THINGS YOU’RE GOING TO REGRET WHEN YOU’RE OLDER

Generally speaking, I see myself as quite sensible. I learn from my mistakes, I’m not in debt, I’m insured and it’s not like I’m drunk on the regular. Yet still, there are some things that time and time again I can’t stop doing and I know I’m going to regret in the long run.

smoking

Let’s kick it off with the worst of the bunch. Smoking. My god I wish I had never lit op that very first cigarette (a sentence my dad is going to indefinitely remind me of) and never gotten hooked so I would never have to beat the habit. Anyways, stating it isn’t going to change anything, and although the signs of smoking aren’t visible yet (besides its stench and how expensive it is), in a few years time my skin is going to look like a Shar-pei and I’m going to be cursing the day I decided to give smoking a go. Dear readers, please don’t ever start, it’s a horrible habit.

laying out in the sun

Sticking to things that are going to make me resemble a wrinkled dog, I can’t help but love walking around with a bit of a sun kissed skin tone. Luckily, the days in which I would lay out in the sun a bake without using any sun tan lotion are long behind me, but even when you do use sun tan lotion, it’s still not good for you. But that color, ugh that color is what can’t help but love. Besides, by the time I’m old I’m sure plastic surgery and botox will be better than they are now – a lie I like to keep telling myself.

sleeping with your make-up still on 

Holy hell what have I gotten myself into, I’ve entered a battle field cause this too is something I always forget to do. The fact that I’m not yet strutting around with a face full of wrinkles is a miracle but now that my skin is a few shades darker, I haven’t been smearing on any makeup so I guess the sun isn’t always that bad. In girl logic that is.

not working out

Okay, so I recently started working out twice a week (boxing to be exact) but that’s about all I do. Look, I could easily be more conscious about what I eat three days a week and all would be alright, but there comes a point where everything I eat will head straight to my hips and I won’t be able to loose any of it. Unless you start taking better care of your fitness and food regime now that you’re young. But that’s something I still need to wrap my head around.

not putting any money into your savings account

If I had started setting aside 50 euros every month starting on my 18th birthday and had raised the amount to 100 once I turned 25, then I would currently have €7200,-. SEVEN THOUSAND EUROS. Do you know how many pairs of shoes I could buy with that? And how many trips abroad I could book? Damn. To be fair though, I’ve improved a bit and now transfer money to my savings as much as I can, but I just wish I had started doing this when I was younger.