Things Everyone Goes Through

Ache At Night

Ache In The Rain

Age Like Wine

Almost Remember

Almost Touch

Arrive Late

Arrive With The Wrong Gift

Auto-Renew

Become Heavier Over Time

Burn Going Down

Burn Like Ash

Burn Like Chlorine

Burn Like Copper

Burn Like Dust

Burn Like Echo

Burn Like Glass

Burn Like Glue

Burn Like Iron

Burn Like Lint

Burn Like Metal

Burn Like Midnight

Burn Like Mildew

Burn Like Milk

Burn Like Morning

Burn Like Paper

Burn Like Rain

Burn Like Rope

Burn Like Rust

Burn Like Salt

Burn Like Smoke

Burn Like Static

Burn Like Stone

Burn Like Sugar

Burn Like Summer

Burn Like Vinegar

Burn Like Water

Burn Like Wine

Burn Like Winter

Burn Like Wire

Burn Like Wood

Burn Without Flame

Call You Back Too Late

Carry Consequence

Catch Up With You

Chase You

Close A Door

Close Too Slowly

Collect Around Failure

Come Back To Bite You

Cost More Than Planned

Dissolve On Contact

Echo In An Empty House

Echo Long After

End A Friendship

Exist Mostly In The Mind

Fail Quietly

Feel Like A Monday

Feel Like Bad Decisions

Feel Like The Weekend

Feel Understood Too Late

Feel Unfinished

Fold Back On Themselves

Follow An Ambulance

Follow You

Gather Around Failure

Get Buried

Get Lost

Get Lost In The Shuffle

Give You Indigestion

Glance Away First

Go Out Too Late

Go Wrong In People

Hang Heavy

Haunt You

Heal Wrong

Hit Different At Night

Hum With Almost-Memory

Itch Under The Cast

Keep Piling Up

Keep You Awake

Keep You Up At Night

Knock Twice

Late On Purpose

Leave A Bad Taste

Leave A Taste

Look Back After You Pass

Look Back At You

Misread You In Passing

Nod Before They Finish

Open Old Wounds

Ping You

Play On Repeat

Publish Too Late

Remember By Mistake

Remember You Wrong

Ring Like Morning

Ring Like Rust

Ring Like Sugar

Ring Twice

regret

drinking

sleeping

sleeping in

marriage

one-liner

carpe diem

momento mori

seize the day

body

drunkenness

hangover

intoxication

self

waking up

partying

misanthropy

overreacting

venting

oversharing

restraint

shutting up

shower

self-hatred

is a denial of the soul, for to regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development, to deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life.

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. Oscar Wilde

is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.

regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its brief annunciation.

is a sign that the action is one that goes 'against the grain of the agent.'.

Meyer (1989 and 2006 143-4) argues that regret is a sign that the action is one that goes 'against the grain of the agent.

is an experience of felt-reason or reasoned emotion. one thing all regretted decisions have in common is that the person had an element of control.

So what is regret, exactly' Psychologist Janet Landman describes it as an experience of felt-reason or reasoned emotion, which occurs in response to feeling sorry for our misfortunes, limitations, losses, shortcomings or mistakes. As many psychologist have pointed out, a regretted action may be one of commission (where you did something) or omission (where you chose not to do something). It may not even be an action you regret... it's entirely possible to regret having thought something about a particular person, along with other members of a group, perhaps. However, one thing all regretted decisions have in common is that you had an element of control... if you were unable to make the decision yourself, the feeling might be disappointment, but it

is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. It lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.

an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.

is but the past crippling one in the present.

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

is cognitively laden to an unusual degree... it requires us to think in a practical way about a decision that we made while also being.

The philosopher Sir Stuart Hampshire suggested that this is because regret is cognitively laden to an unusual degree... it requires us to think in a practical way about a decision that we made, rather than simply inspect our feelings. On the other hand it's not only cognitive - it comes with a huge amount of uncomfortable feeling, so it is definitely an emotion, but with a large cognitive input. This is an unusual state of affairs.

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