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The ghost of a choice that haunts the road you never walked.
means A feeling of sorrow or disappointment over something you did or failed to do, wishing it had gone otherwise.
from From Old French 'regreter,' to bewail or lament the dead — to cry out in mourning. The second part may be linked to Old Norse 'grata,' to weep or groan (a cousin of English 'greet' in its old Scottish sense of weeping). So at its root, regret is literally a sound of grief: the wail you give over what is lost or beyond recall.
- inaction wins
- People regret things undone more than things done
- brain spot
- Activates the orbitofrontal cortex, behind your eyes
- deathbed list
- Dying patients cite courage unspent, not risks taken
- counterfactual fuel
- Requires imagining a better world that never existed
- useful sting
- Sharpens future decisions when it doesn't drown you
hiroshima and nagasaki — japan's official national day of mourning for wwii atomic bombings, august 6 and 9, 1945
trail of tears — 1838-1839 forced relocation of cherokee, creek, and other native americans resulting in thousands of deaths
apology act 1988 — us government formally apologized and paid reparations to 120,000 japanese americans interned during wwii