Hindsight is 20/20

Yesterday my new reading glasses arrived, making everything clearer but so inconvenient. Trying to remember the damn things, constantly cleaning them, pushing them back when they fall off my face. All these things I never had to worry about, but I also couldn't finish a magazine article without my eyes crossing over and seeing double.

What I actually want to write about is hindsight. How when you look back on your life, everything seem clearer, you have perfect, 20/20 vision. You realise how stupid your stupid mistakes were. Suddenly everything that one friend did was SO irritating. You can't believe you ever thought that haircut was a good look on you. All these things that you wish you knew when it was relevant so that you could do things differently.

I think the most common little hindsight realisation is that you always wish you didn't waste your time with those stupid/ creepy/ rude/ childish boys you were so "in love" with. Most of the poetry I post/ed is about a guitar player who was 7 years older than me. I was 13/14 and totally smitten, I didn't know how to deal with all the "love" bottled up inside of me - I felt like I was going to lose my mind. I couldn't tell him or anyone how I felt so I wrote and wrote and wrote.

I just post the most sensible of what I can find, and even then I laugh at how much time I wasted on this one guy. Every time I read a poem again before posting it I giggle, thinking back to how I would sit in my maths classes and write poems instead of working. I wasted a year of my life thinking he was "the one" - crazy, young and in love.

So look back, and live life to the fullest. Life will always be full of regrets and mistakes, but that's how we learn and that's how we can look ahead to a better future filled with less regrets. But while we're young we're supposed to be dumb :)