Regret

As we are almost sure to meet regretful events, there are things we need to do to cope.

While the level of regret sometimes depends on the magnitude of the effects of the wrong decisions we make, it is still necessary to find way through and move on.

For decisions we can reverse, we can simply reverse them but many other regrets are about things we cannot reverse. What do we do? Learn from such and move on. Continuously regretting on things we cannot reverse changes nothing to the situation, it simply makes life hard.

Learning from our experiences, whether good or bad, is vital for shaping our life patterns. We are likely to replicate good experiences and avoid bad ones.

In the context of regret, learning helps us not repeat the same mistakes. We do not want to regret over the same things, because then this would be insanity if we repeat the same mistakes over and over.

The greatest achievement about wrong decisions is the ability to find closure and moving on. If we continually stand on the same point of regret, we shall worsen our experience and make our standard of living very poor. This is certainly not good for us.

This is a question. Have you ever heard that you should "never regret"? Well, in my life experience, I firstly do not think it is entirely possible to "never" regret. I think it is however possible to check how much regret we do on a particular thing because continual regret could block the ability to learn from a bad experience and moving on.

So maybe it's not about never regretting, but the ability to quickly move out of a situation of regret to getting ourselves together for a new life, new learning.