Maryannaville™

Regret is something everyone has yet regret is nothing anyone can afford to keep. While being remorseful is commendable when there is a genuine need to be sorry for wrong or ill behavior, living with regret is to add to it. There will always be those who are unable to admit they have been wrong or that they exercised ill behavior. And, there will always be those who carry it with them insomuch that they become bowed in body and in spirit.

Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, once quipped, “Remorse is beholding heaven and feeling hell,” but perhaps just knowing heaven can exist makes regret more hellish. Often it will render the remorsefully disempowered to lift themselves out of the predicament. Then again, there is the power of forgiveness. A daily vow or affirmation can motivate one to take a step further toward rising above the things that have caused regret. If unhappiness has become one’s lot in life remember that, like gas, it too shall pass.

Related:
Love and Fear a YouTube video.
The Direction of Happiness
Grandiosity and Intimacy

Originally posted 2008-04-24 04:06:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter