Story archives - tag: "regret"

IV

I never knew how much he loved me until he showed me the pictures of us he kept in his Army helmet for 4 years.

tags: lost love regret high school sweetheart [add]

2008-11-19 13:56:30 / Rating: 332.75 /

Blackfeather

When the doorbell rang at four o'clock in the morning, I knew the cop had seen my license plate.

tags: police mistake shame late night oops regret stupid [add]

2008-05-07 11:16:24 / Rating: 186.25 /

Steve

It wasn't until I handed the bouncer my ten dollars that I realized how pathetic it was to be at a strip-club on prom night.

tags: high school prom regret [add]

2008-03-06 11:47:26 / Rating: 179.25 /

ray.

If I had known it would've been the last piggyback ride, I would've asked you to carry me much further.

tags: drift breakup piggyback regret [add]

2008-03-03 12:59:02 / Rating: 335.25 /

Murphy's Lawyer

I got scammed out of $70 by two Chinese strangers in a teahouse in Shanghai, but I still had more fun with them than I have with any other members of my American study abroad group.

tags: scams Shanghai regret China [add]

2008-01-22 18:12:40 / Rating: 144 /

Regretful Lack of Attention

My best friend hung himself on a Friday afternoon, and when I checked my cell phone the morning of his funeral I realized he had called me that day at 3:24PM.

tags: childhood suicide friend death regret [add]

2008-01-02 15:30:08 / Rating: 588 /

Why?

Why did I ever get into the car with them that night?

tags: regret sorrow [add]

2008-01-01 11:55:27 / Rating: 179 /

feelslikerain

As we carried the fishing rods to the dock, it never occurred to me that the punch I had landed on the back of his head had started the end of my longest friendship.

tags: fight regret [add]

2007-12-28 13:52:49 / Rating: 149 /

Anathema

Only after being caught having an affair with her husband did I regret betraying my best friend.

tags: regret adultery best friend [add]

2007-11-07 13:15:25 / Rating: 131 /

Ken

I thought she was just joking, but I really should have gone to the prom with her.

tags: prom sorry regret [add]

2007-10-30 14:19:37 / Rating: 218.75 /

Nameless

Laying in bad with my girlfriend and child as they slept, I felt deep in my gut that my divorce was not because I became a lesbian at all, but because of post-partum depression.

tags: Lesbian regret fear [add]

2007-10-29 10:11:45 / Rating: 165.5 /

Noel

Hearing that she got engaged over the weekend, I decided it was time for me to stop regretting not kissing her that night six years ago and for her to start.

tags: love regret engaged [add]

2007-10-08 17:30:50 / Rating: 215.25 /

That one guy

The girl I've had a crush on for six years asked me for advice and I told her to stay with her boyfriend because I knew that would make her happy.

tags: love happiness regret [add]

2007-10-03 10:06:39 / Rating: 372.25 /

ivana

My first kiss happened just months after my mother died.

tags: kiss mother death loss cancer five experience regret [add]

2007-10-03 10:01:33 / Rating: 250.75 /

CheeseCorn

I'm committed to making lemonade, but I often wish I could pinpoint the moment when I settled for lemons.

tags: regret midlife relaitonships memory [add]

2007-10-02 10:28:21 / Rating: 244 /

Theoretical Theory

I'm convinced that if I had just asked her to prom she wouldn't have moved away and we would be together.

tags: love regret loss [add]

2007-10-01 13:50:08 / Rating: 145.75 /

Spankella

She ruined my haircut within four seconds of making her first snip.

tags: haircut disaster regret beauty school [add]

2007-08-30 16:44:22 / Rating: 138.5 /

Sharpe

It was only after adopting a cat that I realized I was more of a dog lover at heart.

tags: pets regret love adoption [add]

2007-08-28 23:06:07 / Rating: 227.75 /

too common

I looked up at his face, dripping sweat onto mine and suddenly looking so much older, and wondered if I was a better lover than my mother.

tags: regret lover mother's ex-boyfriend [add]

2007-08-07 16:21:12 / Rating: 168.5 /

scum

I was her babysitter, her superhero, her mentor, her protector, her beloved father-figure all her life up to the day I molested her.

tags: guilt shame betrayal regret self-hate [add]

2007-07-16 15:27:26 / Rating: 235.5 /

Chris

I will always regret not being by the side of my 9 year old brother, my best friend, the day he died of Leukemia.

tags: childhood regret sadness death [add]

2007-06-05 17:13:52 / Rating: 245.25 /

XT_Momma

I wouldn't have been such a bitch if I had known I would never see you again.

tags: regret sadness loss [add]

2007-05-31 14:50:19 / Rating: 235.25 /

Failure

I was the smartest person on my floor of my dorm, and probably the richest too, but I was also the only one to flunk out.

tags: college failure regret potential [add]

2007-05-21 10:16:25 / Rating: 226 /

Pearl

My freshmen year of college isn't even over yet and I'm already wishing I could start it over again.

tags: college life mistakes regret [add]

2007-05-09 11:24:59 / Rating: 248.25 /

your wife

I chose him, but now that I have him I frequently entertain thoughts of doing him bodily harm.

tags: regret hindsight [add]

2007-04-27 16:32:30 / Rating: 169.5 /

Miss.NoName

Though I was only 6, I knew how wrong I was to let my grandparents dog rapidly hump my pelvis, behind his dog house that spring.

tags: childhood regret animals kid hate [add]

2007-04-25 15:55:07 / Rating: 221 /

JJ

As I listened to the audience cheer, I realized how much I wish we were speaking so I could tell you how brilliant you are.

tags: theatre audience play regret [add]

2007-03-30 09:37:26 / Rating: 240.25 /

It Burns

The regret came not when I chopped chilli for tea but much later on, when I picked my nose.

tags: humor burn food nose ouch tea regret [add]

2007-03-27 17:12:16 / Rating: 310.25 /

Jean

At the age of 12, I found a wallet in a department store and lied to the owner when asked if I'd seen it.

tags: lying childhood regret [add]

2007-03-20 16:40:20 / Rating: 205 /

Holly

The one thing I thought I had enough of turned out to be my addiction.

tags: regret love realization [add]

2007-03-20 16:38:41 / Rating: 171.5 /

hip

The scattered ticket stubs and empty bottles still don't hide me from your anger.

tags: regret [add]

2007-03-20 16:37:43 / Rating: 145.25 /

thelorax

I told myself I would hug him next time.

tags: death regret [add]

2007-02-27 09:33:07 / Rating: 226.5 /

Rev

Although it took me some time to learn how to properly smoke tweak using the glass pipe, I have spent longer attempting to discover how to reverse the effect that it's had on my life- to no avail.

tags: drugs regret addiction [add]

2006-11-05 18:40:34 / Rating: 229 /

row

Reading through last year's journal, I see the words I can't even remember thinking.

tags: words adolescence regret [add]

2006-11-04 14:08:36 / Rating: 182.5 /

KC

I stared at the bucket of stale cheese puffs in disbelief and thought, "I can't believe I paid 9 bucks to eat at this lousy Chinese buffet!"

tags: regret food buffet humor [add]

2006-11-01 16:17:48 / Rating: 197.75 /

Chris

I spent three years wishing for the one thing I thought I wanted, and have spent all the time since wishing I hadn't wasted so much time in doing so.

tags: wishing regret wasted time [add]

2006-10-10 19:43:11 / Rating: 148.5 /

cz

She embraced me with the warmth of her skin, the wine on her breath and the smile on her lips and I felt absolutely nothing.

tags: relationship humor tragedy nothing beginning of the end memory regret [add]

2006-10-05 10:56:08 / Rating: 260.75 /

Lewis from North Carolina, USA

President Bush killed my father, a soldier whose burned remains are now a part of the Iraqi desert landscape, and I, longing to fit in by supporting something I did not understand, was stupid enough to vote for him the previous year.

tags: politics death regret fatherhood anger Bush President Bush Iraq terrorism 9/11 war [add]

2006-09-11 23:06:50 / Rating: 1073 /

Steve Brettult

I'm happily married with a family, but I still pine for the girl who died in high school.

tags: love regret romance childhood [add]

2006-09-11 12:27:17 / Rating: 309 /