Regrets, Regret Not
Today I read an interesting article in the New York Times entitled "What's Your Biggest Regret?" it's interesting that one should study about it, but I suppose to learn and understand human behaviour, we have to take surveys and see what others feel. Interestingly, the most common regreat among American adults involves a lost romantic opportunity. This was from a sample of 370 adults. Second was family issues. It makes me think about "regret." Some consider it feeling a deep "remorse" or a sadness for a loss or absence of something. Some define it as the "opportunity lost" or a "sadness one feels after an action one wishes one had not done." Whatever definition you give it, it is basically a feeling one feels when one wishes one had taken an action rather than the one had. Then I thought about what my deepest "regret" was. This was not easy as I tell myself not to "regret" any decision I make becaus...