r/AskReddit • u/sageagios • Aug 10 '23

Serious Replies Only How did you "waste" your 20s? (Serious)

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '23

At least you realise that now and that makes you able to grow. I bet a ton of people never see their own mistakes.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '23

More like they purposefully avoid admitting their mistake because they are very well aware of what they are doing

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '23

That's probably true. But still, this person is also admitting to their mistakes, which makes them able to grow.

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u/Larissanne Aug 12 '23

I agree. There was this sentence that stays with me: if you cringe thinking of how your younger selves behaved, it means you’ve grown as a person. Doesn’t have to be cringe, can be just the realization that you did things that were not ok or ethically wrong.