Living life with no regrets

There are differences between mistakes and regret.

People make mistakes. You can't really REGRET a mistake if you LEARNED from it. Regret is a foul little emotion. One should accept the mistakes one has made and MOVE ON. There is no point in pointing out what you did wrong and angsting about it. So you fucked up a few times. Who cares.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by AliceNWondrland

Your logic only applies to mistakes, though. Conscious decision that we make that we know at the time are wrong, yet we do them anyway (and who hasn't done this?) are a whole different story.

Ah, humanity. We aren't all flawless. We're all prone to knowingly make bad decisions out of personal desire or gain. This is the major flaw of humanity. We're all going to do it. We're all subject to it. Even the best person can never do anything completely altruistic.

Regret is a nasty emotion. It's best NOT to regret, in my opinion, but to replace "regret" with "have learned from."

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You have to be able to recognize purposeful malice/evil/laziness/etc. with yourself, and if you don't regret it later, then your conscience needs a little work.

Sometimes, people act out in maliciousness, evil, or laziness (insert response as necessary) because they feel it's warranted. No one said it makes a whole lot of sense, but sometimes, emotions can override rationality.

It gets the best of all of us sometimes.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Deusanimus

Anyone who lives a life with no regrets most likely hasn't ever tried to do much with thier life. One of the ways you gain regrets is through failure, and failure can only honestly come from trying to be more than God (or whatever creative force you believe in) intended you to be. If you live a life "with no regrets" it means you never tried to grow at all,and never found your boundries.

Okay. Apparently, you like to live your life living in regret? I don't know. Regret is something that only enables self-pity. Either you LEARN from something or you don't. If you DONT learn from an experience, then yea, you should regret. In my opinion, its not the WISEST thing to do (in fact, if you don't learn from a life fuck-up, you're a fucking moron who can't use his brain)

I think a lot of people misunderstand the definition of "regret." Regret means that you wish you had not done something.

Sure, at Thanksgiving, you may regret having eaten ALL THAT FUCKING STUFFING O GOD, but really, thats a silly thing to regret.

"Never tried to grow at all and never found your boundaries." Yea, no. Thats not what regret is about. Thats what LEARNING is about. REGRET helps NO ONE.

I like how you threw the God crap in there, though. Awesome job. (Religion has nothing to do with regret.)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.