Foresighting

"If only I had..." must be one of the most ruefully overused phrases in English, next to "If I were..." and other such iffiness.

It takes a lot of foresight to not have to use such lines, and it is almost a certainty that even if we manage to suppress our saying of them, such thoughts have crossed our minds before.

There are very few regrets in my life. I will say that I have not regretted anything I've done this year, except perhaps that I spent a bit too much time enjoying myself. Heh.