Living life with no regrets

The only way to not have any regrets at all is if every decision you have ever made, in your life, worked out absolutely perfectly. And of course, "perfectly" is very subjective. Maybe you made a mistake and had sex without protection and you or your partner became pregnant as a result, at a time in which one or both people involved were not ready to become a parent. Is this a mistake? It would be very easy to look at it as such. Is it something that you should regret, or would regret in twenty years? Probably not; you probably love your kid and wouldn't change a thing about some perceived mistake you made twenty years ago.

While I have made some mistakes in my lifetime, and looking back on things, knowing what I know now, I would have probably acted differently, but at the same time, I do not dwell on what I perceive to be mistakes. I recognize that my life is what it is, I am who I am, because of these supposed mistakes; and I happen to like who I am. That is where the real difference is. Do you dwell on your perceived mistakes, unable to move forward from them, or do you recognize them as experiences that you learn from, and grow from.

Living your life with no regrets doesn't mean to do whatever you feel like doing, when you feel like doing it, it means recognizing that mistakes are an inevitable part of life, and that the fun part of life is learning from your experiences. You learn more from screwing up than you do from keeping the status quo.

Jam it back in, in the dark.