My Greatest RegretsWhen I was still quite young, I was offered the chance to spend several weeks in the South of France. My Uncle was going to drive me down in his vintage MG sports car. There would be sun, sand and, crucially, French girls.
I was too scared of the French girls to go.
What do you regret not doing?
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chthonic, Thu 5 Oct 2006, 13:25)
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Bad yearsI spent about five years living in poverty in Edinburgh (including living next to a dead man see here) and trying to become a writer. I don't regret the last bit as I was quite successful and now am an academic.
But I did spend a lot of the five years in a state of depression due to living in shit flats, not having any money to go out or make new friends, and living with a paranoid and manipulative girlfriend (I couldn't afford to go anywhere else).
Looking back on it, I could have still have got where I'm now even if I had got a part time job, gone out more and made some more friends, and dumped the girlfriend.
All that romantic living in poverty shit was just a waste of five years of my life.
(, Wed 11 Oct 2006, 16:20, Reply)
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