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Our What-ifs Are Whatever We Watch Over
How Our Regrets Empower Our Poetry
Quote to Conversation: Our Regrets Open Up Infinite Doors If We Know Where to Knock
If I’m sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow — José Saramago, Blindness
Life is full of regrets; we can’t escape them. Even if we want to live freely or openly or do whatever we wish, there will be an opportunity cost to everything left on the dish.
We can only ever chew so much at one time, so the best way to diminish everything left unfinished is by enjoying what you’ve chosen to its fullest.
Knowing human need, there’s nothing that will ever greet that greed.
Every success is only ever a means to something else. So our regrets are truly hardly about what we didn’t go through, but more about how we failed to grow from where we were to where we are.
We have to be able to appreciate everything that came before so that we can move on unless we want…
