How I Live My Best Life by Embracing My Biggest Fear

ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE
The Honest Perspective
3 min readOct 6, 2021

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I’m not scared of taking risks, I’m terrified of a life of regret.

Image by Kevin Schmid on Unsplash

I am terrified of regret.

I always have been, although that’s a strange preoccupation for a young child and I have no idea when it started. I do think, however, that the idea of regret came from having adventurous parents whose lives were never bound by the rules they were born into.

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ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE
The Honest Perspective

Writing on the female experience, race, motherhood & self-development. Columnist at The Green Parent magazine. Follow me on IG @adeola_moonsong.