I like to think that I've made a lot of stupid choices growing up... kind of. When I say this, I'm referring to the abundance of regret I've had over the years of losing several of my favorite save files, individual Pokémon, and teams because I wanted to restart a game but wasn't thinking about things at the time. I get that we're able to learn from our mistakes, but sometimes those mistakes sting more than they should, at least in the moment. In total, I've lost over a dozen Shinies (most of them random encounters, I might add) and hundreds, maybe even thousands of hours over several Pokémon games because of this.
Honestly, the more I think about it, the more I realize this has consistently hurt my interest in Pokémon more than it helps. I love hearing other people's special stories about their past experiences. The reason why I'm like this, though, is largely out of jealousy...