With almost twenty years old, you probably think I will not have anything serious to regret. "You're a little girl; you know nothing about life yet". That may be right. But when I look backwards at my short life, I am no proud. I regret things as everybody does when the nostalgia strikes back. Because the past is a powerful anchor and I am no professional at weigh anchor and sail across the ocean of my life.
First of all, I regret not being able to keep in touch with the people I love most. When a stage of life ends, people part ways. It is inevitable. You evolve, changes your hair, you grow and even the way you see the world is completely different. You think it is okay. "No matter what distance is between us, nothing is going to break us apart". But distance doesn't forgive. And neither does the time. They are the butchers of the affective bonds. In a heartbeat, you find yourself alone and that person who had earned a shaft in your heart, now is nothing else that a painful and empty hole in your present life.
Sadly, this is not by far the only situation I regret. I am sorry for not holding steady on my decisions. For not fighting for what I believed and not keep chasing my dreams. I started two years ago a double degree of physics and mathematics because my father and all the teachers kept telling me that the options I wanted were not good enough for me. That I had more potential, that I would waste my life doing something related to arts, which is what I'd love to be doing right now. Instead, I am stuck with impossible problems, millions of numbers and Greek letters, a huge brain teaser that has given me nothing but depression. And I also regret, being so afraid of letting my father down that I keep going on with this nonsense. I try hard to like it, to at least not be a failure in what I have chosen. But I have chosen wrong and that is undeniable. It is exhausting. It is sad. It is hopeless. I feel like a weak bird trying to break free from an iron cage.
Related to this, I regret my relationship with my father. We have a strong character, both of us. We have never got along very well. When I look back, I see myself wanting him to be proud of me. I see myself failing. I see him shouting, hitting his anger on me, his own frustrations as I were his reflection on a mirror. But I wasn’t. I was only a child with a lack of love from his father. Then my family broke apart and now I am sorry for not being able to realize sooner of the truth. The truth which states that I will never be able to make him proud. He will never be able of loving me like normal fathers do. That is a fact, and I should have never let him interfere with my decisions. I regret that.
Lastly, I regret not being able to express my feelings. Not only talking in a romantic way. I pushed him away because I was scared. Scared of falling in love. Scared of having my heartbroken. My fear step into and he was the one that got hurt. I’ll never forgive myself for that.
Now, I am going through a time of depression. I haven’t told anyone, not even my mother. I am too embarrassed. They keep passing through my side with their big smiles and all those projects, and they don’t have any idea that all my smiles are fake. They will never find out that when I return home, my pillow awaits for me ready to hold my tears and black thoughts all night.
But I am just a little girl who knows nothing about life. All the hits I received from my own blood, all the times I moved from a city leaving people behind, all the days I spend in my bed because I hate those infernal university classes, all the times I had to pretend to be alright just because I am unable of telling the truth to my loved ones... All of that turns pale in the world we are living. I am aware of that. But this is my reality, and this is what I can’t help to regret.
Nevertheless, I’m trying my best to get of this. I’m trying to let nostalgia behind. I’m trying to open myself a little bit more and to start fighting for what I believe again. I will get up and go forward, because I know I am a fighter. I’ve always been a fighter.
I like to think that beyond the clouds, the sky is always blue.