Living with / Coping with Regrets
Living with regret is complicated and can affect your mental health. Finding ways to cope with it can help you move forward. The good and bad parts in live, the success and the failures and mistakes are part of our growth. Sure a certain amount of regret is inevitable over a lifetime. Mistakes, missteps, and bad decisions are part of the human condition. We’re all vulnerable to wondering what might have happened if we’d done one thing and not the other, or if we’d only acted when we didn’t. But how we process regret varies from one person to the next. My learning is that regret can motivate us into action like: “I won’t let an opportunity like that slip away again!” or “If only I’d left the first time he/she lied to me” or “If only I hadn’t quit before the company went public”. There are those among us who, echoing Edith Piaf, insist that “Non, je ne regrette rien” in english: “No, I regret nothing" a song, as I already mentioned one year ago , my wife loved - and my wife and I am...