Staying on the beach, reading about the importance of our ability to make choice, I can only say that everyone has to have the right to choose by itselfs what to do in life.
Our choice somehow tell other people about our inner self and who we are.
So I am happy to have the luck to make my choices till now. If I am sorry for some? Of course, but by making choice, which are not what we expect, we learn, we grow and we became stronger.
As my favorite sir Ken Robinson says: „If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.“