How To Let Go Of Your Deepest Regrets

''Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow cycles of nature, is a help. —May Sarton

We all struggle with regret and making amends. It can be hard to climb out of the canyon of lament at how our lives have unfolded, and to discern what can and can't be done as we move forward. The word regret comes from the Old French word regreter, "one who bewails the dead," and this goes further back to the German root meaning, "to greet." We always face these two phases of regret: to bewail what is dead and gone, and, if we can move through that grief, to greet the chance to do things differently as we move on...''

by Mark Nepo