Regret

Feb 17, 2009 19:59

In an effort to keep myself updating this on a regular basis, I've taken up a challenge. My dear friend Kate has a fantastic blog, and she's starting a group topic once a week or so. Last week's was "freudian slips", which while hilarious, don't happen all that often in my life. This week's topic, though, is "regret", which I have plenty of experience handling.
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I spent a good long time this afternoon on Facebook, looking at pictures of folks I knew in high school. It was interesting to see how many of them are rounder (whether by beer or by baby), balder, sexier, gayer (out-er just really doesn't work as an adverb), and more often than not, happier.

I also happened to do one of those godawful "Remember Back to High School" surveys and thought back to the person I was then and the person I am now. And thought about how things went and how they might have gone had things been different.

I regret...
... not being a little more laid-back.
... not skipping school once.
... being so uptight about sex and boys.
... taking AP statistics senior year.
... being walked on by people I thought were my friends.
... letting go of some people I didn't yet realize were friends.
... not taking more art classes.
... not joining a sports team.
... not continuing to take Spanish after 10th grade. It's still my favorite language.

I don't regret...
... doing theater, band, and orchestra even though it made me so busy I could have cried.
... skipping most of the high school dances (usually because I did something more fun instead).
... saying no to the guy who asked me to senior prom.
... asking a friend to the winter formal. It was definitely a memorable dance.
... waiting to make a move on Mike. If we hadn't waited, we might have screwed things up.
... flirting incessantly with Mike instead of making a move on him! (There were some great moments of sexual tension to resolve years later!)
... making friends with people in many other grades than my own, although it was hard to leave them at graduation, and it's going to make reunions suck.

There's a whole different set of regrets from college, which I may get to one of these days. Anybody else have thoughts about high school?

deep thoughts

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