Posts Tagged ‘regrets’

“The Greek word for ‘return’ is nostos. Algos means ‘suffering.’ So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.” – Milan Kundera

If nostalgia is the suffering caused by the yearning for your past to return, then regret is the suffering caused by the yearning for your past to go away.

So what word best describes a benign acknowledgement of your past? A word that is neither a negative association causing you to cast it away, nor a positive association causing you to romanticize a distant moment. Essentially a benign acceptance.

“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.” – Fulton Oursler