HAVE you reached the age of realising how stupid you were when young? These decisions, made then, have come back to bite you:
Getting a huge Celtic tattoo
When you were 23 it seemed like an excellent idea to go to a tattoo parlour in Magaluf at 3am and have a big Celtic design tattooed on your upper arm. However, now you’re a 47 year-old accountant it just means you can’t take your shirt off on your annual family Center Parcs holiday.
Treating your body like shit for two decades
In your 20s it seemed as if your body could run off instant noodles and continental lager forever. Well, you’re paying for it now. A decade of dietary armageddon has left you visibly aged, prone to illness and with the delusion that necking enough Yakult will magically reverse the damage.
Constantly dying your hair
Dying your hair when you’re younger is a laugh, as every woman and man who has experimented with bleach will know. However, when you reach your forties and your hair has turned into a brittle straw-like substance that shatters when you put a comb through it, you’ll regret not leaving it alone.
Buying an electric guitar or similar
In your 30s, when you were in denial about ageing, you made some massive frivolous purchase. You thought to yourself, ‘No, it’s definitely not too late to start playing guitar, and it definitely won’t seem tragic.’ Well, it turned out that it was and it did. Just be glad you didn’t remortgage your house to buy a Mercedes E-Class.
Having children
You call them the light of your life to anyone who asks, but, deep down, there isn’t a day that goes by where you don’t fantasise about how much nicer life would be if you didn’t spend an hour a day scrubbing bodily fluids from your soft furnishings.
