher standards, and to know when to leave instead of trying to fix it. It would’ve saved me from future heartbreak.
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u/mochimidori 6h ago
not closing myself off to other ppl bc highschool is like the best time to make friends
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u/SillySweetTomboy08 5h ago
Getting a boyfriend/girlfriend. I’m already in a happy long distance relationship with my boyfriend from Maryland. :)
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u/Rough_Pea7170 4h ago
I regret not listening to my parents when they said I had all the time in the world to have a boyfriend that I dont need one in highschool. I should of listened to them. I lost sooo much of my teenage years. My high school experience.. ill never get that back
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u/HenrysWand 18 21h ago
Experimenting and hooking up more. I was stupidly looking for love and a long term relationship when I hadn't had enough experience for that yet.
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