Consider this : may your regrets be from loving too much instead of not enough

The only advice I can give you is this: do not be afraid to love.  Open your heart wide. Throw back the curtains. Let the sun in. Prop the front door open, make a pitcher of lemonade, invite the world in, and have a fabulous party! You never know who you might meet.

Don't be afraid to fall in love with ideas, with places, with subjects, with people. You'll fall in and out of love many times, but this is how we figure it out. This is how we learn what we love, this is how we recognize what we want, this is how we know what we need, and maybe just as importantly, what we do not need. But if we don't immerse ourselves in this crazy life in the first place, we never get the chance.

Sometimes, it will seem easier not to throw yourself into the fray. You could get disappointed. You could get rejected. You could get hurt! Better to be the one doing the disappointing, the rejecting, the hurting. That's the easier way, it seems. But in my (imperfect) experience, my most poignant regrets are of the times I could have rushed headlong into love- into life!- and did not, out of fear.

If you take a chance on love, you might regret it. But as the cliche goes, if you don't, you almost certainly will. Maybe, as Miller said, we can only hope to end up with the right regrets. Ideas, places, and (especially) people will disappoint you. They will wound you. They will not live up to your standards. But they will also astonish you. They will amaze you. They will bring you more joy than you could imagine.

I wish you as much luck and love as possible, with as few regrets as possible, but if they happen (and they probably will), may your regrets be from loving too much instead of not enough.

-Gabrielle