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Thursday, Oct 9, 2008

Have any of you guys ever been stuck in the past. What I mean by this is have you ever asked yourself, what would have happened if I would have done this? Why didn't I do this? Why did I do this? Lately I've been doing a lot of thinking about my past. When someone asks me whether I had a great childhood, I don't know how to respond, because yes I did love some things about my childhood, but I hated myself as a child.

Just so you guys can get a grasp for who I am in real life, I like to think myself as mild mannered yet at the same time an extrovert, sometimes a bit arrogant. Ever since I started elementary school, my attitude and personality went on a bit of a downward spiral that would continue to get more and more drastic as the years went by. This would including screaming at people, threatening someone to put them on a non-existent hit-list, being very stupid and act out like someone who had severe ADHD or OCD, and explode on contact to anybody who dared insult me. Yeah, people hated me, and I don't blame them, I despise the person that I was between 1998 and 2005.

I just sometimes wish I could go back in time and fix all the mistakes I ever did in my past. For starters, I want to stop my sixth grade self from embarrassing myself in front of the whole student body by being a prick and deciding it would be a bright idea to let everyone know that anyone who insults me will be sorry. I also want to go back to the time in 1994 when I was just four years old when I hurt this little girl by destroying her property and anything that she might cherish. Go back in time, and stop myself from getting angry at those who simply just wanted to be my friend and refused them because I was called Juan instead of Juancarlos. Go back in time and retain myself from asking out a girl who already had a boyfriend. Stop myself from getting suspended in middle school for getting in a fight. Stop myself from being such an annoying prick towards people. Stop myself from making racist comments. Basically just fix all the errors that I have committed in the past.

However, the one thing that I am proud of is that I'm not that person anymore. I am glad that everyone sees me as a new and improved, and different individual than what I was during my freshman year in High School. I am glad that I stopped hurting people so much, but in the process hurt myself for thinking of everything I used to do wrong.

Because of my attitude, I had created so many enemies, that my family had to relocate to a new district in Houston just because of me in 2002. I've come in contact with a couple of individuals who I haven't seen in years ever since I moved, and am happy that we have all matured in to better individuals.

Several times during my life, I have had nightmares over the destruction I had caused to the little girl's heart 14 years ago. My actions did not bother me at all, until the far reaching consequences eventually got to me during my early teens. It's funny, because even though I may not have done anything wrong for quite a while, the consequences of my actions eventually got to me and to this day I still feel like I have killed several people, and it's not a good feeling.

Have any of you guys ever had problem that you wish never happened? Have you ever dwelled on the past? Speak out!

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I try to live my life by no regrets and not dwelling on the past. So I dont really have any regrets on things I did do maybe things I didnt do though. You cant dwell on the person you were you have to make the right choices to be the person you want to become.
Posted Oct 9, 2008 4:12 pm PT
I ask myself those questions a lot too. When I look back at my childhood, I enjoyed it, but I hate the person I was back then. There are so many things I wish I would have done differently. I try not to dwell on it but at times, I find myself stuck on the bad things from my past.
Posted Oct 9, 2008 6:25 pm PT
Boy, do I ever know where you're coming from. I wouldn't change everything about my life to this point, but there are definitely key events that I would love the opportunity to do over. Regret is a terrible thing, but the older I get, the more those regrets tend to plague me. The problem is, there really is no way to change things you've done. The most you can do is mend fences with those you've hurt, and try to move on from there, but you really just can't remove the effects of your actions, no matter how much you might want to. That doesn't mean I don't constantly wish that I could, though.
Posted Oct 10, 2008 7:22 am PT
RTTV: I'm glad that you're living by the no regrets code. That should be something we all strive for. Sadly as much as I try to forget what I did, the regret eventually gets to me.

DemonSlayerZea: Human nature is a strange phenomena. We always remember the bad times more vividly than the good times. I wish it was the other way around so dwelling wouldn't hurt so much.

Enervator: I've mended fences with several people who I have hurt in the past. The sad thing is that I haven't done it with everyone since we all live so far apart now. That inability to mend fences with those who are no longer in my life is what gets to me the most.
Posted Oct 10, 2008 8:04 am PT
I know where you're coming from. There are a number of people (some of whom I've already blogged about) who are no longer in my life, and I long for closure with them and can't get it. As long as there's some means of contact with a person, there's at least a possiblitly of mending fences and perhaps even developing a new relationship with them, but when they're gone and you can't contact them and there's no chance of accidentally running into them, that's when things really bother me. The problem is, the more time that passes, the more awkward it becomes to try to contact them again.
Posted Oct 10, 2008 8:31 am PT
There are a myriad of things I wouldn't mind jumping in the way-back machine and fixing, but that's what makes our life's experiences unique. We all can't lead perfect lives. In addition, without making mistakes, you don't have anything to learn from. Without stress, there's no progress.

If I could change anything in my life, it would be a few of my relationship choices. I stayed stuck in a bad relationship for the better part of 4 years. There were so many other opportunities right in front of me, begging to be explored, but I spent a world of time trying to make something work that didn't. It was like trying to put a Mac Truck in a 1-car garage. As a result, I have a few regrets that I wish I could repair. For me, I regret missing out on opportunities. I've never really treated anyone unfairly that didn't deserve it. As someone that was bullied and ridiculed very early in life because of my race, I vowed to never do that to another person or anyone less fortunate.
Posted Oct 10, 2008 8:51 am PT
Enervator: I've tried searching for everyone I've ever come in contact with through facebook or myspace, and although I have found some success, there are still other people out there who I have not heard or seen from. I just pray they have either forgotten of my bad deeds.

Sylent: I agree with you that human society does not stand on perfection, and when someone perfect does come along, the nature of the human mind cannot comprehend this perfection, and we try to destroy it. However, it would be nice if we never had to suffer or make those around us not suffer. I'm really sorry about your relationship. Four years is a pretty long time, and it kind of sucks when you relive terrible memories and often wonder what could have been if things turned out differently.
Posted Oct 10, 2008 12:39 pm PT
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Posted Oct 11, 2008 8:18 am PT
I often feel like 'Man, I wish I done this instead of that' but I think everything happens for a reason (yes, I believe in that stuff). If Ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry christmas.
Posted Oct 11, 2008 8:18 am PT
SSJordan: I to believe in predestination. However I kind of also believe in free will. I really don't know what to believe.
Posted Oct 11, 2008 3:40 pm PT
Ah the things we humans do. When you do certain things you will always think about them. Try not to dwell on them. For if you do your life will be halted in many different ways. Trust me I know from experience.


One must learn to purge and comes to terms with who they are and how they can rectify what it is that one has done.
Only then will you be at peace with yourself and life as you know it.

Posted Oct 12, 2008 10:09 pm PT
I have also done things that I am not so proud of myself. In my late elementry/early middle school years, I went through a real life heel turn. I didn't go criminal or anything like that, but got arrogant and mean. I hurt several people and even though I've made it up to almost all of them, sometimes I think "what if I didn't change? How bad would I have become?" The past is something I try to deal with by remembering that there is always a choice, and I think we (you and I) made the right one. "The past holds our regrets, but the future...holds the rest of our hopeful life." Good luck to you on the future, Hurricane.
Posted Nov 15, 2008 12:06 pm PT
I've also done some things Im not proud of. Like yelling F#*K out loud in the 4th Grade,Flashing some Kids in 3rd Grade,Slapping a Kindergardner in 5th Grade, and most recently Getting a Referal For Playing around with my friends(which was really Stupid).I've also been a Real JackAss at School Latley to my Friends
Posted Nov 29, 2008 4:21 pm PT
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