What you seek is seeking you.*
Rumi

Well, let’s just say we all have regrets and most of us know that those regrets, as excruciating as they can be, are the things that help us lead improved lives … certain regrets that, and they emerge, can accompany us on the incremental bettering of our lives.**
Nick Cave

The things I regret are strange to me,
Indeed – whilst I wince at some of my choices,
There would have been no coming to the work I lovewithout them,
Their consequences nudging me towards something
more important, more valuable, though buried within me:
Would I have come to this same place with better choices?

I don’t know,
Maybe I would still be pursuing what I
I could not name, still eluding
that which pursued me; I only know that
I stopped to look regret in the eye.

Contemplation is meeting as much reality as we can handle in its most simple and immediate form – without filters, judgements, or commentaries.^

*Ben Hardy’s Be Your Future Self Now;
**Nick Cave and Seán O’Hagan’s Faith, Hope and Carnage;
^Brian McLaren’s Faith After Doubt.