> "The only things you will regret are the things you didn't do"
I hate that statement. For one it's full of survivor bias. I doubt the person that caught AIDS and died at 30 thought they were glad they decided to sleep with that person.
You gave an example of robbing a bank. If someone robbed a bank and went to prison for 20 years I doubt they were happy for choosing to do it.
The wisdom of old(er) age is simultaneously knowing that and not being bothered by that. I mean the feeling of regret, not you hating that statement LOL.
Its the mid-life crisis types that get all wound up and messed up about the wouldda-shouldda game. Its a bell shaped curve of being too young to have a past to fulminate over, to OMG I messed everything up, to the new definition of the past is stuff that no longer matters.
Due to wildly varying maturity rates this happens somewhere between maybe 25 and ... never.
I hate that statement. For one it's full of survivor bias. I doubt the person that caught AIDS and died at 30 thought they were glad they decided to sleep with that person.
You gave an example of robbing a bank. If someone robbed a bank and went to prison for 20 years I doubt they were happy for choosing to do it.