> I'd gladly trade 5 of the worst years of my life to improve the rest of them. There's no guarantee you're trading the 5 worst years of your life; it's far mo

> I'd gladly trade 5 of the worst years of my life to improve the rest of them. There's no guarantee you're trading the 5 worst years of your life; it's far more likely that you'll also trade some perfectly good ones for bad ones. And as far as the naivety of youth is concerned; the simple answer is yes. The complex one is that you'll end up understanding the trade-offs you made in a way that you couldn't now and that the decision on whether it was right or not well be just as moot as it is hard to make.