I shouldn't have been shy, I should have lived my life.

Please do not look back in regret. You did what you did in the past for a reason. Instead, perhaps you could look at it this way: You have your entire life in front of you to work towards the things you want. You have plenty of time ahead of you to grasp those things that are important to you. What is important is that you look towards the future and act here in the present, in the here and now, instead of wasting your precious present time looking back at a past that you can do nothing to change. I wish you all the best in your present and future moments.

You are young and you still have time to do the things you'd like to do. We all have regrets - things we've done that we wish we hadn't, opportunities we wish we had taken advantage of, but didn't, etc. The great thing about life is that it is never too late. Explore new opportunities, walk down new paths - just get out there! You never know what may be around the corner until you take a peek. Best wishes to you!

If that period of your life has taught you to live life to the fullest, then it hasn't been wasted. If you go through your life looking back at that time with regrets, then you'll be wasting far more than that period of your life. If you're young enough to being close to graduation, then you've still got the whole of your life ahead of you, so it's far too soon for you to be looking back with regrets! The trick is (and this goes for people of all ages) to learn from our experiences, not to get bogged down in regrets for the rest of our lives. And whilst you may regret not having acted on things you wanted, you don't know that the results of such actions would have been good. You mustn't waste your time on "could have beens" and "should have beens"! You are where you are, and it's the direction you're taking in your life, and as a person which counts. So live your life, enjoy it, learn and grow! You have the whole rest of your life to live, so learn from your experience and move forward with your life :-)

I sometimes think in the way you have described or I compare myself to others my age and what they have acheived and what I haven't. However what I will say is STOP! it can be very self destructive to think about what could have been done or what you now feel should have been done, it is much better and much healthier to think, Ok, yes there are things that I wish I had done, but I didn't because I was doing what was right at the time, and at the time, doing those things wasn't my top priority. You could also be even more positive and say that you have learned other things as a result, or even that you have learned not to push your "go out there and do things" voice all the way to the back of your mind, instead when you hear yourself saying, well maybe I could do this, then you just get up and give it a go. It's easy to say don't look back, but the thing is you can't change the past you can only learn from it, and you must always do what is right at any given time, even if that means later on you think things could have been done in another way. Take it from me, I really know what you mean.