- Crashed a car and totaled it.
- Ever having smoked anything. It was only tobacco and marijuana but still, not worth the health risk, the money, or the wasted time.
- Getting a mohawk.
- Getting dreadlocks.
- Getting paranoia. It cost me a lot of the latter part of my childhood, strained my relationship with my family and just took my focus and put it in the wrong place. I could have had a lot more fun if I just didn't focus on that stuff. I kick myself every day for that.
- Tried to get somewhere with a girl I had gone to high school with, with which I had next to nothing in common. I realized later it was mostly an unresolved crush from before, mostly about looks - which incidentally enough, I wound up not being interested in at all later. I look back and I just don't know what I was thinking on this one. Unfortunately, I put myself and my friends through a lot of stress over this and wound up wasting a lot of time.
- Not taking college seriously enough. Not getting an internship and not trying to get a job as soon as I graduated.
- Not taking some time by myself and reflecting, really asking and looking into just what I want out of life and who I want to be.
- Not taking any action to be interesting, and as a result I let three girls who would have been wonderful for me in every way pass me by. Not having my life together in time to have really done something about them. If only I had, we could have been having adventures together by now.
- Not believing in myself. This resulted in not taking any actions on my dreams and now I'm already 28 and nowhere towards where I want to be.