What do you regret not doing as a teenager?

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1. I studied too much and didn’t have enough fun.

2. Wacky haircuts. I had that “14 or 40” style, never dared to try anything.

3. I wish I sought out extra cirriculars and community outside of my high school and my parents’ church.

4. I wish I had dropped out of school earlier. Would have saved me at least one rough mental period.

5. Having sex, having a boyfriend, a girls’ holiday, nights out drinking and dancing. Basically, having fun.

6. I wish I’d gotten a breast reduction (not that my parents ever would have allowed it). I could have saved myself 20 years of pain, shame, and inability to exercise.

7. Going to sleepovers, having more girl friends, dating my fiance earlier ahahahahahaha

8. I should have kissed more girls and less boys.

9. Cutting off selfish friends and focusing on me

10. A lot 😅
    Wish i didn’t care so much, partied, dated and stuff,.enjoying the moment more.

11. Ditching the group of fake friends and do my own thing. I am a very social person and don’t really have any problems making new friends. Except these people made me think I was stupid, weird and so on to the point where I became afraid of leaving the group and making new friends.

12. Having more of a social life outside of the group of friends I grew up with.

13. Study well

14. [removed]

15. Taking my education seriously

16. Go to public school. I was homeschooled and my mom (and other homeschoolers) had me convinced that public school was the worst place ever. But I was (and am) a super learner and would have really thrived in that environment, not to mention I would have had access to a counselor and college help. My parents didn’t help me with any of that. I think I would have been introduced to a wider group of diverse people too, which would have sped up the process of being more accepting and less judgmental of others.

17. I just turned 19 in July. I feel like I haven’t had much fun, I’ve always had to be the responsible one, the mature one, the smart one. I have sisters who are 5 and 3 who look up to me, and the 5 year old was born when I was 13, the start of it all.

    I want to actually enjoy being nineteen and my final year being a teenager. I don’t want to waste this last year.

18. Wish I could have partied more, and just spent more time with my friends outside of school in general

19. Socializing, I was too shy, too scared to make conversation I’m lacking a lot of social skills. Now even sending an email or talking casually with some people ends up me having a mental breakdown when I get home. I have friends and a boyfriend and the more I go out the more I see I’m way below the curve on what’s normal.

20. I partied way too much and didn’t put any effort into getting a degree. I wish I had.

21. My boyfriend.

22. Being more “rebellious”. Not the dangerous type of rebellion of course. But I had basically no real life experience until my mid 20’s because I was so sheltered.

23. I should’ve worked harder in school.

24. Follow up on my ex’ advise and buy and hold (hodl?) Bitcoin.