Do you live with regret, or take everything as an experience?

[Number]

I think Yeats said it best.

Things said or done long years ago,
Or things I did not do or say
But thought that I might say or do,
Weigh me down, and not a day
But something is recalled,
My conscience or my vanity appalled.

[Hodge]

I think Gibby Haynes said it best:

Kid: Daddy, what does regret mean?

Daddy: Well, son, it’s better to regret something that you have done, than to regret something that you haven’t done. And by the way, If you see your mother this weekend, remember to tell her… SATAN! SATAN! SATAN!

[sub]from Sweat Loaf, The Butthole Surfers’ brilliant cover of Black Sabbath’s Sweet Leaf[/sub]

[DeVena]

I see life as a series of splits on a path - each split leads to a different path. I would not be on the path I am today if I didn’t make the choices I did along the way. So, even if it hurt at the time, in the end it was the best thing. No regrets. Sometimes wonder but don’t regret anything I’ve done, because those decisions, good and bad, brought me here.

Hubby is filled with remorse and regrets. Really big on the “I shoulda” and “If I’d only”. He sees the pessimistic and I see the optimistic.