I had this thought after remembering one time that my DT (digital technologies) teacher at high school suggested that some of the class could try join a hacking competition. Nothing ever came of it, but I thought it was interesting at the time.
What’s really interesting is seeing the choices I made, and asking “what if I did the other thing”. Just off the top of my head, I could be still at uni doing research on maths or physics, I could be working on designing new robots for who knows what, or branching off even earlier, I could have been a doctor like my parents.
I’m only 24, so it seems like I might be a bit young for this kind of thinking, but there’s still a lot of things I could have done differently.
Having a little regret is normal. However, when it comes to “paths not taken”, you CANNOT know for sure where that path takes you in detail.
Think about all the good stuff that has happened so far. If you had taken a different path, it could have been even better. They could also be a lot worse.
If everything went to plan in my life I definitely wouldn’t be on the same spot right now, for better or for worse. But you can never know for sure.
That’s how I deal with regrets about the past. As a fact, I did even try out a career path, just because “I could be regretting not taking this opportunity”, only to end up regretting about taking that path