When you are laying in bed ready to fall asleep, thinking of your day and its events, do you regret anything? Or do you just tell yourself that what happend happend for a reason and just blow it off? For some, regret is an "all the time" kindof thing, for others regret comes every once in a while. It's almost like a pill that is really hard to swallow, no matter how much water you drink that sucker isn't going down.
Although its easier for some more than others, we all deal with regret at some point in our lives. It is human to regret! Wether it's something small like cheating on a diet or something big like taking a job across the country. We will always ask ourselves one question, "What would it have been like if I chose differently?" I think that choices are always difficult to make and will continue to be difficult until the day I die, so why regret any of it?
If you live your life with regret it will consume you and become a burden too heavy to carry. You are forced with decisions each day and don't always know which one will be better for you, the lack of information is always the suckiest part of having choices. For example: you are in the woods, taking a walk, and the road ahead forks off into two paths. Now, both look pretty much the same but one looks more worn than the other. Which do you take? The one that everyone else has taken(consistency is always comforting) or the one no one ever goes down? Both are equally inviting and come with the same consequences. If we take the "Road Not Taken" (the current poem I am reading in Eng class by Robert Frost) all we will be thinking about is the path we COULD have taken...again regret.
Why can't we just pick one and stick with it and not wonder or regret?!? At the end of the day the only thing to remember is that you can't change the past. What is done is done! Now the real question is if you COULD go back in time and change things would you really want to? The consequences would be the same...or would they? Is one choice really better than the other? If one path makes you happier than the other is that the right path to take or should you take the harder path that may or may not lead to happiness? Do right choices always make us happy and wrong choices always make us sad? I think that is tangent for another day...
Haiku for regret:
Choices are not always easy
Life is to short
Regret is pointless
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Damn, Child - when did you get so wise?
As long as we learn and grow as a result of our choices, right OR wrong, there is nothing to regret. It's only when we repeatedly make the same wrong choice and refuse to learn from our mistakes that our actions become regrettable.
So if I find myself regretting something I've done (or not done), I ask what it is I failed to learn from that action. Once I figure that out, I don't regret the thing any more. Well, usually.
Did you ever look closely at frost on a window? Imagine you started anywhere, and followed a line, chose at a fork, followed that and so on. You can see every choice, however small, makes a difference where we end up at the edge of the pane. All choices, though, lead to the edge of the pane. The real difference is how we traveled on our route.
Sliding Doors was one of my favorite movies. See it.
Interesting double meaning in the title for someone who just had her tonsils out!
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