Regret

re·gretter n.

    Synonyms: regret, sorrow, grief, anguish, woe, heartache, heartbreak
    These nouns denote mental distress. Regret has the broadest range, from mere disappointment to a painful sense of dissatisfaction or self-reproach, as over something lost or done: She looked back with regret on the pain she had caused her family. Sorrow connotes sadness caused by misfortune, affliction, or loss; it can also imply contrition: sorrow for his... children, who needed his protection, and whom he could not protect (James Baldwin). Grief is deep, acute personal sorrow, as that arising from irreplaceable loss: Grief fills the room up of my absent child,/Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me (Shakespeare). Anguish implies agonizing, excruciating mental pain: I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement (Abraham Lincoln). Woe is intense, often prolonged wretchedness or misery: the deep, unutterable woe/Which none save exiles feel ( W.E. Aytoun). Heartache most often applies to sustained private sorrow: The child's difficulties are a source of heartache to the parents. Heartbreak is overwhelming grief: Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak (Shakespeare).
   
   
Do I really regret anything?? why do I grieve ?? of what consequence is sorrow? what does anguish leave me with? why the heartbreak, why the heartache??

Wish i could take these words out of Dictionary and the feelings associated with them out of my psyche.
That is the only regret I have.


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~asto' ma sat gamaya