The Regrets

Given the ability to time travel, what would you change? 

Your answers to this question are your regrets.

Living with regrets is a long-lasting fear of mine. When I browse the Internet looking for common regrets people share, I often find the same traits: not daring to tell others how you feel, not sticking to healthy habits, not daring to be yourself, not standing up for yourself, hurting yourself and others, and staying with the wrong people or not being present enough. 

Overcoming those regrets isn’t as easy as saying “NO RAGRETS”. Some can never be fixed, no matter what we do. Time is the only healer, we can only redeem and forgive ourselves.

Preventing future regrets is a matter of philosophy, values, and habits. It’s about sticking to them without forgetting to cultivate a healthy level of doubt to reassess them. Regrets arise when your needs, desires, words, and acts do not match.

The mistakes of our past do not have to define us. We can learn from them and avoid repeating them. Our regrets are no different: they made us who we are. Accepting ourselves the way we are now, with both our ups and downs, is vanquishing our regrets.