kaylayuh, we all make our mistakes. What's the most important is to learn from them and don't repeat them.
I let my very first rescued budgie be wild for a long moment, because he was rescued and I felt at that time I didn't want to give him more hard time. Later it was hard to make him social bird- I still have to work on his behavior.
What's bothering me when people treat alive creatures as temporary entertainment or something like that. I can't fully express that, because my English is not good enough(working on it).
What I mean that some dummy people think, that they are human and only they have privileges to be treted with respect. Instead they show no respect for they pets, they mistreated them, etc