‘They’ say that, when you’re old and grey, you only regret the things you never did not the ones you did. At 21 the things I regret are sore and painful thoughts which I attempt to avoid thinking about at every given moment.

It is alien to me that the pain I’m feeling now will become and irrelevant and un-thought provoking remembrance of something past. Perhaps it is not that we do not regret anything when we’re old but rather we’ve forgotten the level of importance and shame they brought to us at the present.

That’s not a bad thing by any conciliation.

I admire those who can out rightly say they regret nothing. They may be a little disappointed with a choice they made or a path they took but to actually define it as something they wished had never happened and would undo at any moment is unbelievable to them and completely irrelevant. To have faith and belief in every choice, decision or action you have taken was correct is an awe-inspiring concept to someone like me.

I think I probably, if I noted all my 21 years of life events down would regret, almost more than certainly, 75% of them.

That’s a pretty huge figure but it’s honest, although I’m no statistician by any stretch of the word but based upon a weekly number of decisions I take and there outcomes I’d pinpoint 75% as a fairly accurate estimation. Is that sad? I wouldn’t say so. It means I’m learning, surely? And I have the ability to identify where I think I’m going wrong. With time, that guess-timation will decrease significantly, I expect.

Perhaps there still a chance for me to be one of those magically regret-less people…..