I take the first part in a wider sense, not only referring to past lovers. She talks about those regrets in a very non-dramatical, non-tragic way. Just as winter colds, everybody has some, and just like telephone poles there are thousands of them in line, all the same and all unimportant (who pays attention to a single telephone pole or streetlight?). The way I see it, at first things may look terrible and you may think of yourself as the most unlucky or miserable person on earth, but with time and maturity you end up realizing your problems were mostly silly things that just had to happen, and you can only "laugh at them" to get over it.
I take the first part in a wider sense, not only referring to past lovers. She talks about those regrets in a very non-dramatical, non-tragic way. Just as winter colds, everybody has some, and just like telephone poles there are thousands of them in line, all the same and all unimportant (who pays attention to a single telephone pole or streetlight?). The way I see it, at first things may look terrible and you may think of yourself as the most unlucky or miserable person on earth, but with time and maturity you end up realizing your problems were mostly silly things that just had to happen, and you can only "laugh at them" to get over it.