[dev_tty01]

The parent comment is about doing something you don't want to do rather than doing something you don't enjoy. Important distinction. You did military service because you wanted to do it. It had real value to you. You did not continue doing something that you did not actually want to do. I would say that was a good decision for you. You didn't enjoy it but you valued it. It is easy to get these conflated.

[philipov]

There's a difference between wanting to do something, and not wanting to not have done something.

[zogrodea]

Someone could have reasons for wanting to do something and reasons for not wanting to do it to. In the comment being discussed, that’s the desire to quit the military (the person did not want to waste their time) and the desire not to quit (not out of eating to be in the military but because those who quit faced negative consequences).