First post.

[senseofrelief]

A question that I've been pondering lately:
Is it possible to live without regrets?

I think that it is. While it would be extremely difficult, I believe that there is one way to live without regrets. You'd have to fully believe in destiny. If you feel that destiny is real, then you would feel that no matter what you do or what happens to you was

Comments

[gaydventure]

Regret is defined often as a sense of sorrow, loss, dissappointment, and a wish that something could be different.

In my belief, we, as humans, have complete control over the thoughts in our brains. After all, in my opinion, it is we that prooduce them.

I think we all have choices ... left or right, up or down, live or regret. Your choice. Just choose something different.

As for destiny, I don't personally believe in it. I believe in a complete control that a human has over their own life and their own functioning.

To me, destiny is a way of denying responsibility for the functioning of your own life.

To not sound completely cold, I do relate to forces outside yourself, but even within that, there are choices to whether or not you let those forces affect you.

[watevertogether]

No. I feel like there is always at least two paths that life can run along, sometimes more. The spirit, after making a decision, is always left to second guess themselves and wonder what life would have been like if they had taken a different path...this kind of regret does not come from a mistake, but it comes from the human desire to have all the best things in life. When we feel like we might not have the best things on the path we have taken, we wonder what might have been and regret not traveling the other road that was set before us.

Clarification

[gaydventure]

Do you feel like the spirit and brain are two different things, or one combined entity?

If you believe they are separate, what is in the domain of each?

What is spirit to you?

my $0.02

[drunkenwanderer]

hmm... we should probably define regret at some point, but i'm just gonna roll with this as it occurs to me at the moment

Re: my $0.02

[gaydventure]

I have been on my deathbed a couple of times, and I'll tell you ... at these moments, I never regretted a thing in my life. There is a sense of looking back on your life with ownership. That it was yours and yours alone, and nobody else could have lived your life quite the way you did. You really begin to see your personality in your choices.

[ahnueckh]

It is possible to live with out regret. I tie regret in with guilt so all one has to due is elliminate guilt to kill off regret.

Personally I have spent a couple of years wiping guilt and regret from my life, and I agree with you it is possible. I don't think it's dificult, initially yes but like anything else it becomes easier with time.

I don't regret and I don't believe in destiny.

I have just stopped questioning myself. There is no use, feeling bad about things that you can't change. It's a wasted emotion. If you don't stop look back, take each new situation and deal with it regret becomes silly, feeling guilty or dissapointed doesn't undo what happened.

In my opinion:

[gaydventure]

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