Live life with no regrets!

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First post of Prateek’s blog… can’t be anything but something about a hot girl. And Hayden Panettiere, the sexy cheerleader from Heroes is the lucky one! Okay, now I love this girl to death, her appeal is what made Heroes so fun to watch at the start, despite her grotesque heroic ability.

However, I just love the irony of what happened to her recently.  Here’s a link of the tattoo fiasco I’m talking about: http://celebslam.celebuzz.com/2009/07/hayden-doesnt-care.php

Here she has a traditional Latin phrase imprinted on her back for her entire life.. and what is it supposed to say, “live life with no regrets.” The best part about it is that she doesn’t even care that the tattoo was misspelled, I guess she really is living up to the moral in which she claims to believe in.

I, on the other hand, view the world in a different light. You’ve got to live life with regrets! People do stupid stuff, people make mistakes, people screw up. To take another Latin phrase, “errare humanum est“.  Basically, I think life is a pathway to self-discovery, self-improvement. What’s the point in studying history or watching those sport tapes or checking over tests unless you want to rectify the mistakes you did in the past.

Now, you may be smart and say to me… well Prateek, that’s the point! By making mistakes, we can learn from them, and become a better person. And this makes sense. But really, if you call a girl a slut that you actually kind of liked in an effort to make yourself appear cool, and she becomes irreprehensibly angry at you… you’ll regret it! If you’re trying to call a cute girl in another room in a hotel, and end up calling a 45 year-old woman, disturbing her in her sleep, and she proceeds to call you a ‘filthy player’… you’ll regret it! And if you accidentally kick a baby… you’ll regret it. Okay, only the first two actually happened to me. Why is it always something to do with girls?

Anyhow, if you refuse to acknowledge the past as mistakes, as things that you regret, then you ultimately stand for and represent these actions, no matter how nasty or terrible they may be.  I’m sure those rehabilitated convicts regret their previous transgressions, and in fact the entire rehabilitation process is based on the foundation that they must acknowledge their mistakes and regret the person they once were.  Go to any AA meeting, and it’s the same story.

So in all, like all things in life, a celebrity’s little mishap speaks about her on a larger scale. That’s why we’ve got to love celebrities!  What I’ve learned, sometimes the hottest girls have the worst values and are the most hypocritical. Well, I guess it doesn’t take much to learn that.

Peace and love!

Tags: celebrity, hayden panettiere, hypocrisy, life, regrets, tattoo