Scientists have achieved a lot of things that seemed impossible for ages like finding the medication for diseases, finding out many things about the universe, inventing all sorts of horrible and amazing things like the atomic bomb or the telephone. But there is one question I’m sure no one will ever find the answer to: What could have happened if …?
This is such a curious thing, a lot of books and movies deal with the question, mostly in the framework of time-travelling. What if I had chosen not to marry? What if I had chosen to have a child? What if I had made the other decision? These are questions in our life we will never ever know the answer to. We would like to, very much even. We like to think that our life is bad because we made the wrong decision in the past and if we had chosen the other option, we would be happier.
This is regret. Regretting how we formed our life and the decisions we made but if we think back those decisions seemed right at that moment. Maybe there is no other option, no alternative reality where we live the life we wanted to. We made our decisions because we did not think only of ourself, we considered others’ happiness as well.
It is fun toying with the idea what could have happened but we have to accept that this image of ourself in an alternative life is only an image. So before you start to regret the life you never had, make sure you realise that with your decision you changed your life for the better, otherwise you will always live in an imaginary world where regret, bitterness and sadness will be your only companions.
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