Regrets: He Has A Few

Dreher misses his never-happened twenty-something sojourn in Europe. But he wanted a wife and kids and thought he'd be on the shelf if he waited too long.

The regret I have about never having lived in Europe is very, very mild -- but that's because I have what I most wanted in life (a family). If I had reached middle age without marrying, and was locked into a job I couldn't now afford to leave because I needed the health care, or for whatever middle-aged reason, the regret would be fairly...