Life is filled with regrets. Ask anyone around you what their regrets are and they usually have no difficulty coming up with many items on their “regret list.” And for some reason our twenties are ripe for a field of regrets.
生活一直充满遗憾。问问你周围的人他们有没遗憾的事情，他们会易如反掌的列出一大堆“遗憾清单”。因为某些缘由，20多岁最易犯了错误的年龄。
Perhaps it’s because as we get older we look back on that period of adulthood as the height of freedom and autonomy. As move into middle age, we look back and wish that we had made better choices and taken more opportunities. Here’s a list of things that we regret not doing in our 20s.
或许是由于伴随年龄的增长，当大家第三回顾那段时光，会发现那是一段充满自由和独立的时光。伴随大家步入中年，大家常常期望：如果大家能再有更多选择的机会多好啊！以下就列举了一些假如大家在20来岁没做就会让大家后悔的事情：
1. Travelling more
多旅游
I regret not travelling more, and so does nearly everyone that I have asked. Before kids, and mortgages and marriages, when our commitments and expenses were lower, the opportunities for travel were much greater, but for some reason many of us thought we’d always have time for travel later.
我后悔没到更多的地方去旅游，而且几乎我问过的每一个人都会如此说。在有孩子之前、在抵押贷款和结婚之前，在大家需要承担的责任和花销较少时，正是旅游的大好机，但因为种种缘由，大家总感觉大家将来会有更多的时间去旅游。
We dreamed of visiting the pyramids of Egypt, surfing off the Hawaiian coast, dining at a Parisian café, drinking espresso in Rome, trekking through the rainforest, and so much more. Sadly, many of us never made these journeys and the opportunity passed us by.
大家梦想过去埃及看金字塔，在夏威夷海边冲浪，在巴黎的咖啡店共进晚餐，在罗马品尝香浓的咖啡，徒步穿越热带雨林等等诸这样类的计划。可悲的是，大多数人都没付诸行动，只不过看着机会白白溜走。
2. Investing early
早投资
How many times have we kicked ourselves for not starting our 401Ks，in our twenties, for not putting our excess cash in long term investments, for not investing in our future early. No matter how much we try, we can never get back the head start that we missed. Playing catch up in our 40’s and 50’s is very difficult.
多少次回想大家都恨不能踢自己一脚：为何不在20来岁就开始401K（我们注：美国的一种养老金规范）计划，为何没将多余的现金用于长期投资，为何没早早的为大家将来投资。不管大家再如何努力，错过的时光都不会重来了。等到大家四五十岁的时候再奋起直追已为时已晚了。
3. Being more responsible with spending
更适当的安排支出
In order to invest in our retirement or save for that down payment, we would have needed to make wiser financial spending choices. Things like buying or holding on to that perfectly reliable used car, instead of splurging on the new model…because we could, eating out less and saving for a house instead, buying fewer shoes and purses and clothes and paying off student loans sooner. So many saving opportunities lost, money spent on tangible things, instead of on the future.
为了退休后的投资或房屋的首付，大家需要更适当的投资理财。譬如说买一辆很好的二手车，而不是把钱浪费在新款车型上……大家也可以降低外出就餐，攒钱买房，少买点鞋子和衣服，提前还清助学贷款。这么多的攒钱机会都错过了，大家用钱换来了不少实实在在的物品，却没更多关注大家的将来。
4. Better planning
更好的规划生活
I regret not focusing more on where I wanted to go in life, what I wanted to do, who I wanted to be and what it would take to get there. With some more planning in our twenties, we’d be further ahead in our 40s and perhaps a bit happier as well.
我后悔我没仔细考虑我的生活道路，我想要做的事情，我想成为一个哪种人与怎么样才能达成。假如在20多岁的时候大家能更好的规划生活，大家在40多岁的时候就会更上一层楼，或许还会感觉到更幸福。
5. Seizing more experiences
更多的生活体验
I wish I had learned to ski and paint, speak Italian and do the Tango. I regret not living somewhere else before settling down. Others have said they regret not pursuing their hobbies or learning to sky dive or mountain climb. I prefer to stay on the ground, but I do regret not learning more, not trying new things that are hard to fit into the life of a forty something working wife and mother.
我多期望我以前掌握了滑雪、画画，会说意大利语，会跳探戈。我后悔在安定下来之前没在别的地方生活过。不少人也都和我一样后悔没持之以恒的培养我们的喜好，没学跳伞，没去爬山。我确实更喜欢务实，但也非常后悔没去学更多的东西，没尝试新事物，这类事物已经没办法再融入一个40岁的全职老婆加妈妈的日常了。
6. Living a more active lifestyle
更积极向上的生活方法
The bodies of youth are wasted on the young… I wish I had run a marathon before my knees ached, that I had biked more, hiked more, and took spinning classes when my legs were stronger. I regret not joining a softball team or volleyball league. We don’t often realize that we have squandered our physical abilities until things start aching and creaking.
年轻的时候，大家肆意的挥霍着大家的青春活力……我多想在我膝关节疼痛之前能跑场马拉松，多骑骑自行车、多走走看看，在腿脚强健的时候多骑骑动感单车。我后悔没参加垒球社团或排球网盟。一直等到体力透支病痛来袭，大家才意识到年轻时训练的可贵。
7. Making more friends
交更多的朋友
I regret not reaching out more, putting more effort into creating a tribe of support that would carry me through more difficult times. We socialize sure, but many of us don’t put enough importance on building deep and lasting friendships. Some do, many don’t and wish they had.
我后悔没更多的伸出手去，没更努力去结交那样一伙儿可以陪我度过更多艰难时光的朋友。大家确实也有交际，但大部分人并没把重心放在打造更深更持久的友情上面。一些人做到了，但还有非常人却没，他们期望当初曾为友情努力过。
8. Pursuing a more meaningful career
追求一份更有意义的职业
Many of us wish we had taken more career risks, opted for meaning over money, pursued the career path we wanted instead of what we were expected to do or simply following the path that was laid out before us. How much better to have explored our options and pursued meaningful work in our twenties than to have spent 20 years doing something we don’t love.
大多数人都是听从其他人的期待去工作或者根据其他人铺好的路去走，而不愿冒更多的职业风险和遵循大家的内心去工作赚钱。比起20多年一直从事自己不喜欢的工作，能在20多岁时自己选择并去追求一份更有意义的工作是多么的好啊！
Life is good; don’t misunderstand. Few of us walk around every day pining for our youth, at least I hope not, but we do occasionally look back with a wistful sigh and wish that we planned more, lived more, and stretched ourselves more when we had the freedom and energy to do so.
毋庸置疑，生活是美好的。极少有人天天四处走走缅怀大家的青春，但大家确实会偶尔若有所思的边叹气边回忆：多么期望当大家身心自由和精力旺盛的时候，能有更多的计划、更多的活法去扩展自己。
