I’m not sure I’m a fan of this prompt. For everyone who has a lighthearted response or a “I wish I had taken a job I was offered”, I can see there being someone with a truly heartbreaking regret like not going home to see a loved one b4 they died or not making amends after an argument. For those that have such heartaching responses, I hope the prompt didn’t ruin your day.
Mine is a silly one. I am not good a peopling. I don’t get on well with other people and get all nervous and stuff. A large part of it is self-esteem/awkwardness issues. Like many teenage girls I have self-image issues about how I look (and b4 you say anything, I app the heck out of all my photos on here). I know someone can tell me I look ok, or that looks don’t matter, but that doesn’t beat out the voice in my head tellling me i’m ugly and weird and stupid. It’s got a lot more practice at convincing me than they do.
I don’t think there is one moment in time that I could go back and do something different and make me not like this but there was an incident where when I was 7, and older boy told me I was ugly and his mother told him to be quiet but didn’t challenge his statement and all I could think about was did that mean she thought he was right. It still eats away at me to this day. I’ve always wished I had stood up for myself and called her out on it but she was a grown up and I was a child and that would be rude so I didn’t.
Would it have made a difference. Would I now be sociable and confident if I had done that? Probably not.
But I wish I had.
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