1) Not having the greatest social skills, though it isn't really a decision per say; I can't help but feel like things would have turned out a lot differently had I been more open with other people and knew how to properly interact with other people. It might have prevented a lot of the bullying I went through in middle school and now my self-confidence for the longest time ever has been at its lowest. The whole ordeal with my former social issues has been holding me back in so many ways.
2) Listening to my mom. Yep, I said it.
My mom was incredibly overprotective when I was still a preteen. Wouldn't let me do half the stuff my friends got to do, always wanted me around the house, put a lot of fear into me as a child to comply with what she wanted (yelling at me to the point where I would start to cry, for one of many examples).
So I listened to her. It cost me my best friend at the time (I'm not going to go into too much detail there), which then promptly caused me to lose all the friends I had, as he had managed to turn my entire group of friends against me afterwards. Me trusting my mom had then led her to make a lot of bad decisions, many of them costing my happiness. That's just really summing it up. I can't help but feel had I been a lot more resistant to the things she wanted for me, I probably wouldn't be the person I am today. A lot of the stuff that she taught me growing up eventually proved to be false, as I began going through middle school.
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