Regrets

You could have loved someone else. 
You could have lived somewhere else. 
You could have pursued a different career. 
You could have spoken up. 
You could have kept your mouth shut. 
You could have spent your time better. 
You could have taken that trip. 
You could have said yes. 
You could have said no. 

Do you have regrets? 
How many? 
Have you written them down? 
How long a list is it? 

Regrets are the doors you didn’t walk through, and they live outside the only life there is, the one you are living right now. 

Regret’s purpose is to deflate your resolve, to distract you from seeing your blessings and living gratefully in them right now. 

It’s a lazy temptation to wallow in regrets rather than wake up and confess them as sloth and then banish them to hell. 

Now look at your cards and play from your hand.[1]

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[1] “What might have been is an abstraction

Remaining a perpetual possibility

Only in a world of speculation.”

                                          T S Eliot, Burnt Norton, The Four Quartets