What Is Regret?
The Stoics would define regret as when past events consume our present lives. When we dwell over things we have no control over. When we resist our fate. Marcus Aurelius argued that we must be “satisfied with what [we] have, and accept the present–all of it.” Regret is the contrary–when we’re unsatisfied with what we have and reject what we’ve been given.
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