Regret vs. dreams, part 1

Today's quote, courtesy of John Barrymore by way of Lifehacker: "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

While Lifehacker took the "age ain't nothing but a number" approach, I instantly thought of the opposite: no matter how young you are, and how much time you theoretically have left, you're just waiting out the clock if you've given up on making your dreams a reality. By this metric, I know some people who have been old a very long time. I was one of those people once. More on that tomorrow later.