On Regret

Regret is useless, it’s not like you can do anything about it. Its there, its ugly, best thing you can do is move on. Of course you have to learn from it, because that is the whole point of screwing up, but you can’t get stuck on the past regretting you sent that email or ate the last brownie.
Lizzie regrets every move she made regarding Mr. Darcy “I cannot fix on the hour, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun” And I can’t help but pit the fool.
I mean, so what? You had to marry someone anyways and lucky you got a stud for a hubby, make the best of it. You idiot, you though he truly loved you, no man with such scary sideburns can ever love a woman properly. Now that you realized getting married had little of nothing with being in love you can start another book, learn a new language, knit a tie… your pick! You have roughly forty more years to waste.