Would you be proud or gutted?

Who can ever say what might have been? In your teens would you have had the patience and maturity to train the way you do right now or was running with your friends maybe important too? Would you have had the money for cles? You don't know. Why waste time on something you will never be able to change? Focus on your training. Apparently you are making good progress. Enjoy it and who says that you are too old to be a champion still? I have had teachers who told me I am too old for this and that and I have proven them wrong. Just keep going and what is supposed to happen will when the time is right regardless of age. Everything always turns out exactly the way it is supposed to and in everything that might seem bad to us at the time is something good. Learn to take charge of your life and take opportunities as they present themselves to you when they present themselves. Don't let anything or anybody ever hold you back. Thinking of what might have been and dwelling on it will definitely hold you back.