Jodi Wellman

And there are two types of regrets.

One is the regret about the stupid stuff we did and wished we hadn't.

Those are called regrets of commission.

And funny enough, they don't really matter as much near the end, especially because they kind of soften with time.

The regrets I am deeply, gravely, dare I say, concerned about are the regrets about the paths we didn't take, the things we didn't do.

And those are called regrets of omission.

And they tend to,

To grab us, especially near the end, that sort of wistful sense of, oh, man, like, what if I did go back to school?

Or what if I did change my career?

Because I always wanted to study veterinarian science.

Or what if I did ask him out?

Or what if I did go and, like, I never got to go and visit the Mediterranean coast or, you know, fill in the blanks.

There's no shortage of things.

And those are the opportunities we have, Mike, that I get just quite honestly, like, all worked up about over here because I call them pregrats.

If you can identify those things now that you might have feelings about if your deathbed came tonight, well, we have this great opportunity.

Like, we're not dying tonight, you know, for a vast majority of us.

And we get to say, holy – like, I get to take a step forward.

Like, if that Mediterranean visit, like, would really make my life – like, that would make my life feel complete, I could plan that and book the ticket.

Or I could go and I could –

Go and apply to go back to school, even if it's not easy, especially if it's not easy.