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Esther O’Moore Donohoe: We must acknowledge and learn from our regrets, but then tell them to get in the sea
At a certain point, you have to show your inner regrets who the boss is and cut them off at the pass. But it’s not always that easy
Regrets, I've had a few – but as Oscar Wilde wrote in A Picture of Dorian Grey: “The only thing one never regrets is one’s mistakes.” Did I just google ‘Oscar-Wilde-Regret-Quote’ to find that line? Indeed I did. Do I regret it? Indeed I don’t. But no one gets through life regret-free.
Regretting past choices and feeling sad or disappointed over them is something we all have in common. In 2020, the American Regret Project ...
