{"id":316,"date":"2011-09-22T08:41:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/?p=316"},"modified":"2011-09-22T08:41:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:41:33","slug":"regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Regret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, a lot of people have been asking me, &#8220;If I could take anything in life back, what would if be? and why?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Typically, when asked this, I used to just give some BS answer about one of the biggest mistakes I&#8217;ve ever made. But this time I actually thought about it, and this is my new response:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t take anything back &#8211; nothing. What ever mistakes I&#8217;ve made, people I&#8217;ve hurt, tragedies I&#8217;ve witnessed, and whatever else negative happened&#8230; has ultimately made me me. After some strong consideration, I&#8217;ve concluded that it sucks being me, but I like who I am in total, and I&#8217;d rather not be anyone else. \u00a0So in order to successfully answer the question (being, there HAS to be SOMETHING to take back), I&#8217;d have to regret something positive; which is completely screwed up to do. Erase good memories? Who&#8217;d do that &#8211; I wont.<\/p>\n<p>The final option: Take back something neutral or insignificant. I could regret running outside with no shoes on once, but that&#8217;s not, &#8220;good enough,&#8221; for people. I could regret not going to eat with my family, and missing some conversation or something. That&#8217;s also not very cool though. Hell, I could even regret not faking sick more often; but school was probably more important.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My point is: Regret is, to me, becoming more and more pointless. I understand pain, both emotionally and physically, and I&#8217;ve experienced both extensively. When it comes down to it though, that pain, that anger, that fear; all those\u00a0experiences\u00a0are what has molded ME. My imperfect past has only influenced me in a positive manner, and it&#8217;d be foolish of me to regret being a better person, right? Therefore, I&#8217;ll take nothing back, and continue my existence being more capable than I&#8217;d ever be if I had taken any other option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, a lot of people have been asking me, &#8220;If I could take anything in life back, what would if be? and why?&#8221; Typically, when asked this, I used to just give some BS answer about one of the biggest mistakes I&#8217;ve ever made. But this time I actually thought about it, and this is [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggersden.org\/blogs\/nick\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}