Daily writing prompt

Write about a time when you didn’t take action but wish you had. What would you do differently?

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I’m going to be honest. At the time of this writing, I’m really not in the mood to think right now. I had a long day and I’m tired with a bit of a headache. For this reason, I cannot really think too hard about anytime I should have taken action but didn’t. I will say that there has been a lot of times throughout my life though. The good news is that there is one set of times in my life where I could have taken action but didn’t and this is all relating to the same thing. I’ve never been a fan of going to doctors or hospital or anything medical. For years, I had been in pain with a cyst on a part of my body, (I’d rather not disclose where on my body.) However, for years I had surgeries booked to remove it but I never went willingly despite my mother saying she would be there, I would end up cancelling due to the fear of possible death. To make a long story short, eventually the pain became too much and I needed to get it done and I suffered throughout the surgery and the night before, I got no sleep due to nerves. However, this could have been done much sooner than it was and it was just postponing the inevitable as it had to get done.