metanoia's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No Regrets My personal philosophy is one that advocates clean cut, don't look back, learn your lesson and carry on. There are times, significant times, that I do not follow this philosophy. I developed it when I was younger, with an eye toward living a life without regrets. It sounded good on paper. I now know a life lived, truly lived, will never be without regrets; but that doesn't mean we should dwell on our regrets or wallow in them or use them to our detriment. Our regrets can be embraced, with a bittersweet hug goodbye before we move on with lessons learned. They can even come along with us, but only if they promise to be quiet and not slow us down on our journey. Rationally, we make choices that involve the probability of least regret. We look at a situation and weigh the risk vs. reward... sometimes, irrationally, the heart chimes in and has her say. Usually we ignore the heart, her choices are sometimes questionable with no obvious reward. Other times, we are compelled to throw in with our hearts and follow. Its always a joyous ride, and sometimes exceptional. Sometimes when we make this obvious "bad choice" to follow our heart it carries regrets - regrets that must be dealt with and owned. But, on rare occasions, we travel with our hearts in the lead, come to the anticipated bad, dead end to find there are no regrets. The ride was as good as it could get, and even though it didn't end the way we wanted it to, regret just does not come into play. There just are no regrets. Not one. 11:33 a.m. - 2006-06-28 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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