This week's Ask the GameGirls comes from Kauai Sniper. He writes:
This is more of a getting to know you/personal question than a gaming question. But I would still a question I have had for the GameGirls for a while. I know there are things that I regret, and I wondered if there is anything in your life that you regret? If so and you were given the chance would you want to change it?
Thanks,
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**Warning: This blog contains sexual oriented themes.**
A rather personal question to be asking hehe :P I try to live my life without regrets. Life is too short to spend it worrying about the past. I regret a few small things, like not working hard enough when I was in school or things I shouldn't have said to friends. But overall, I like the person I've become. I know that everything I've experienced before is what shaped me into that, whether good or bad. If I were to change anything, I would have saved more when I was a teenager, instead of blowing money on silly things. Then I wouldn't be in so much debt now!
Well, as I've gone through life, there are definitely stupid things I've done and things that aren't necessarily things I should be proud of. Though I believe that those things make me stronger and make me who I am, there is one thing in life I really wish I could go back and change.
I was working as a manager at Blockbuster a few years back (not a store manager, just a manager over the other workers). As most of you know, Blockbuster has a pretty high turn over rate. We had just finished the process of receiving yet another store manager. Oddly enough, he was a friend of the family that I hadn't really remembered, but my mom knew him from when he was younger. He was only a year or two older than me, so she had reason to recognize him. He had gotten married and just had a baby. He flirted with me around the store, and I didn't really think much of it, because a lot of guys flirt with me and he was married. A lot of the time when guys are flirty by nature, they don't really know how to turn it off, even after marriage. Unfortunately, he was serious in his efforts and I needed a ride home one night because at the time I didn't have a car. My naivety led to him coming onto me, even though he was married. I was extremely uncomfortable, and if I hadn't forced him off of me, I don't know what would have happened. I shouldn't have accepted the ride from him or trusted he wouldn't do something when he was clearly sending signals. It's quite possibly one of the stupidest things I've ever done, and I thoroughly regret it. I've only told a few people this, so I guess now I'm sharing it with the world. Or.. GameGirl.com readers at least.
As far as going back and changing it, I have mixed feelings. I'd love to say it never happened, but I probably wouldn't change it because it kind of shocked me into reality of the dangers of being too trusting. Because of the incident, I'm a smarter person now.
Honestly, I don't really regret much. Regret is a useless emotion that just makes you feel bad about something you can't change. For me, if I do or don't do something that I should or shouldn't have, then I look back and say, "Well, that was stupid." and move on. No need to look back again after you have learned from it and continue to regret it. That does no one any good.
There are only a few things in my life that I regret, however, I wouldn't go back and change it. I think it's shaped me into who I am today, so if it were changed, I would have never learned from it. It's that simple really. We all make mistakes, we get over it and know better for next time. :)
I'm very big on living my life without regrets. There is nothing you can change about the past, so why dwell on it. Don't get me wrong, I have had things happen I wouldn't wish on anyone, and would never want to have to go through again. But having to go through them and figure things out on my own made me stronger. I wouldn't be who I am today or where I am today without the experiences in life that I have had.
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