One minute writing

I've made a lot of mistakes in my years. Most people say that they regret nothing that they have done. I think most people are lying to themselves or at least to the general public. It sounds more poetic to say that you have no regrets. Now the old and obviously about to die may say it and mean it, but they have good reason to, they are done. Tell you the truth I think they regret things too. You can't tell me the Marlboro man dying of lung cancer with a tube through his throat on his death bed didn't regret that first pack of cigarettes. The point is not that shouldn't regret individual things; because honestly if you would do nothing different knowing everything you know or think you know now, that almost means you didn't learn anything from any of those thousands of mistakes. I have some and not ashamed to say it. I will also say that to weigh a lifetime on individual events would be retarded. It is almost like saying the sum of all parts is equal to the whole, it isn't. Live life and try not to make the same mistake to many times. The only thing that I have ever wanted in life is to succeed in everything that I move forward in. Have I always won, no. But, I have had a hell of time trying. It is okay to regret things, what is not okay to not do something you want to do because you are afraid of regretting it later if it doesn't turn out well. Mandela said it best "it is not inadequacy we fear, it is greatness or the possibility of greatness."

When your desire to succeed in life is equivalent to your desire to breathe (while someone is holding you under water) then you are on the path grasshopper.