An year from now, you may wish you had started today

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        The title says it all. So I want to keep the post very small.

        We humans have a qualities not many other animals can have. We are curious, we are ambitious, we are smart, we think, we fear, we regret and we fear regretting but the quality I am addressing in this post is we regret fearing.

        We fear taking risks at right time and we don't act. We even fear changes, the changes that will happen if we made the risky choice. We ignore the thoughts that comes in our minds, only out of that fear. We fear that if we fail, we might get scolded by elders or spouse, we might regret later, we may loose money, time or respect by acting to the thoughts. We don't make the choice that could change our life.

        After some time, when we don't have the choice, we regret that we should have taken the risk that time and we regret being a coward. This regret is very common because even if we are risk taker. If out of 10 risks I take one, or say 2, I will still regret not taking the other 8. There is a dialogue in a movie whose name I don't remember.

        At the end of our life, we don't cherish or regret things we did, how good or bad they may be. But we do regret things we did not do, how bad they may be.

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