And that it is often too late to do anything about it.

I went out for my daily walk around my office building today when this VERY pretty girl came walking in the other direction. I think she works at another one of the companies in my office complex. She looked right at me and had this big smile, said "hello", and I said it back. Then we just continued on our way.

16-24 BlueVU would have been WAY too nervous to say anything to her.
Current BlueVU would basically have asked her out right there... If he was single.

Womp womp. Oh well. My HCBW is hotter anyway.