““In the long run, people of every age and in every walk of life seem to regret not having done things much more than they regret things they did.” And of course, that is the folklore of the deathbed: No one dies wishing they’d spent more time at the office, but they do regret not having been up in a balloon, not seeing the Pyramids, not having pursued the girl. Gilbert argues that the reason we regret inaction more is that it’s easy for us to rationalize taking action, if only because we can say we learned something from the experience. We prefer to think of ourselves as courageous, if foolish, rather than cowardly and also foolish.””
