A year ago, I sent an email trying to reconcile with an old friend...you know, it was the international day of peace and my activist vein told me that I had to be in peace with everything.....so I sent the mail and we did reconcile and sent 2 other emails asking how was everything in our lives....and then....we (or I) screwed up again, and we are not longer related and this time for good....
Today, when I look back, I have no regrets about that specific situation, I did what I thought was right...and now I understand that some things are unfixable, no matter which international day is and how you want to "celebrate it", you just have to keep walking and learn from your mistakes....
I used to say that I have no regrets in life....but now I know that I have...it's completely normal to have them...
Regret is the emotion we experience when we think that our present situation could be better or happier if we had done something different in the past. It requires IMAGINATION to be able to imagine going back in time and making different choices, and then being able to kind of spool this imaginary record forwarding imagine how things would be playing out in our present. Have you realized that in all this imaginary scenarios everything is very optimistic? We can't be sure of it, but we love to think that way..
Regret doesn't reminds us that we did badly, regret reminds us that we know we can do it better.