Bitty Ruminations 98 – Is it possible to live a life without regrets?

I have read many books about Orson Welles, seen many interviews. I have rarely met anyone so willing to open up – but this is not about Welles or even about cinema.

This is about the condition we call “no regrets”. There are times I look back and do the whole “what if I had chosen this path instead of that one”, but this is very rare and I truly am not impacted by the past — so much so that I don’t think I “learn from my mistakes”. I keep repeating some patterns and subsequently realise that “been there, done this, why are you doing it again”!

But I do know many people who have deep, deep regrets. They nurse these regrets and keep revisiting those times. I wonder how they carry on, how they step into each present day with this big burden of the past. Maybe you carry regrets of your life does not work out as you wanted it?

I mean, almost nobody has a “perfect life” or has made the most perfect choices, but maybe some of us (in the present) really yearn for a time machine to fix something that would make things better?