![]() Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on. We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.īut it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. ![]() It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga. ![]() Easy to wish we'd developed other other talents, said yes to different offers. ![]() “It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. ![]()
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