So you know how you’ve made a million mistakes and you’re an awful person whose done tons of awful things? And how you knew what you were doing all along and were in complete control but still decided to do lots of awful things that you now regret?

Bullshit. Not bullshit in that you have done a lot of awful things, you probably have. You’re probably a relatively horrible person and many times you have done shitty things to people and yourself for no good reason or maybe even by accident. Bullshit because every moment you live you do something shitty, so if you’re going to regret some of your terribleness just go ahead and regret all of it.

Yes, that’s right. Every moment you live, you are being selfish because you are taking up resources other people or animals or mushrooms could use, or you are just sitting around useless, focusing on your own issues when you could be focusing on helping other people or animals or mushrooms. Every moment is a moment you could be doing something better, and you are wasting opportunities or better yet fucking them up. But oh wait, that’s called life.

Regret is pointless. If you have something that you regret then it means that you think you could have done something better. Still, those moments that happened in the past have all led to where you are now, and they do not exist except as memories that relate to the current moment. So if you regret the past, then that means you regret something that does or does not exist in the present. That you see a moment in the past that could have changed everything and made the present different or better.

In that case, fuck regretting shit because the present isn’t over yet. If you have a moment that you wish went differently, then think about why you want something to be different in the present day and think about how to make it happen. Or if you have something that you think you did not handle well or that could have gone better or that you seriously fucked up, don’t just fucking regret it, go take responsibility for it. Tell whoever you fucked over that you regret it, and are going to do your best to make amends going forward. Or at least tell that to yourself.

So if you are going to regret shit, be unbiased and regret everything. Then deal with those regrets and try to put them to fucking rest. Realize that some shit is in your control, and some shit is out of your control, and that you can only do your best to take responsibility for the shit that you have done. Regret does not change the past and it does not change the present. Then again, if you can use your regret as a stepping stone for examining the current moment, then fuck, you’ll become one of those wise assholes in martial arts movies.