Scientific Regret

I was just reminded today of something by Nadine Stair I first read something like twenty years ago:

If I Had My Life to Live Over
I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
I would take more chances.
I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

You see, I'm one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day…

(The complete text can be found here).

Science has finally caught up with popular folk wisdom. A recent study showed that, as people get older, we do indeed regret more the fun things we did not do rather than the mistakes we made (at least the minor ones).

Just a reminder to anyone out there who, like me, tend to always be looking far into the future.