Things you THINK you’ll regret when you’re old (but won’t)
COLUMN - Last week on Facebook I saw this Buzzfeed post go around: ‘Things you’ll regret when you’re old’. As I was reading it, I thought a young person must have written it. To my amazement, when I got a glimpse of the writer Mike Spohr, he didn’t seem that young at all. I guessed above forty, old enough to know what he wrote was a bunch of crap. Had he been collecting clichés amoung the youth? Read my comments on all 37 items of the list I prefer to call: ‘Things you THINK you’ll regret when old’.
1. Not traveling when you had the chance.
Traveling becomes infinitely harder the older you get, especially if you have a family and need to pay the way for three-plus people instead of just yourself.
Travelling is completely overrated. And wrong, because of environmental issues.
2. Not learning another language.
You’ll kick yourself when you realize you took three years of language in high school and remember none of it.
This one is sooo wasted on the Dutch.
3. Staying in a bad relationship.
No one who ever gets out of a bad relationship looks back without wishing they made the move sooner.