This came through to me today in one of the blogs I peruse while pretending to work at my day job, and in light of my recent family troubles, struck home.
From a UK Guardian article on Regrets of the Dying from earlier this year:
#1 regret:
“I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”
Now go out there and buy yourself a bow tie.