The Trouble with Harry

That's is a 1955 movie I watched recently. The tag line of the movie says "The trouble with Harry is that he's dead". It's from Hitchcock, but probably the only one of its kind. Hitchcock is famous for being a great exponent of the suspense/thriller genre but in this movie he tries to tickle the funny bone (He doesn't do particularly well, which is evident by the fact that probably you would have never heard of this movie before).

But this post is not about Hitchcock or the movie. There's Wikipedia for that.
In the movie the character of the wife of Harry, (who ends up killing Harry later because he comes looking for her to the quiet little town) tells another character (an eccentric artist), "On the day of our marriage, I read my horoscope which said, 'You should not start a new project today, for if you do, you'll never be able to finish it'. So I just left and came here."

Of course Hitchcock was famous for his telling commentary on the human subconscious and this dialogue though absurd, carries more meaning to it than seems obvious.

We keep finding excuses for what we are just simply afraid of doing.
Had the wife of Harry just stayed and decided to complete what she started; had she taken the chance which she was on the verge of anyway taking, the trouble with Harry wouldn't have started in the first place.

We keep on putting off things just to avoid having to face the "consequences".
Well if you look at it, you anyway end up facing the consequence of not doing it, which more often then not, you regret later.

So why not regret having done it, than having to regret not having done it at all.
And there's always the sweet chance that you end up committing the "best" mistake of all.