being dumb

I never believed in having regrets.

Why would anyone regret a decision they'd made?
I used to think people made decisions to the best of their abilities given the context of each situation: So why regret something, now that you have a different perspective that you didn't before? Or knowledge you couldn't have foreseen or gained at the time? Or a value set divided from the one you once subscribed to?

And how unfair is it, to your past self, to regret something once the situational context is shifted? Once you are no longer experiencing the pressure to make a decision that you can't predict the outcome of? Once all emotion is removed from the equation and you're looking back on the situation as a casual observer?

How human of us, to think ourselves better, wiser than others, than indeed we ourselves were in the past. And yet, if you replayed the situation, could you guarantee a different outcome? If all those emotions came flooding back? And the same uncertainty?

No, regrets are dumb. I maintain that.
But for the first time in my life, I think I have one.