Okay... Why am I writing about regrets? Nobody should be writing about them.. we're not suppose to regret anything, philosophically speaking, however bad the mistake was, it made me a better person, right?
But honestly, can you really say that you don't regret anything in your life? If you were given the power to go back in time and change anything, would you? If you can see into the future and realize that you've become what you've always dreaded,what would you do?
A psych professor once told a class I joined that all negative emotions spring from a single source - FEAR. You fall in love, because you are afraid of being alone for the rest of your life. You hate someone because you fear them. You grieve for the dead, because you fear missing them and being lonely.
So if regret is an emotion, what am I afraid of? What do i fear? And all the philosopical and self-help bull aside, what should i do so i won't regret anything?
Everyday, the decisions we make keep piling up. Innocent ones, big, life-changing ones. Even down to the amount of tip for the aesthetician at Flawless last Monday. Haaay...I've made decisions that affected my life in ways i never dreamt possible.
If Anne of Green Gables had a bend in the road, now I have a fork. If these roads were ice cream flavors, I'd taste both and choose the better tasting one. But that would mean buying two flavors and tossing the other. Not really a good way to resolve the issue, isn't it? But really, how would one know which ice cream flavor is better? Okay, here's another solution, what about I do a market research on the ice cream flavors. The flavor that more people prefer would have a better chance then. But what about the brand? What if the other brand makes better flavor than the other brand? Then I would need to try out all
the brands... Or.. I can make my own ice cream....
Really.. i wish life was a little simpler...
