Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien
Many of you will recognise the words in the title of this, my latest, post, as being a song by the late, great Edith Piaf, aka the Little Sparrow.
And for those of you who don’t, or who don’t speak French, then it means, simply, “No, I don’t regret anything.”
Hard as it may be sometimes, that has always been a motto close to my heart, and, like many people of my age, I’m not saying I haven’t made mistakes in my life – far from it, I made some pretty massive ones (including what turned out to be a disastrous first marriage, which I didn’t get out of for 24 years or so).
But the way I see it is this – you cannot change what has happened in the past.
What you can do, of course, is change how you feel about it, and you can also learn from it too.
You might think you wish you’d done something different, to avoid whatever it is that you now regret, but here’s the big question: how do you know that if you’d fixed that particular issue, maybe many years ago, something even worse might not have occurred as a result of your so-called fix?
This is, of course, a recurring theme in many movies and TV shows to do with time travel, and many do, indeed, warn of altering the “time line”.
One of my favourites, in this genre, is the movie The Butterfly Effect, starring Ashton Kutcher.
For those of you who haven’t seen this great example of a time-travel movie, the hero keeps going back to fix something from his childhood, but each time, something else happens that completely changes his current life, sometimes with dire consequences.
So, what’s done is done, and there’s precious little you can do about it, except, maybe, learn to live with it, make sure you don’t make the same mistake again, and try to use that experience to help you grow.
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