What I really want to say is, don’t worry about regretting not doing something, as justification for doing it.
Well said ToneTheWone
I've often heard the integrated schools such as OAA use this emotive play on insecurity as a means of closing the deal with those poor chumps who go to their sales seminars. "Its no good looking back on your life and saying I'd wish I'd done it...."
Its not enought to get into aviation just to want to say that you've done it or because you want to enjoy the thrill of the ride. And unfortuantely its not easy for some of the guys parting with money to decipher between true intent and the ideal built up by some of the very canny schools....