Regrets

I do not allow myself to feel regrets. There is very little in my life which I hold with regret. I think regrets are a kind of self-serving, shielding from acceptance of the reality of what has transpired and which I might have been responsible for. I try not to have anything I regret or might yet regret.

Refusing to regret is part of my way of accepting, embracing what is and what has been. I choose not to live in a world of wishing how things might have been or even what might be. I want only the present to be real for me.

I may learn from the past, even make resolve after reviewing the past. But there is nothing I can do or want to do to change it. I cannot regret it away, so why bother? I have no agency over the past. I only have agency in the present. I have no agency beyond the present. I have no agency about the past or the future.

I want to live today in such a way that I will not be tempted to have regrets. I want to embrace each moment with the conviction that this is what I choose, this is what I want to be, this is now a permanent part of me. I choose to have no regrets.