...you've wasted your life? I realize I'm only fifteen, but lately I've been thinking about my past a lot, and I think I've wasted parts of my life. I wasted most of my time in junior high, that's for sure. I took advantage of every opportunity in seventh grade, but I completely fucked up my eighth grade year...and barely made my ninth grade year worthwhile. I'd vowed to turn it around by my sophomore year, and I did for the first semester or so, but then more shit happened and I gave up. Lately I've been watching a lot of kind of "pre-teen" TV shows (don't ask why... I guess I just get bored late at night), and it's been brought to my attention that I've wasted some important years of my life, and it still affects me today, as I developed some bad habits and whatnot in eighth grade or so, and said things still remain. I realize I have plenty of time to turn things around, but in some ways I don't. I only have two years of high school left, and I don't know if it's even worth it to try anymore. I want to get into a good college, as that's always been one of my biggest goals in life, but is it even possible with three shitty or semi-shitty years in my past (eighth grade through tenth grade)? Who knows. I'm just kind of rambling, but I guess I'll just pose the question again: Do you ever feel like you've wasted your life?
i do... all the time. i feel i havnt lived for the moment. thats my only regret. not appreciating even the tiniest of things. but hey.. its part of growing up and learning. who cares? EVERONE has done it and theyve all had their regrets. we learn to live on peace
You have time to turn things around for getting into a good college and even if you don't get into the college you want, there is always the oppurtunity to go to a "less good" school and get really good grades and transfer. It's not the end of the world. Now wait til you are my age, getting out of a seven year relationship where you realize there were so many lies and missed oppurtunites and then you might really feel you missed out on a chunk of your life (not that I'm not still young also).
I may have wasted some time, and you probably have too, but it's impossible to waste your life, until it's over, because you always have time to do something meaningful before you die; whether it be 1 year or 50 years, it's enough time to make a mark on the world.
Nothing in my life has been a waste. It's all brought me valuable knowledge. It's all lead me somewhere. Everything I do I stand by and do not regret or consider as wasted time and missed opportunities. Ask me again on my death bed and I may feel differently, but until then...
I'de like to say, "No, I cannot relate to you whatsoever" but I feel it too. I've spent the past 2 years doing something I didn't want to do, because it's what I was suppose to do. Now I'm reeping the heavy consequences. Some may not see what I did as a waste of time and that I came out with something, but I feel differently. It's rather depressing, I may add. Now I'm living in a frenzy in my head, because it's telling me for some odd reason that time is a ticking. I feel like I need to find something to better my life and soon. But back onto you. College is different from hs in some aspects but similar in others. If you are slacking it now, perhaps nothing will change as you get older? Perhaps, the typical college/school isn't for you. I'm a strong believer that it isn't for everybody. That is just a thought, though. Myself speaking, I will totally slack at something I'm not passionate about.
ahaha and to topnotch's post as well you guys are both awesome I've wasted a whole shitload of my life being not-wasted such as right now
well put I dont feel I have wasted my life at all. I have lived to the fullest of my capeabilities. I make all my own choices, nothing is forced apon me..or at least I doint feel that they are. I have been blessed with a wonderful, interesting and challenging life. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Ha, ha,..... One could argue the only wasted time we men ever experience is during coitus reservatus :leaving: Hotwater
listen.... i think one of the essential things we shopuld do in our lives.... is never regret about the past!!!! just why do ya think you've wasted your life? if things went the way they did, it means YOU wanted them to and that's why they were right... life is not smth that must be perfect...mistakes are just further steps no regrets
for once i agree with you adam. sure, one might call my youth 'misspent'. and its true, i was a dumbass kid and probably did stupider shit than most of you. i was into drugs and i was promiscuous and crazy and to be honest im lucky i survived. ive really seen some shit. and now im just trying to get my shit together, and i know u wouldnt be who i am today if i hadnt been through what i went though. im different now. sometimes i wonder what i would have been like if i had followed the rules and done what i was supposed to when i was supposed to. i dont think i would know what i know now. i am not proud of the way i was but i dont regret nothing i cant change, you can only learn from it
we influence and put our mark on the world no matter what we do or how we try not to. but the fact that the OP is feeling this way is a distinct sign of emotional maturity and knowing that childhood is not your entire life. good for you and good good luck to you.
Yea, there is a lot of things i intended to do with my life, and when i look on things time keeps flying and i still haven't accomplished anything but graduating high school... I guess I have lots of time in the future to do something... but who knows.
you know, grades and school aren't the most important things in life. they do help though. when i graduated high school 3 years ago, i was at the top of my class, had a 1520/1600 SAT score, got a full ride to NC State as a physics major, all just to throw it all away because i couldn't handle all of my family and personal (some might say "mental" haha) problems. now i owe them a bunch of money and i have NO IDEA what i'm gonna do with my life. i always felt like if i was doing something constructive i wouldn't have time to think of all of the fucked up things in my life, but I guess i wasn't a strong enough person to cope with it all and keep all my scholarships simultaneously. Believe me, there are a million things that i regret and would do differently if i had the chance, but thinking of all of them and figuring out what i should have or could have done has never given me an ounce of satisfaction. My advice to you would be to not forget the past, but learn from it. Regretting things just makes you more frustrated. Follow a path whose final destination is uncertain and you can write the ending yourself. Remember, set your dreams high or you'll become bored, because castles in the air are the only ones worth putting foundations under. by the way that last part is emerson i think but i'm not sure.
