Ask HN: What were your naivetés in your twenties? 16 years ago
That you never regret the big fun adventures that you decide to go on.
When faced with the decision, it can be really hard to take 6 months off to travel to the destination of your dreams - but in hindsight, these are the best times of your life and you usually don't regret them.
I recently sat with a 96 year old man, and his stories were about his trips to his hometown in Europe and to the United States, not about the job that he took or the project that he completed.