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REGRET | LIFE CHOICES
Two Decisions In Life That I Sort Of Regret
Even though I claim to live with no regrets.
I often say that I live with no regrets. And I really don’t. Every decision I have made has led me to where I am today, and I’m pretty damn happy these days.
Of course, having regrets is pointless. It wastes energy focusing on something that you can’t change in the past, meanwhile taking energy away from building a better future. So I try not to give regret much energy. But of course, there are always those niggling moments where I just wonder how life could have turned out differently had I decided to go in another direction.
The First Regret
My first moment of regret happened when I was just 21 or 22 years old and it would have been around 1998/1999. I was living on Cape Breton Island in Eastern Canada after finishing my college years on Prince Edward Island.
After doing some big traveling in my late teens, I was starting to get antsy with my small-town life and the fact that I hadn’t been traveling in a while. I yearned to see more parts of the world, and with the job I was working, and the fact that I was barely scraping by financially, I couldn’t see any hope of that happening anytime soon.
