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Dealing with What Might Have Been

By Philip Chard — 2021

Regret usually comes in one of two basic forms. For one, it may emerge as a sense of remorse, sadness and, often, guilt over things that happened but shouldn’t have. Deeply offending or betraying a friend would be an example. But in the other version, the focus is on what didn’t happen but should have.

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