A09 · Guilt and Regret
Regret over past decisions
Wishing the past had gone differently or mourning counterfactual lives.
Cues
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“It is true that life must be understood backwards. But we forget the other truth: it must be lived forwards. The more I think about this, the clearer it becomes that life can never be fully understood while we are living it.”
“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who makes things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.”