Why Regret?

I decided to come to Illinois for several reasons, but most of all I came to "finish" myself. By this I mean I felt there were things I felt I should learn both about the social world and my own person. There has been no regret for going to school, though the manner that I have progressed could be improved. Still, to play with Bookie's last posting, I don't know if the metaphor of the road is the issue, rather how we walk it. The challenge of the road's rise has done much for me, though I have not always appreciated such strain in the immediacy. What, dear Bookie, have you learned from your stride down this chosen path? For myself, the old, worn out boots of my former self were result enough.