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Julie’s Good Question 6 ~a continuing~

i realize that maybe it's not quite over.  the thought of 

regret

has stayed in my mind.  and i want to look at that some.  i had said that i don't have regret.  i don't.  but, it's really not a simple as just saying it.  and i want to look at that more.  the idea, thought, concept of regret. 

in thinking about it, i realize that it's just my own Life Filter that says no regret.  and realize that many others could view it very easily as different.  how both  our "given" filters, how our "chosen" filters actually Shape our sense of things, like Regret.

so,  these Side Posts of Julie's Good Question will continue to be open for me for as long as they seem to hold energy.

 

and an example, about 1o min later than the above, when i'd almost shut down for the night.

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so much water under so many bridges.  but here i am,  this night, almost dark with GOATS on the back porch.  i  heard their thumping and clunking and parted the curtain just so care fully to take the pic.  Goats.  Goats on the back porch.   how? could?  this figure in to any Regret?

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19 responses to “Julie’s Good Question 6 ~a continuing~”

  1. Minka Avatar
    Minka

    Sweet picture.
    Ahhhh, regret. Over time mine turns to acceptance. Sometimes.

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    i’m thinking too…that it, well no, not IT, not Regret
    itself, but the circumstances that we can too quickly
    lable as regretable, really can be and actually ARE
    something else entirely?????

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  3. Laura R Avatar
    Laura R

    I’m sorry, Grace. I may be the one who brought up the question of regret. It was just retorical, and I didn’t mean for you to have to discect your heart here. I feel guilty for bringing it up, but I didn’t really need for you to address it.

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  4. grace Avatar
    grace

    Laura..no…it wasn’t something that you brought up,
    actually it’s just what normally would come to mind
    when uhhh, doing a “Review” of life experience…that
    question. it’s just interesting to me. and again, this
    blog is first a kind of journal for my self. so, it’s
    where i look at what i’m doing. or not doing. what do
    I think about it all.
    love to you

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  5. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    having an interesting reaction to this posting. even the word . regret. without thinking about any thing in particular, the word itself–regret–stimulates feelings of itself. i’m sitting here testing this out. just said the word “milk”–not much of a response. “work”–not much either. “joy, happiness, sorrow”–yes, feelings arise but they’re more like just images or thoughts. but when i say the word “regret”–oh. amazing how it immediately darkens and mutes things. curious — this powerful response this morning–to six simple letters, to the word “regret.” maybe not today, but soon, this feels like a juicy space begging exploration.

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  6. grace Avatar
    grace

    i like your trying out words…testing the feltsense of
    them…
    and what i thought in the last hour or so was i realized
    i have a tendency to think of regret in…what would i
    regret NOT doing in any given situation?
    i know there is no word for guilt in Tibetan. i wonder
    too if there is no word for regret?

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  7. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    yes. i love this. what would i regret NOT doing. such a way to diffuse the conditioning and empower oneself. wow. wonderful.

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  8. jude Avatar
    jude

    i may have mentioned that a goat showed up here on my back deck once? I regret not taking a picture.

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  9. Minka Avatar
    Minka

    I think, yes.

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  10. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    love the goats on the back porch but regrets? oh yes I have some… for the hard words I have said to others over the years. “I will live my life without regrets” I said at 17… ah callow youth…

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  11. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    What is it you say, grace, about emotions? That they are a mental construct? I think regret may fall into a similar category.
    Regret, the idea, is something that comes alive in the present but refers to the past. We can do nothing about the past. We only have now. I think it asks us to be kind to ourselves and realize we did the best with what we had. We can learn from past mistakes that we now call regret.
    So I think regret is just a feeling that asks us for compassion.
    Except in Jude’s case… No picture of a goat on the back step? Well, jude, you do have you beautiful memory!

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  12. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    i find regret valuable now, when I can bear the icky way it makes me feel,, as a flag. The flag waves “make amends now” or “speak differently this time.”

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  13. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. i wish you had

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    any hard words…i have apologized for. done.

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  15. grace Avatar
    grace

    thoughts being mental constructs that give rise to emotion
    but yes.
    i think Regret is a Great Teacher

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    exactly. look. change what presents as wanting change.

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  17. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    Oh you are good & I was told if you have been good in this lifetime you get to come back in the next to New Orleans, Let the Good Times Roll! Aaark! Aaaaarrrrkkk ! Aaaaaaaaarrrkkk-k-k-k !!

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    New Orlins, huh? well. i might get a little bad then?

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  19. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    hope to see you there!

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