I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other people's experiences and plights and tragedies, that I am affected by it and learn from it.
I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?
Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.
I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.
To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.
I'd had to cope with a lot of death and illness in my family from a young age, and that maybe gave me a bleak outlook on the world.
I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.
Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don't regret much in my life.