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.