When I say that I have no regrets, it might sound arrogant. What I mean is that I have returned to the parts of my past that pained me and uncovered the aspects that I most wanted to avoid. I have grieved and I have taken responsibility. I have revised the story of my victimhood and my culpability. I have completed what was interrupted, what stuttered like a skipping record for decades. I have brought to it my questions, like some oracle, made myself a supplicant to the past, asked her what I could not when I was her, and told her what she could not tell herself. Through this process, I have
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There is hope in acceptance. We are not doomed to feel regret forever if we do not want to. Though it usually implies that there is sense of loss about a decision made (or not made), perhaps forgiveness can provide a path away from regret and the nasty consequences of it.
