Last Updated on July 17, 2023

Over the past six years, I spent time regrating and wishing my life was different. I am thirty-six years old. The things I regret most are other people making decisions for me. I don’t necessarily regret the decisions I made myself that should give you some insight.
I regret not sticking with a kickboxing class I took when I was sixteen. I was good at it. But I let my mother talk me out of it. She felt I could spend my time elsewhere and be more productive in other avenues. To which, at the time, I regretfully agreed.
The issue with regret is you can’t go back in time and change it. Someone else decided for you, and it wasn’t the right decision for you, and how you deal with it is how you turn out as an adult. Sure, I wish I could change it in time, but I can’t.
I recently went back and signed up for a martial arts gym and still do it for fun. However, the big dreams of being a world-top athlete are gone. However, I still have fun doing it and enjoy helping the younger guys avoid making the same mistakes that I made.
Sometimes you have to accept the things you cannot change and do the best with what you got. I might become the world’s top writer in my field, which is a challenge big enough for me it helps me be creative differently and more safely.
The worst thing you can do is cling to something you cannot change, and the best thing to do is move and accept what is instead of what could have been.