Not so surprisingly, I am only a few weeks late.
The topic was about regret and I thought "why just stick to things I have regretted." Unlike some people, I don't have many regrets in life. Well, I haven't lived long enough to regret things that I did or didn't do. I prefer to be happy and to live and possibly do enough stupid shit that will make me laugh when I'm old and wrinkly - no, I won't have many regrets even then I suppose. The few regrets I may have then, I'd not sit around moping about it.
But I'll never regret being an advocate of YOLO.
I don't wish to repeat the same life again nor I wish to be reborn - you only live once; so make it count. Even saying it sounds a little stupid but YOLO and do what you gotta do. I'm going to live the way I want to, pile up bad decisions, be the way that I am and encourage others to live on their own terms and above all that zero regrets.
However, I have a few regrets. One of them was wasting my time doing something that was going to be an utterly defeated attempt - if only I had realized sooner. I had realized, I cannot be what others expect me to be nor I can try and fit in with people around me. It's not that my wants and needs are far too different from them - others have more complicated needs while I'm somebody with simple taste and choices. That has prompted my "YOLO" attitude, towards myself. I realized, I can't keep anyone happy by being unhappy myself, although some will disagree. Since the realization had dawned on me, I have been on the mission to make myself happy. I had wasted years trying to be something I cannot be but I didn't waste much time regretting over it - there is no point.
A friend of mine had reminded me of an advice I had forgotten - Let Shit Go. I only have this one life to live and enough people-pleasing had been done. So far, I have told everyone to be themselves, to live their life the way they want to and have kept all my judgments to myself; but I never took up the advice I gave others - I needed that reminder. And think about Elsa, when she had let go of that (fart possibly) she became awesome – holding it (the fart) in has its consequences like a snowed in Arendelle. So, let shit or fart or shart, whatever it is, go and be free. Life is too precise – neither long nor short but for actually living you don’t have much time. Think of it this way, achieving any dreams is hard when you’re in your 60s or 70s – not impossible but hard. And besides why wait for that long – live in the now. You’re dreaming right now, make it happen.
