Sometimes when I have a break and nothing to do, then I take the time to reflect. I ask myself would I regret something. Then I found this quote, "Save regrets for your 50s and 60s"
Shit, I am in the 50s.
| I don't want to sound melodramatic, but no matter how happy someone can be at my age, you regret something. My coach told me once to divide regrets into three groups: |  |
The things you did that you wish you hadn’t.
As an aged individual, I should laugh about past mistakes. After all, you can't change them and best is to learn from those mistakes. I can joke about them with my aged friends and the family. They made me who I am.
The things you wish you had done but didn’t.
At my age, I am definitely sorry for certain things in hind side, but I have the optimism that I would do them now if I wanted.
Is it not worth the time to question whether you actually made the best decision at the time by not doing what you have done.
The only thing I do is to waste my time, as I can’t ever know what would have happened, good or bad. So I trained myself to let it go.
The cost of the time I’ve wasted.
For me, the main regret I have is the lost time. I have the sense that it is getting more and more likely that I will die without having done things. That's why I have started to do things that I normally wouldn't do, e.g. having built my own camper van.
What could I have accomplished in my non-working time instead of considering vacation the best time to recover from work or sticking to a job for several years, that gave me nothing beside the income
I know that certain things are impossible, or I am really not interested, e.g. become a billionaire. So if I don’t draw the wrong card and get cancer or die in a car accident, I might take my chances and try new things before I die.
I recognize that I have done better than quite a few other people. I have a lot of imagination, so I’m looking forward to star a solo tour with my camper van in early April. 6 months on the road.
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