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Kenplay:
My biggest regret was using large money to furnish my apartment, things later went sour and I started selling those appliances.
This taught me a big lesson to first financially establish myself before trying to buy expensive things to please people.

I just entered 24 but the lessons life has taught me should make me very wise in my later years.

StPete:
I regret not traveling out to the US when I had the chance. Very similar to the OPs, it was during my NYSC, I had started the process, gotten everything else, even paid for my interview at the embassy. I had someone in the US back then pulling all the necessary strings. Everything was smooth but I just lost interest in going for the interview when it was time to. Told myself I would round up nysc, get my dream job, then go to the US on holidays without any fuss but here I am 10 years after. This country wrenches my heart everytime. It's so so depressing living in Nigeria

sassysure:
That's how an average naija behaves na
It's in us
Make 150k a month, drive a car of 3m instead of investing it first or buying a cheaper car.
Competing and ego spirit

We compete even in essential goods

StPete:
I regret not traveling out to the US when I had the chance. Very similar to the OPs, it was during my NYSC, I had started the process, gotten everything else, even paid for my interview at the embassy. I had someone in the US back then pulling all the necessary strings. Everything was smooth but I just lost interest in going for the interview when it was time to. Told myself I would round up nysc, get my dream job, then go to the US on holidays without any fuss but here I am 10 years after. This country wrenches my heart everytime. It's so so depressing living in Nigeria

Kenplay:
My biggest regret was using large money to furnish my apartment, things later went sour and I started selling those appliances.
This taught me a big lesson to first financially establish myself before trying to buy expensive things to please people.

I just entered 24 but the lessons life has taught me should make me very wise in my later years.

sassysure:
Seriously regretted not airing my view when growing up.
Why did I even do that?
Me that's a parrot now

sassysure:
Seriously regretted not airing my view when growing up.
Why did I even do that?
Me that's a parrot now

Kenplay:
Thanks, I have vowed not to live that kind of mediocre life again. Right now I will make the money in low key, invest a lot then boom when you see me with a nice car just know I have investment worth ×10 of the car.

Am no longer in a hurry to show off. I have greater height to still climb.

sassysure:
That's how an average naija behaves na
It's in us
Make 150k a month, drive a car of 3m instead of investing it first or buying a cheaper car.
Competing and ego spirit

We compete even in essential goods

sassysure:
Assuming it's always at the forefront of your heart or among the nmfirst 3 wishes of what u will do in the next five yrs, u would have been working towards it unconsciously.
U can still do that if u want to.

Astride:
Lol.
It's inherent in a lot of us. That feeling to competition. The desire to prove what no one cares to know.

Astride:
What makes the feeling even more aching is the fact that the country isn't improving. If it were stagnant, that would have been manageable. But Nigeria retrogress each passing year. Trumping its previous failures and takes it to another level.

Well, all will be fine.

jaksmillioniar:
it is d sweetest tin DAT happen to me

rockstarB:
It has to be my first boyfriend. I regret ever dating him. I thought I was smart. I told myself i wouldn't date a guy from school, i needed a long distance thing so i could focus on myself and school. I rejected the guys from school because of him.
My village people reasoned my matter and gave me a liar, I was with him for over 4 years, I saw the signs but couldn't let myself free from him.
Women and mothers here, please educate your daughters on sex, a lady doesnt have to be ashamed for having sex, I was too naive, I told myself "i cant break up with him, he has seen my naked body..."
I enjoy my privacy so I give him the same. I dont visit him unannounced, it has to be him that tells me to come. I was unable to catch him red handed because of this. I supported him financially, emotionally, I pray for him and all of that.
I really dont know how some guys can be intentionally wicked to a lady that clearly loves them, all his family members knew I wasnt the only one he was deceiving. 80% of the money I saved while in school or during service I borrowed him because I believed God would have found him a job before I needed the money. I didnt know my boyfriend was an SSCE holder, he had lied to me all along, even told me about how difficult it is to get a job after school, how his dad has sent his CV to a rich uncle so he could work in his company, yet this guy was an SSCE holder!
Rumour has it that it was me that even paid part of his 100L school fee when he eventually got admitted, he lied he needed the money for something bla bla. He had no bank account and I gave a spare one of mine, the day he started making money he saved them with his new gf. He is out of school cos the guy couldn't even get serious with his educational life. I could go on and on. I didnt curse him with my mouth, my heart does that everytime I remember.
I shot myself in the leg when I concluded not to date a guy in same school as me.
I'm happy I broke with him when I did, it would have traumatized me if I had broken up with him earlier. By the time I did, the love don clear for me eye. I was free from him, he had no hold on me anymore.
Sorry for long post

Astride:
I have it under consideration.

DonroxyII:
Experience is the best teacher , it makes us stronger .... You already take one for your generation. Now, they have someone to tell them never to live for another soul. live for yourself ....

Only give what you can afford to lose without having emotional and psychological breakdown.

I have never had a bad relationship and nobody teaches me about relationship but as an avid reader from the days of Hints, Thrill and Boom and Nollywood movies during the day of Eucharia Anunobi, Sandra Achums , Alex Osifo .....

I have always protect my Heart in any thing I do !!

DonroxyII:
Experience is the best teacher , it makes us stronger .... You already take one for your generation. Now, they have someone to tell them never to live for another soul. live for yourself ....

Only give what you can afford to lose without having emotional and psychological breakdown.

I have never had a bad relationship and nobody teaches me about relationship but as an avid reader from the days of Hints, Thrill and Boom and Nollywood movies during the day of Eucharia Anunobi, Sandra Achums , Alex Osifo .....

I have always protect my Heart in any thing I do !!

DonroxyII:
Mine is not writing my Professional Examination immediately I graduated especially during my NYSC and Immediately after ..... My brain told me , aboy u will regret this thing, do it now !!

I tell am make e forget, I know I will regret it but I will just shrug it off !! ... So , Here ayam !!

rockstarB:
It has to be my first boyfriend. I regret ever dating him. I thought I was smart. I told myself i wouldn't date a guy from school, i needed a long distance thing so i could focus on myself and school. I rejected the guys from school because of him.
My village people reasoned my matter and gave me a liar, I was with him for over 4 years, I saw the signs but couldn't let myself free from him.
Women and mothers here, please educate your daughters on sex, a lady doesnt have to be ashamed for having sex, I was too naive, I told myself "i cant break up with him, he has seen my naked body..."
I enjoy my privacy so I give him the same. I dont visit him unannounced, it has to be him that tells me to come. I was unable to catch him red handed because of this. I supported him financially, emotionally, I pray for him and all of that.
I really dont know how some guys can be intentionally wicked to a lady that clearly loves them, all his family members knew I wasnt the only one he was deceiving. 80% of the money I saved while in school or during service I borrowed him because I believed God would have found him a job before I needed the money. I didnt know my boyfriend was an SSCE holder, he had lied to me all along, even told me about how difficult it is to get a job after school, how his dad has sent his CV to a rich uncle so he could work in his company, yet this guy was an SSCE holder!
Rumour has it that it was me that even paid part of his 100L school fee when he eventually got admitted, he lied he needed the money for something bla bla. He had no bank account and I gave a spare one of mine, the day he started making money he saved them with his new gf. He is out of school cos the guy couldn't even get serious with his educational life. I could go on and on. I didnt curse him with my mouth, my heart does that everytime I remember.
I shot myself in the leg when I concluded not to date a guy in same school as me.
I'm happy I broke with him when I did, it would have traumatized me if I had broken up with him earlier. By the time I did, the love don clear for me eye. I was free from him, he had no hold on me anymore.
Sorry for long post

Astride:
This is very touching.

A similar experience happened to a friend of mine and it traumatized her to the extent her mental faculties was slightly affected. Therapy was what helped her.

I'd say you were really lucky to have gotten out of it in one piece.

rockstarB:
When someone is in love, everyone else sees clearly aside the one who is in love. People that has it easy when it comes to relationship dont know what God has done for them. I really hope your friend is fine now?

tensazangetsu20:
I won't call it a regret per say. If I could rewind the hands of time I would get a job straight out of the university and not run to do a business. Running a business in Nigeria is very very hard and the country seems to get more difficult and poorer with each passing year.

Astride:
Well, you can always take the exam at anytime. Or you feel your brain has parked the bus
?

rockstarB:
You're lucky to not have had a bad one. It's a rare something

rockstarB:
When someone is in love, everyone else sees clearly aside the one who is in love. People that has it easy when it comes to relationship dont know what God has done for them. I really hope your friend is fine now?

tensazangetsu20:
I won't call it a regret per say. If I could rewind the hands of time I would get a job straight out of the university and not run to do a business. Running a business in Nigeria is very very hard and the country seems to get more difficult and poorer with each passing year.

Astride:
Yeah, she's great.
However, she's back with the guy.

Astride:
Yeah, she's great.

However, she's back with the guy.

diamondagent:
I'm regretting that I didn't learn any skill before going to the school and studying what is not helping my situation, soon I will be 26 this year, yet don't have a thousand naira in my bank account currently, no job, no money to even learn a skill, all efforts to look for jobs has been in futility

It seems as if the future looks bleak on my side, I'm ashamed and most often depressed that at my age I can't afford to provide the basic needs of life for my self

This lock down is even making things worse, hunger has reset my body system