Making Peace with Regret

Regret isn’t the enemy.
It’s the echo of a younger self who didn’t yet know what you know now.

You can’t rewrite the moment, but you can soften its grip.
You can speak the truth you once swallowed, offer kindness where fear once led, or take a small step of courage your former self couldn’t imagine.

Some repairs happen on the outside.
Some happen quietly inside the heart.
Both are real. Both are healing.

What matters now is not perfection, but honesty —
and a willingness to treat yourself gently as you grow beyond who you once had to be.

Before this life ends, you still have time:

Time to release what was never yours.
Time to forgive what you could not see then.
Time to walk forward with a little more light than you carried before.

Let that be enough.