NOPE

You don’t have to listen.  You don’t have to change, nope, absolutely not, uhu, nein and nyet.  It is your life, so you live it the way you want.  Regrets?  You can handle them.  Right? 

How do you know you can handle them? Looking at old age from mid-life is similar to looking at mid-life from the perspective of a teenager.  We can’t really imagine it because from our much younger vantage point, we feel invincible, and those old farts?  Well they look too vulnerable.  That’s not us.

Here’s the thing.  We don’t deal with regret in our invincible years, we face regret in our old age, in the full-fledged throes of vulnerability.  We face regret in the very years we’re the least capable of doing anything about them.

Our resistance to change is nothing more than our fear of fear.  That, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said, is the only thing we have to fear.

“...fear, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes 

needed efforts to convert retreat into advance...”