While living far away from Canada for a few years ago, I learned that regret is a foolish way to induce stress on your self. Regret is mourning mistakes that have past and spending energy to find someone or something to blame. Something must have brought you to that point, so regretting it will mean regretting your life prior to that moment. Rather, let it go and use those experiences to develop and strengthen yourself. Find the opportunity that is within the next moment.
No moment can ever be duplicated, replaced or retraced, nothing is static and everything is changing. Loss, sadness and pain are beautiful as they help us appreciate everything we have and the opposites that lay ahead.
Once while climbing mountains in Asia I met an older couple who where climbing together. I said to them that I thought it was uncommon for older people to be pursuing such activities at there age. I asked, "Is this the secret to a healthy relationship and marriage?" The husband, then looked at me with a smile that was as strong as marble. He then looked over at his wife with silent unannounced affection and said. [u]"For couples, sadness is half, but joy is double."[/u] He then went on to tell me that they have been Alpinists for years, that these are wonderful experiences that bring them closer to one another, mainly because they fight about the little things but have to pull it together in order to keep solid footing on the mountain. Then his wife looked at me with a smile that one gives to a grandchild and said, "If you think we are too old for this, than maybe you are the old one, don't grow up to fast enjoy these moments, they are the souvenirs we take when our eyes close for the last time."
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