I have a few times, and I can honestly say I’ve never regretted it…despite the fact that it has, in every case, been unrequited.
Unfortunately, the corrollary to the above is that I have never actually heard those words from anyone…
From one of my favorite novelty recordings of all time, National Lampoon’s Deteriorata:
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I’m about to say this 10 days removed from a breakup with the girl I though could very well be ‘The One’. She didn’t exactly see it that way, she thought “we’re on two different paths right now and I don’t want you to have to wait for me”, but anyway, here goes.
As a general rule, I try to go through life with no regrets. Maybe that’s not quite the right way to say it. I look back on decisions I’ve made in the past, some for better, some for worse, and I just tell myself “You know what, jweb? You made the best decision you could at the time given the information you had available to you. Maybe it didn’t always work out the way you had hoped or intended, but them’s the breaks. So now you just have to learn what you can from it and move on.”
Regret, to me, implies a ‘woe is me’ attitude that I just don’t want to have as a part of my life. Do I think it may have been a mistake to think this girl might be The One? Perhaps. But, at the time, it seemed like the best course of action, and there’s no point in beating myself up over it.
Every single time I’ve ever said it, I’ve lived to regret it.
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I was the first to say it with my ex (the only serious relationship I’ve had) and while it ended horribly, I can’t say I regret the year we had together.