Do you have any regrets?

This is one question that every celebrity has been asked more than a few times. It creeps into every interview. Be it on television or in the print medium, celebrities, and even wannabes, are asked this with boring regularity. Most incredibly, their unfailing answer to the question is, “No, I have no regrets at all.” I am amazed that people can say they’ve gone through their lives without regrets. Not one lousy regret? How is that possible? An angry word, a little rudeness, a letter they didn’t write, something they said, a bad decision, tiny bit of indifference, a casual remark…there must be something they think they shouldn’t have done. There must be something they wish they had done differently. They cannot have lived without making mistakes. Me, I have plenty of regrets in life. Oh boy, there’re so many things I wish I had done differently.

But, really, to say that one has no regrets in life smacks of arrogance. Or, maybe these guys don’t even think about what they’re saying. Or, worse still, maybe they actually mean it. Maybe they really have no regrets.