Dealing with regret

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I was an AFC and a nerd when I finished high school and completed my first degree. I transferred universities and with my new course, promised myself I'd never be that guy again.

Things went pretty well at first. I became a pretty popular figure; well recognized and my social status was sky high.Yet the higher you fly the harder you fall. I never managed to get a handle on my AFC behavior so now I end my degree being essentially single and hence not taking advantage of being young and getting around.

Even worse I have come to realise is that while my social status was high, I never forged real friendships. I know and see many these students now have gone on to form tight circles of friendships; friendships that I to be honest, do not have and sometimes want more than having picked up chicks.

Lastly yep, you guessed it. That AFC behavior got back to me big time. I'd have so many of these girls wrapped around my finger but I only ever slept with one who turned out to be a psycho. Even worse was the few girls who were LTR material.

I apologize if this sounds like a pity rant but I do not know what to do. It's been ages and I just cannot seem to get over this dark cloud that is hovering above me. Essentially I feel I've wasted my last few years as I basically walk out with nothing I feel is valuable to me. How can I get over this?

The thing is my degree is medical based. The high study and stress load takes it's toll on your social circle outside of university. I have essentially lost many of those I use to have and it does not help I start my internship in a few weeks time so I just feel I've lost everything I thought I'd ever want.

Money, fame and status are not things that rank high with me. I guess you could say I am that kind of hippie-type drifter. Yet it just sucks that I can walk through university and see guys who you'd call geeks with girlfriends or other guys who seem to have it naturally down pack.
 

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All you can do is learn from it. Try to improve and move on.
 

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I'm sorry but you sound a little delusional. High status and girls wrapped around your finger but you're not banging all but one low quality one and don't have any real friends? How do you figure that works out? If you want close friends you need to have something in common with them, things like drinking, hobbies, work, smoking. Even if you are some kind of medical nerd you just need to start chilling with people like you. If all you have time for is studying, find someone like you to chill with. This might not be exactly what you have in mind but you have to be a little realistic here.

That AFC stuff has to stop, you sound like a smart guy that people generally like. If a girl feels like she has you around her finger she will lose interest. Women are not like men, if you find a girl that does everything you want and looks good you will be a happy man on his way to Jareds eventually. Women will try to control men and when they finally do they lose interest because they see you as a chump. You can't give women everything they want. They have to see you are ready to move onto something better or they will just drive you nuts. You can't be nice to them all the time. They are not like men, they are more like children. If you don't set ground rules with children eventually they will be bathing in shiit and running wild.
 

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Regret in itself is an AFC mindset. It's based on the idea of scarcity--that there won't be more opportunities, new friends, more girls in the future. Being outcome dependent means you can burn through all your options but still be confident you can always generate new options. Own your actions--you did the best with what you knew at the time; now you hopefully know more, have learned from your mistakes, and can improve yourself moving forward. The way I choose to look at things, is anything that I learned from wasn't a mistake or a missed opportunity--it was just part of my journey.

Are there things that I would've done differently? Hell yeah, but there's no point on dwelling on that. Focus on the things you can improve. You can't do **** about yesterday and once you're happy with where your life is today all of those missed opportunities won't mean ****.
 

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Can you go back in time and change it? No.

So why spend time and energy thinking about what you can't change.

Determine what you want today and every day going forward and then go about being that.
 

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Can you go back in time and change it? No.

So why spend time and energy thinking about what you can't change.

Determine what you want today and every day going forward and then go about being that.


Very true....You can see the mistakes you made in the past and change in the future.
 

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Regret is incited by your inability to look deeper into the darkness to identify that there is light. In ALL challenges, there are lessons to incorporate that are critical for your spiritual, intellectual, and emotional growth. Just as a muscle must be torn down to grow stronger, challenges must appear to strengthen YOU and your deficiencies.

Look deeper young man, and extract the light; understand HOW these challenges led to--or can lead to--your present day evolvement. Regret disintegrates in the face of consciousness and enlightenment.
 

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Cheers lads, admittedly I'd gotten back from a 3 day bender road trip (to celebrate finishing university) and unfortunately one with a girl I have been interested in for a while and while she was super interested, I let the opportunity slip and did not go for it. Hence fatigue and feeling regret got the better of me. But no, I guess like you all say, the onus lies in me as the common denominator since then to now and I must toughen up and move on whether I like it or not. Looks like it is back to the DJ Bible to revise and kick myself so that I don't forget everything I learned!

SgtSplacker I guess you could say I was a drifter. I got around the parties, made good company but when it got to the year/ point where friendships were defined, I disappeared floating to other social circles or knuckled down onto study. The girls, I just went all AFC so quickly and girls just ran for the hills and it's funny that everything I learned, I literally let go. I guess I stopped hitting back up SS thinking I had things down packed.
 

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I regret poads of things. Can I change the past no....In fact I am wallowing in regret right now. It's a state of mind.Learn from the past do better in the future.
 

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Take full responsibility for your life experience...everything....own it...own your mistakes and learn from them.
you'll keep repeating them until you learn. Edison apparently "failed" about 900 times before...succeeding with
the lightbulb...

Write out a list of about 8-10 goals:
Health, fitness, carreer, finance, personal development, social circle, (passion), (hobby), (giving back)

write a seperate page for each goal. write out a long term goal for each one with an end date. Now write out a
short term goal for each one.....now write what one small thing you can do daily to contribute to these goals...

now when you get up in the morning you have a mission....you feel a sense of urgency....your focus is on contributing
to your goals.......you have razor sharp focus on the present with one eye looking to the future.....a common trait of people who take full responsibility for their life experience....do it...now

When you have these goals up and running....after a few weeks or months you'll feel a flow...a momentem. whip out another piece of paper.....write down 101 things you want to do before you die. Could be learning the guitar, learning Spanish, travelling through South America, swimming with dolphins, a threesome with a black cuban girl and a brown Mexican girl, running with the bulls in Pamplona, skydiving...

Only a ghost wallows in the past.

Do the thing and you shall have the power....Emerson
 
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Sounds like your on the right track in life. You'll be fine in the end. These girls that you missed out on will be overweight, single mothers in a few years most likely and you'll be thankful you were an AFC.
I think women would deal with a lot more regret than men due to the amount of men they reject. Also men peak later in life.
 

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Answer me this. Were you highly regarded for your entertainment value or did people actually give a fvck about your well-being?

It sounds like you became superficially popular, like you didn't actually get close to people to connect. Like you went for quantity over quality.
 

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Reykhel; thanks mate, reading that post, I realised I had lost my way in life and as we speak I am writing up my goals. It's been too long and time to get back.

Raider87; cheers mate, hopefully so that I have still got better things to come!
 
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