.... Regrets and the future ...

When I was 14 years old I decided to stop my classical education in high school and go for a more practical education of cook school school. When I announced this at school the principal asked a meeting with my dad, give him sermon about wasting a valuable education and all option for a descent future, warning him that in future I would regret the choice I made.



(try to recognize me in the blurry picture of my last year cook school :-), the winner gets a free dinner at my place)

I was very much impressed by what they guy said and started to doubt a little, till the moment my dad said: in life you should never regret things that you have done, only the things that you did not do. Still today I do not regret my choice of that moment, yes of course it made my path to university very difficult and rather cumbersome, but till today I feel happy I took the decision at that moment to go for an education as chef.

it has thought me in many different ways so much about life, still today, that regretting it would be denial of the beauty of the experience. It is the same way I feel to day about decision I took in my life. Yes I sometimes make the mistake like Graham Bell said: When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

Because the door I closed is not really closed, the friendships I still have are keeping them open and make me look for doors beyond the ones that have opened. I know I will be able in the near future to open up these doors with the helps of my friends.