November 2005

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My One Regret

My motive for the previous post was that out of all of the choices that I’ve made, the same things are always apparent in my mind. I continue to focus on my regrets.

I’ll admit that I’m much more of a pessimist than an optimist. My rationale for the subtle negativity is to prevent myself in walking into a situation blindly. I want to be able to account for all possible outcomes that an event can present. The naive optimist can fall. However, there is one factor that I use to neglect, life’s uncertainty principle. I guess everything is uncertain until we go for it.

Most people’s regrets come from the struggles between our reality versus our dreams and what we choose to strive for.
Reality: what we don’t have and have.
Dreams: what we want, but can’t possibly achieve.

Many people would advise to live your life with no regrets, but I question if the majority of the population can live to that standard.

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
-Alexander Graham Bell

I regret that I can’t finish this thought completely for the time being. I’ll edit it later.

In our minds, we believe that we are gifted with a sense of reasoning. By logic, for every probable action, different outcomes will arise. Does our choices create a domino effect on others surrounding us? By chance, is it possible that given every choice, we would inherently already know what we would choose? If that’s true, then the next course of action is trying to understand why we would make that choice and not have taken the road less traveled by. Looking back into the past, we notice that everything is linear, whereas the future is expontentially dividing, until we make that choice.

If you could redo everything again, without the knowledge of your former self, would you inadvertly make the same choices and walk the same path? By making the same choices over and over, is it possible to really be making the choice, or is it an illusion? The very image of ourselves are the result of the sum of our choices in life’s equation, so make them important.

If you actually did read and understand this, then I dare you to reflect back and say if you’re satisfied with all of the choices you have made. Did you become the person you wanted to be?

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