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If you just found out you had <1min to live, what would your greatest regret be?

Never learning how to stop judging myself. I don't expect to ever forgive myself for half of the mistakes I've made. They haunt me unendingly.
 
Legerity said:
Having spent most of my life being what I thought others wanted me to be, rather than knowing it was okay to be who I am.
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This is one. I'm changing it now, but I lost so many years. So many regrets. I probably could get them down into one minute if I practiced and learned to spit blank verse really, really fast. (If you're of a certain age, you'll remember the FedEx guy and his rapid run-down: something like that.)

I have told everyone in my life that I love them (not on ecstasy). I brought the hug and the spoken "I Love You" to my family more than 20 years ago, I guess can be proud of that. They think it's kind of weird. lol.

Biggest regret: Having social anxiety disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder (mingler) and a DEEP fear of intimacy: so I regret the many loves that I met and really liked but ran away from before anything lengthy could develop. Running away as soon as there's a spark of chemistry and I like someone and they like me. Running away.

Hurting people because I ran away they thought I didn't like them. I was just terrified. Sorry everyone.

Running away from opportunity for fear of rejection. Letting my life be ruled by fear for most of it. Forfeiting game after game so that I don't have to face loss or rejection.

That must be a minute. =D
 
Something angry.. I'd regret not telling off people who angered me in the past. I would see a list of all the people who hurt me and I never hurt back, and think to myself that I failed them. That I allowed myself to hold on to their hurt for them, instead of spurning it back to them to burn them a new, more intelligent perspective.

I would regret all the people I've failed.
 
Lysis said:
Not knowing true love. I've recently been wondering if I've actually encountered it, or if I have been too "in the moment" to realize that I've been fooled by a few lovers. Other than that, I would be really scared to know I was dying!
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If you loved the person it was still true to you, even if you were getting strung along and it wasn't mutual =\ I know how you feel
 
Nothing really came to me off the top of my head, to be honest.
Everything that I have regretted in my life (both doing and not doing) was something that I could not do if I lived for another hundred years. Things like, not showing enough love to my high school girlfriend, not having enough fun in college, not making more lasting friends during those years.
Now that I have passed those years by, my regrets would be not becoming the better person that I've wanted to become, and that I was never able to find a proper "best" friend. The first one will come with time and self-awareness, and the second will follow from the first.
 
reading this thread's title because it made me roll my eyes so hard i lost one of them. regrets are nothing more than self-imposed limits
 
thujone said:
reading this thread's title because it made me roll my eyes so hard i lost one of them. regrets are nothing more than self-imposed limits
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Regrets are much more than that. They are reminders that being the person you want to be takes effort, and doesn't come automatically.

Becoming *trapped* in regret, however, is exactly the self-imposed limitation you mentioned.
 
Tromps said:
What if one had no regrets?
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Then you would count yourself the luckiest individual ever to live, and die content.

Honestly, some of the responses here have been both beautiful and heartbreaking. I am shouldering more regrets than you could shake a stick at (unless you had several sticks and were unusually deranged) so it's not easy to answer succinctly.

I would regret not being the person I came so close to being, and all the mistakes therein.
 
Raw Evil said:
Regrets are much more than that. They are reminders that being the person you want to be takes effort, and doesn't come automatically.

Becoming *trapped* in regret, however, is exactly the self-imposed limitation you mentioned.
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good point, i guess there's a fine line between the two. when i think of regrets things that come to mind are opportunities i can never revisit so thinking about them at all just brings me down. i think the subconscious does remember them though and drive me toward becoming the person i want to be.

wait nevermind, i just remembered a regret i carry with me every day. not getting with a girl i really liked when i had the opportunity to. the image of her visage is permanently etched in my memory and it hurts me a lot on days like these.
 
Roger&Me said:
If I had less than a minute to live, I'd regret leaving my weed at home! =D
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Fuckin a man!

I'm sorry if this sounds lame but I really can't think of anything I would really regret. I've done a lot of fucked up shit in my life but I always did it because it was what I wanted to do at the and I will always support doing what I want to do.

What I'm saying is I've fucked up plenty of shit but I wouldn't change any of it because it has made me who I am and I'm not sure who/what I would be if things happened differently. I very well may be someone that I wouldn't like.

That being said I might be a little upset that I wouldn't have time to do more, learn more, see more, etc.

I'd probably be shocked for the first 20 seconds but then I'd crack a frosty brew and spend those last 40 in bliss.
 
One of the first things that would come to mind is that I don't have time to get laid and I haven't had any real relationships... That and I'd regret finding out with only a minute left, like wth can I do in a minute? I'd probably just flip out and rage and wish I could be shot up with a speedball before dying.
 
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For me it would be lots of little things combined to sum up the fact that i constantly took life for granted wasteing it by pondering predominantly on any negative aspects of life rather than apreaciating it while i had the time.

This of course would be compiled of all the aplicable specific events such as never taking the time to restore broken relationships with loved ones , not telling someone how you feel about them, or being a dick to someone you care about
 
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