12 mistakes you'll regret years later

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Find out what you are doing wrong and correct the mistakes of youth before it's too late.

1. Trying to rescue a hopeless relationship

It doesn't matter for what reason you are trying to maintain a falling apart relationship: you worry about someone else's opinion, about children, you do not want to lose your first love, or you think that no one else will love you. It is important that you voluntarily deprive yourself of the chance to find a person with whom you will be happy.

2. Don't let go of those who have already left

It's okay to yearn for a broken love or friendship, but this feeling shouldn't dominate your entire life. There are about 7.5 billion people in the world, among them there is certainly someone who will help you to be comforted. Although this does not mean at all that letting go of those who left you is necessary only for the sake of a new relationship. It is worth doing this first of all for your own sake, so that the burden of the past does not interfere with your cheerfully walking into the future.

3. Hold on to your unloved work

Taking into account the lunch break and the road, you spend a third of a week at work, and this is too long a period of time to tolerate an unloved occupation. Of course, circumstances vary, and it's not easy to leave a well-paid but hated position for your dream starting position. But you will definitely regret it if you don't even try to figure out what you really want to do.

4. Working too hard

Even the work you love is still work, and life should not dwell on it. Looking back over the years, you will hardly regret spending too little time in the office. But you may find that the children grew up without you, friends no longer call, because you always have no time, and you no longer have any interests.

5. Trying to meet other people's expectations

You went to law because your mom thought the profession of a lawyer was lucrative. We dyed our hair pink because it was fashionable in your party. We started a family because "it's high time at your age." As long as you try to meet other people's expectations, you have less time to live your life. You can, of course, wait for the midlife crisis and have a complete break, but this will not return you wasted years and missed opportunities.

6. Don't take risks

The risk is different, and you are unlikely to regret that you did not run across a busy highway at a red traffic light or did not sit in the sector of CSKA fans in Spartak uniform. But you will torment yourself with questions, what would happen if you decided to confess your love to a school hobby, respond to a cool vacancy in a large company, go on an adventurous journey.

7. Pay little attention to health

In youth, it seems that you will always be slim, vigorous and healthy, but the body will make it clear quite early that this is not so. Therefore, do not neglect the recommendations of doctors: healthy diet, physical activity, the use of sunscreens will help prevent many diseases, and preventive medical examinations - to identify them in the early stages and neutralize them.

8. Don't want to learn new things

With age, a person learns new things worse, so every year you will have to spend more time and effort on mastering new skills. In addition, there will be less and less time to apply them.

9. Missing the chance to go to the concert of a childhood idol

When you walked under the table and listened to your favorite songs on cassettes, the performer was already an adult, and all these years he was not younger. Therefore, it is worth going to a concert of your favorite band, while it can still perform with its full composition.

10. Dissatisfied with their appearance

Most likely, even now, looking at photographs from ten years ago, you do not understand why you tried so hard to lose weight or build up, dreamed of reducing your nose or enlarging your eyes. And now, of course, there is something to scold yourself for. You run the risk of not waiting for the moment when your appearance approaches the mythical ideal, so just look with different eyes at what you have.

11. Waste too much time

Already at school, we regret that we refused to sleep in kindergarten, and at the university - that we were not very active in school. Over the years, the list of missed opportunities will grow, and the only way to break out of this vicious circle is to start doing something right now.

12. Do not ask questions of older relatives while they are alive

Many people have to travel through the archives to compile a family tree, although it was enough to ask about their roots from grandparents when they were alive. Interesting family stories, relics, habits and characteristics define us whether we like it or not. One should be interested in the past at least in order not to be surprised that a blue-eyed blonde was born in a family of brunettes. Perhaps the neighbor is not to blame, but the great-grandfather.