What important decisions you made closed off paths of life you can never go on anymore?

For me, I'm frustrated that I never really went into physics and never took up physics in university. I love maths and exact sciences, and I should've exploited that love by studying them in high school and applying them in an academic career. A door that definitely closed for me, although maybe in a distant future I can still study them, as an amateur?

Also, the hundreds of hours I spent playing video games while I was younger should've been invested in something more productive, like playing guitar, studying or meeting up with people.

I really wish I had these realizations earlier. So what about you?

The doors in education are never closed. YOu can always go back to school.

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Only recently realised how pointless video games are, so I deleted them all and got a guitar.

Bah, it all is a matter of balancing your time.
When a game is loading, practice that chord you've been trying to learn.
Set aside time for gameing and otherstuff.
It's not that hard unless you have to do something every hour on the hour.

What's the difference, hobby-wise, between playing video games and playing the guitar? Aren't hobbys supposed to be pointless?

[edit-Oh yeah, and the topic...uh closed doors. The only ones I can think of, really, are relationship related, rather than career or anything. But I won't get into any of that...since when has Massassi been a place to air relationship grievances...!]

Well that was just it, I couldn't balance my time. I couldn't control myself, I just played and played and played.

Yeah, videogames are pointless, but they're fun. I don't regret a minute I spent procrastinating important homework or studies to play videogames. In fact, if I could spend the rest of my life playing videogames, I would. In the end I'd have spent my life having fun, and that's more than what 99% of people can say.

I regret not writing an english AP exam last year, and I DEEPLY regret taking any kind of science, because even though I enjoy them and get good marks, in order to get those marks they take too much time away from subjects that I'm not so great at, or I could have just taken english and rocked. The science "opened" some doors, but the poor marks have closed some also.

Also, about 2 summers ago, this girl I've been absolutely crazy about for the longest time got asked out by some jerkoff and she said yes, about 3 days before I planned on asking her out, and over this massive stretch of mine I have found out that if I had asked her out like, a week beforehand, she would have been mine. As a result of this not happening we both went through completely *** relationships when we could have been together. Yeah, I know for a fact that it would have completely changed my life if I had asked her out.

I should have change my [military specialty] the first time I reenlisted. Because I didn't do it then (in 1993, when I was happy with my current specialty) I missed the best time to do it. Now I'm stuck in a field I hate with only really one other craptacular alternative.

I should have bought a house when I was stationed in California. In order to qualify for the loan I needed my wife would have had to get a job, any job, just to satisfy the loan criteria. She even could have quit right away. But we were living out of a hotel and just wanted to find a place. So we found a really nice house to rent. Had I bought, I would have made an insane profit in just four years. Not necessarilly a closed door but definitely one that has post-poned financial bliss.

All my decisions seem to have sucked.

I should've bought that DeLorean instead of the 15 dozen hookers.

I have made many bad decisions, but dedicating time for videogames isn't one.

I got 99 problems but a ***** ain't one.

are they all luftballons?

I wish I had practiced my cello a lot more this last year. For quite a while my goal had been to go to a music school for undergrad, but the ability to do that evaporated along with my motivation to practice.

*shrugs* Still plenty of other opportunities left open...

I almost joined the military.. that probably closed certain doors.

Learning a foregin language early on. No matter what, my kids are gonna learn a language in their early years other than english.

However, one should not look at what is closed for them, unless they want to reflect on the why and change themselves for the future. I mean, I played games because I was too tired/lazy to do anything else. Anything I would have attempted wouldn't have been done all that well. And as stated previously, hobbies are just meant to be fun. It's only a fringe benefit that a cooking hobby makes you a good enough cook to make food for entertainment purposes, or playing an instrument allows outside performance. The main point is to give yourself a rest.

Haha. I can't believe I remember that song. It's been ages.

Also, I don't have any regrets. Nearly all of my decisions have been good choices, and the few that weren't I was able to correct or weren't very important.

I will never be able to interact in human society again because I've carved runes into my body with a ceramic tile and then filled the scars with sea salt.

Me? Something I thought I honestly had a shot at doing, but didn't take. I'm an avid wrestling fan. I watched WWE and stuff and one of their subsidaries, Ohio Valley Wrestling was holding an open try out. Catch was, it cost around $3000 to do that, but you get the majority of the money back if you didn't make it. (It was to pay for a school to train you. I think it was Killer Kowalski's school.) Anyway, I could have come up with the money because of a nice tax refund, but I had to pay for college still. Plus I don't think my now wife would appreciate it. Anyway, that's a door that's closed for me. I didn't expect to get famous, but I'm sure I would have loved it.

What would Jesus say to this thread?

Not joining? Yeah. Depends which doors you want to open or which route you want to take to open them.

I failed all my first semester college classes. I haven't be kicked out yet, so I'm guessing it's just a close call.

Advice: No matter how easy high school was for you, college will be difficult. Also, don't join the military unless it's your last chance to get out of town.

That's not true; the first year and a half of college are a piece of cake. It's the last two years that are particular hard, and that middle half is just meh.

I regret that I haven't written my first book yet. I feel that each day I don't work on it, I'm letting my dream slip away from me a little...

Doors are just windows you can't see through.

No biggie, home security isn't that hard to bypass.

You'd be surprised how many people past the age of thirty-four regret not joining. You'd also be surprised how easy college is after being in the military. It all depends on your perspective.