Is regret meaningful?

I'm the type that beleives regret is good & bad. It's bad if the regret isn't really your own, but that you've been convinced whatever you did was regretful. That kind of regret is counter productive & does nothing as you really never learn anything. Being convinced could be anything from people telling you, to you seeing things with tainted vision. Distorted memories, l;eading to depression, doing something harmful again for whatever reason, etc etc.

Though the second type is more helpful. It's the kind you arrive on by yourself. The kind that lets you really reflect & grow. The type that allows you to keep the regret without all the bad crap attached. The kind that lets you mature & to an extent help another that may be doing whatever it was that you regreted.

Having no regrets, however, is pretty selfish & irresponsible in my opinion. That's kinda like thinking everything you did, no matter who you hurt, what you messed up or what you destroyed was good, because, well, you learned if nothing else.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

That's what I meant. I was just lumping the apologetic feeling in with regret. I totally let go of the really really getting down on yourself pretty quick actually, but I still feel bad & sorry, but not in a depressive overwhelming way. More of saying whatever I've regreted, I'm still not proud of, nor will I ever be.

There's nowhere I can't reach.