Thought for the Day

Received this quote in an email:

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

--- Sydney J. Harris, American journalist (1917 - 1986)

Things I did not do that I regret: I didn't apply to Harvard, thinking it would be too hard for me. I would have loved it, I now realize. I turned down the honors program at my college; I didn't want to be different than the rest of the students, and I was intimidated by the reading list. I wonder who I would have met. I didn't invite my parents to my swearing-in as a lawyer. I didn't realize it would be such a big deal, in Faneuil Hall, with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court presiding.

Live and learn.