{"id":2135,"date":"2024-07-19T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2024-07-12T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T14:20:09","slug":"the-meaning-of-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2024\/07\/19\/the-meaning-of-regret\/","title":{"rendered":"The meaning of Regret."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter\u2019s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077<\/em><\/p>\n

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Regret is anti- onomatopoeic
\nIt doesn\u2019t babble like a brook,
\nOr sigh, like the breeze
\nBut I understand how regret feels
\nNights spent longing
\nLaughing at private mistakes
\nConversations never held
\nPlayed out in the imagination in
\nA million different ways
\nA hole in the chest- that rises to fill
\nMy mind with invisible fingers
\nThat scratch upon my skull with frustrated
\nMovements questing for what has never
\nBeen.<\/p>\n

\u2018I regret nothing\u2019,
\n\u2018Live for today\u2019
\nSo many words wasted in denial
\nOf human experience
\nOn the dreams of sociopathy- life absent regret
\nBy definition.
\nIf only we\u2019d learn regret is
\nThe harsh master of experience
\nWithout regret, there is no lesson
\nNo reason not to repeat mistakes.
\nHollow choices lie behind me
\nHard and heavy weights upon my soul<\/p>\n

I regret nothing
\nFor regret is just a side effect
\nAnd I chose the pill that made me
\nFeel so good
\nUntil it didn\u2019t.
\nRegret has taught me much,
\nI wish I could forget those lessons
\nYet who would I be without
\nmy regret?<\/p>\n

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\nThe ink is dry<\/a>
\nDon’t stare at the light<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Dr Joseph Hawkins, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Clinical lead for End of Life Care, Ashford and St Peter\u2019s NHS Foundation Trust. Twitter: @JoeHawk75825077 Regret is anti- onomatopoeic It doesn\u2019t babble like a brook, Or sigh, like the breeze But I understand how regret feels Nights spent longing Laughing at private mistakes Conversations never held […]<\/p>\n

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