What Do You Regret?
By Mark Manson Welcome to another Motherf*ckin’, we’re talking: 1) how to deal with regrets, 2) how “meaning” has become trendy, and 3) how many ideas can strangely be both wrong and right at the same time. 1. How to Get Over Your Regrets - For years, readers have been asking me to write about regrets--what they are, why we have them, how do we get over them, etc. And for years, I’ve avoided writing that article in fear that I would screw it up and never be able to get over it. (Okay, that was a lame joke… I regret writing it.) Seriously, though, most of my work is written because it’s something I’ve struggled with myself and by writing about it, I’m leading myself out of the maze of my own mind. But for whatever reason, throughout my life, I seem to have had immunity to regret. Of course, I’ve made mistakes, missed opportunities, hurt people unnecessarily, fucked many things up royally. I’ve made cringe-worthy decisions and stuck my f