“My Personality Changed”: 35 Huge Mistakes People Made That They Sincerely Regret

I smoked for almost 20 years, most of the time over a pack a day. Just imagine what you could do with 50k and a pair of healthy lungs. 12 years nicotine free and getting the meds to quit is the best decision I've ever made

I stopped smoking after 35 years because of COPD. If only I hadn't started. Life with COPD is not nice and it is not curable

It made me so sick I had to throw up, but I was sooo determined to get past it I just lit up another and another until it didn’t make me sick. Because everyone in my friend group smoked and me being the youngest made me want to be just as “cool”. I was 15, managed to stop 20 years later only to pick up vaping during stressfull life event and still battling with that addiction.

Lost most of my parents' generation of family members to the effects of smoking.

I quit smoking with Chantix for 4 years and unfortunately after my father passed away I started again. This time I was able to go to vaping and I'm weaning myself off of that too slowly. It's going really well because I've gone from nicotine 36 mg to just 6mg. Next month I'll go down to 3mg.

Some are, some are not.

Disagree! Worked at 3 companies, and some coworkers are still very good friends! Not all of them,. some people I am glad that they are gone :)

In a conversation with two co-workers, I referred to them as being my "work friends." One of them piped up, "What do you mean 'work friends?' We're FRIENDS!" I asked, "Oh, yeah? If you had a party this weekend, would I be invited?" The deer-in-headlights look I got in return was answer enough, LOL!!

I'm living it right now and it really hurt :/

Each and every coworker WILL throw you under the bus. Don't divulge personal, heavy personal topics, no matter how much they seem open and talk about their personal lives. I know it's tempting, but it's a facade. If you have already done so, if you can retract a bit. If you complained about your parents and upbringing tell them you're now having a better relationship with your folks now and then just stop talking about your life.

Also remember people that you can't be there 24/7 even when your loved one is seriously ill or dying. And I don't think your loved one would like for you to put your life on hold like that either. Death comes to us all and you'll almost always have things left undone.

They really don’t need to censor drūgs in a medical context!!!

I have regrets that I did not do things with my parents when they asked me to spend time with them doing something they enjoyed. My mother's dementia started in 1991 and she passed in 1999 and my father passed in 2007. There are times I get depressed over not doing something I remember them asking me to do. But, now as I have grown children in their 30's and 20's I can say there are plenty of times I've asked them to spend time with me and they have decided to do other things, hang out with their friends instead etc. I don't hold that against them. I might make me a little sad at the moment but, I'm glad they have lives and friends and people who love them. I'm glad they are doing things they enjoy and I get enjoyment out of just knowing they are ok and they are getting to live their lives. I cherish my memories with them and I cherish the times I get to spend with them. Your dad loved you loved knowing you were a good student, and he knew you loved him.

oh s**t. i am so, so sorry this happened to you. don’t blame yourself, please.

So busy with life & relationship problems I declined Thanksgiving with my brother. He d*ed of su***de 1 month later. Make The Time.

Mostly I regret not asking my mother more about why I'm so different. She knew about my being intersex and could have helped me a lot in getting the medical community to not try to pretend it's not there.

Wish I'd asked my dad about World War II. He was very young and left the army as soon as the war was over, but he never told us anything specific. I'd have liked to have known specific place names and dates, etc. And I don't think it was traumatic. My dad said his time in the army was one of the best times in his life (granted, he was a teenager).

Ooh I feel this one.

Mom is writing things down for herself and her mom, and I know a lot, but yeah taking a recorder and asking especially dad about his childhood things is something I should deffo do, because a kid of immigrants in the post ww2 era Finland has a completely different experience set than most. I've heard some, but I know there's so much more history to tell

I feel this way about both of my grandfathers

My mate jumped in to the middle of a pool whilst drunk, neither shallow or deep, but ended up breaking his neck and was in a wheelchair for the rest of his short life. He was in his late twenties and ended up choking on some food, a problem he had developed after the accident. He was a great guy that made a terrible mistake one night and we all really miss him.

In addition I’d recommend not swimming drunk overall.

I agree. Don't go diving drunk and don't go driving drunk. Of course you could tell people you played a storm-trooper in a starwars movie and got wounded when they forgot to swap the real light-sabre for a prop.

Eeks!!! Probably wasn't the best idea to read this at 8.30am but at least it wasn't very late at night! Oh man... I thought I was hardcore! I had to snap my middle right finger back into place after our security gate slammed closed on it. I phoned 111 the NHS helpline and they asked if I had sensation in the fingertip, yes I did, how swollen was it? Quite swollen etc. I knew it was broken so using their advice after snapping it back in place and putting a frozen bag of peas on it? I strapped it up using duct tape and two chopsticks I had to help straighten it. It was around 8pm at night on a weekend so A&E is usually really busy and spending hours up there for an x-ray and then them just doing what I did after it happened? I felt like I'd be taking up time from more serious cases coming in. They did say to go to A&E though if I started to lose sensation in it or it turned a different colour.... But holding my face onto my skull? I'd have thrown up too omg!!! Talk about Hardcore!

Was with a guy who dove into a river by a waterfall without seeing if he should first. Brutally nasty injuries & lucky to be alive. Always Check Before Jumping!

Don't ever talk to the police without a lawyer if you're arrested. Don't believe the 'if you're innocent you wouldn't need a lawyer' nonsense that some police will try and tell you to avoid you getting a lawyer. Getting a lawyer doesn't mean that you're guilty and the police will not automatically believe you just because you're innocent. People have been coerced into false confessions because no-one was there to ensure their legal rights were followed. Once you're provided a confession, even a false one, it becomes much harder to argue that you're innocent. It's not just in the US either. There have been plenty of cases of people being coerced into false confessions or dying in police custody because no-one checked on the prisoner here in the UK as well.

Older brother was a lawyer. Repeat after me, “I want a lawyer please”. This is all you say beyond basic information even if they say you are not a suspect. Police lie, it’s how they solve cases. Always have the information for a good lawyer on your phone and written in your wallet. You never know when you will be picked up. I got stopped one day waiting for the handicapped bus. A woman loosely matching my description was shoplifting in Target across the street. If my Dr.s office did not vouch for me they would have taken me in, even though the woman was in a mobility scooter wearing red shirt and I was in my rather large pink electric wheelchair and wearing pink.

This is something we drilled into our teenaged daughter. The only two things you sat to the police is I want a lawyer. And I want my parents. We told her to just keep repeating it if they continued to try and question her.

That depends very much which country you live in and why the police are talking to you!

and don't take a lie detector test--they aren't admissible in court for a reason!

Soooo "you smell like a sea lions belch" is a legitimate insult. Thanks for the information.

TIL, and TILOLLED hard

Hmmm. A little dramatic. I was a marine animal keeper/trainer (Including seals, sea lions, African penguins and polar bears. It was stinky at times but the ingoing stuff food was waaay easier than the outgoing stuff.