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How To Avoid A Life of Regret
Otherwise, they will drive you crazy
Socrates said the definition of life is one you don’t regret on your deathbed.
I cannot think of a better way to sum up life than the one above. We are all here for a short time, but that time feels like an eternity. Thus, we do not act with a sense of urgency in our affairs.
We are slow to change. Slow to criticise ourselves and look deep within. There is always tomorrow, we can make changes then. For now, I wish to remain as I am.
Socrates also said that the “unexamined life is one not worth living.” To go through life without questioning what you are hoping to achieve is a travesty. Yet, we are all prone to doing this from time to time.
Regret is something we will all live with at some point. There are countless moments in life where we could have done something and didn’t, or taken a different path and it didn’t work the way we hoped.
Then there are times when we don’t follow our dreams and decide to take the safe route. Unless we rectify this at a later point we will always be left with a nagging sense of what if.
It is better to take a chance and fail, then never take that chance and be left to wonder what might have happened.
