Opportunities are everywhere, from the friends you meet to the jobs you take to even the people you fall in love with. And just like there are opportunities we take, we also face many missed opportunities that we may not even be aware of.
Missed opportunities are everywhere and it's something we all deal with whether we are consciously aware of it or not. Every single person you talk to and you interact with has the potential to be someone significant in your life so by not talking to them, you are having a missed opportunity even though you may not be aware of it. In a way, we have missed opportunities every single day of our life. Every person you talk to, every decision made, there is another option that could have drastically altered your life but we are not aware of these most of the time. Hence these are missed opportunities.
Let's just say you're in a class and you see a girl in your class you think is cute. Maybe it turns out she's single, that you two have a lot in common, and that she actually think you're cute. But you come up with an excuse to not talk to her, you let her walk away out of your life so you will never know what could have been. And let's just say in an alternate timeline, you do talk to her. You find out she's actually pretty cool, you two have a lot in common, you guys begin a relationship.
Or imagine if your friend told you to invest in bitcoin back in 2012 and you simply laughed in their face telling them it's a waste of money. Now 6 years later, Bitcoin is nearly 14k and you ask yourself what if I had just listened to my friend?
What holds many of us back from taking opportunities is fear, fear of the unknown, fear of failure. Rejection hurts, but regret hurts even more. Regret can hurt for many years because you'll be asking yourself what if? What if I had the courage to take a risk, to try something new, to ask out the girl that iv'e been crushing on for months? You'll be asking yourself these questions for a long time.