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I wish I could go back in time and correct my past.

Everything I did was mistakes. I burned all bridges, I broke all friendships, I broke all career paths, all opportunities that ever arose.

I wasted the family and friends I had.

Now where can I go. I feel like the biggest fool on earth.

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capitalizationerrorp offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 4 years, 8 months ago (1 minute after post)

Time moves in one direction.
Fixing the past is a matter of correcting the future.

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dotspot offline Verified User (5 years, 3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 4 years, 8 months ago (7 minutes after post)

I feel the same way. It’s horrible. As the guy above said, I try to remind myself that the only thing that truly exist is the Present, but its not so easy, is it?

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J-Down offline Verified User (4 years, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
An Unknown Location | 4 years, 8 months ago (9 minutes after post)

Capitilizationerrorp, I would uote you if it weren’t for the face tht you’re not actually verified. Excellent reply. There’s no other way to put it. Anonymous, you just have to move on ad start over. Make new friends, reconnect with your family. Find your career paths agian. Even go on to do more education if needs be. Just keep pushing your way forward in life. You’ll get there eventually.

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mjon offline Verified User (4 years, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 4 years, 8 months ago (14 minutes after post)

You could try starting anew. =)

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Who? offline Verified User (4 years, 11 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 4 years, 8 months ago (21 minutes after post)

dotspot wrote:
I feel the same way. It’s horrible. As the guy above said, I try to remind myself that the only thing that truly exist is the Present, but its not so easy, is it?

How true about the present, every mistake in the past was once the present.
It can be hard sometimes but the present is the rudder of the ship.

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dotspot offline Verified User (5 years, 3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 4 years, 8 months ago (21 minutes after post)

How do you let go, and stop feeling regretful?

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dotspot offline Verified User (5 years, 3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 4 years, 8 months ago (46 minutes after post)

Did you write all that just now? That’s some good reasoning, thank you. :)

How did you get to be so smart?

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4 years, 8 months ago (50 minutes after post)

I thank you too, to all of you who responded. This is the first time I’ve been on this site.

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rome offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 4 years, 8 months ago (56 minutes after post)

everything happens for a reason. life is a domino effect. so dont worry

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camara53 offline Verified User (4 years, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 4 years, 8 months ago (2 hours, 2 minutes after post)

I too was in your shoes many years ago, I decided I had 2 options 1 to start over with new everything…or 2 I could go back and try to make amends after careful concideration I decided what I did was not reversable or salvagable so I decided to start a new life for myself at 36 yrs old, now at 52 looking back it was the right decision for me…I have a wife ,kids and until I became disabled a business and believe me I didnt make any of the mistakes I did with my first life as I put it…..it wasnt easy to start over but with hard work and perciverance sp> it did work out, I have 4 step children now in thier 20’s and 3 children of my own from 7 to 16 and a wife. I took what I learned from my 1st life and didnt make the same mistakes, use your mistakes to learn from and move on unless what you did is fixable and worth trying to save, my only regret is walking away from 2 kids whom I loved, but they made it into adulthood and have done well despite me, I wasnt all wrong in what I did, but the end was my choice and it left me alone with nothing and no one, but I guess I was lucky as I was able to make a new life and even though it is not perfect, I appreciate what I have more and work hard not to make the same mistakes that took my 1st life from me…good luck and move forward one way or another, its the only way,either start new or salvage what you can…the choice is yours, both are hard and either one can fail or make it, but you wont know till you try, just learn from your mistakes and you will be ok.

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susannahdexte offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 4 years, 7 months ago (3 weeks, 2 days after post)

I know how you feel.. I made a big mistake- and all it took was 1 hour of talking but now the past few years have been so hard and I just can’t take it back. Things in life spiral out of control so quickly - yet when nothing is happening that can go on for years.. I didn’t realise what I had was great until now. I think the hardest thing I have learnt is that everything has a price - happiness still has a price, it is not for free in life.

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b_kita0 offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 4 years, 4 months ago (4 months, 1 week after post)

Just hang on, don’t give up and follow your heart, sooner or later you’ll know what to do. It’s never too late…

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ladiiphres offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 4 years ago (7 months, 3 weeks after post)

thanks guys you know what to say love ya

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ladiiphres offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 4 years ago (7 months, 3 weeks after post)

any true the mistakes you make in life make you have a better future i know im stuck in that sitiuation and i also wish i could go back in time and change thing but a cant but any way you dont give up and i want love ya

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15skyla offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 3 years, 5 months ago (1 year, 3 months after post)

I made one mistake- lying compulsively (BIG lies) to my best (and ONLY) friend. I haven’t confessed all that yet, but believe me, I will! And then, if she hates me, she hates me! I can just focus on my work and forget about friends for a while. Then, I’ll try to make new ones. I don’t want to look back and say, “Why did I never confess?” If I wait too long, my conscience may haunt me forever!

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markalac offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 3 years, 3 months ago (1 year, 4 months after post)

I am on that bandwagon too!
At 49 I would give anything to go back to when I was a child.
I would do many things different.
My father always told me “Never burn your bridges unless you have a boat”
I messed up soooo much and sometimes the same mistake.
For me, It’s difficult to move forward always looking back at the past!
I know I can’t change it! But…I can’t help it.
I try not to let it get to me. But it does.
Life on Earth is short, I will move forward with help from the Lord!

-Mark

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postalcraz offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 3 years, 3 months ago (1 year, 4 months after post)

I just wish I could go back and help a friend who was in too much pain to bear. I wish I could have been there for him like he was there for so many others. I have never known someone so pure, so important, so humble. I only wish I knew he was in pain.

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emil_ec offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 2 years, 8 months ago (2 years after post)

You all say its just to move on, But im sitting here with out the one i love, and have an Uncurable STD… no education, and loads off sad memories of all the Rebounds that i ****** to try to get over my Greatest mistake, leaving the one that i realy loved just so i would know what it was like to be with someone else.

I hurt her so bad, just so i could slate my lust. And it was never worth it, even tho i got her back and forth, it all ended upp with me saying the last sentance

… You can only Glue a broken vase so many times… convincing my self that i could move on and lett her go, but i can, i just cant, and as Depression takes hold, energy levels just plumitt, and Shool and work just seems to whitther away while i sleep in my bed waiting for better days. What a FAILURE i am.

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samsam offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 2 years, 4 months ago (2 years, 4 months after post)

can’t get myself out of it ….feel so lonely and depressed..i lost myself and i’m seeing myself in other stupid persons..i know it’s complicated but it’s the worst thing and the worst feeling i’ve ever felt …whatever i just wanted to write it, to make people understand what i’m feeling…..GODDAMN IT why is it happenin’ to me??? why should I fall in this ******** and feel tha’ pain??? there must be a reason …and tha’ s the only thing which keepin’ me goin’ on :’(

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flimpi offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 4 months, 2 weeks ago (4 years, 3 months after post)

Thanks I am afraid to move on, I seem to think I will fail, I have been in my house most of my life. I only lived a bit when I was at Top valley, many decades ago.

That’s the last time I had friends, I seemed to wish the years by due to the fear I am in.

Maybe when I am about 60 I will maybe stop being so tired, maybe I will go to a charity shop again to learn to make friends again, as a volunteer.

I go back to studying on the open uni again on the internet, I don’t really like this indoor life much.

I think it’s the electric that’s stopping me from living I don’t know.

Don’t get much fresh air, I seem to carry the world on my shoulders my mum seems to think, least I got maybe nice sort of mum.

mum say’s not every body likes every one, not everyone will like you.

I am sorry about my poor education, never could see until 1997.

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