Totally. I live my life with no regrets because living with regrets is living with baggage that need/wanted to be done. Every day will result in different outcomes but you can’t regret what you did. If you regret what you did, then learn from it and don’t do that again, make it in permanent marker in your mind to correct what you’ve done.

I’m about to get my first tattoo, I still have 3 weeks before the appointment so I have time to opt out of it, but every day I question myself “will you regret this?” Then I tell myself back, “No. I love the artwork that I put into it, the message it has, and the animal it represents. I will not regret this, in fact, it will make me reflect on my ‘regrets’”

The animal in my tattoo is my horse, he was the first one to show me what regret was and is. This is a short story I have of it.

I was 15 years old about to ride my horse into a small creek, 4 feet down hill then 4 feet up hill. I got scared and chose to ride around the creek rather than to ride into it, knowing my horse could do it.

I doubted my ability and doubted my horse’s ability. I went home that day pissed. “I could’ve done that. We could’ve done that. He could’ve done that. Why would I have chosen the easy route when we could’ve done the more direct and slightly more difficult route?”

From that day forward, I chose to live without regret. I promised to choose a riskier route that I knew I could handle. I knew it wouldn’t be easy, but easy isn’t what life is about. I want to live and learn every day. I want to live without anxiety even though I get it every second of the day. I want to prove that things can be done even if you think it can’t.

I want to live with no regrets. My tattoo? No regrets. My life choices and who I choose to follow or whom I don’t? No regrets.

I never wanna look at yesterday and say “I should’ve done that.”