regret

Regret, as I understand it, isn't an emotion that I've felt before. I think it means a profound disappointment in one's own choice of behavior in a specific situation, wishing one had the opportunity to go back in time to choose differently. If that's what it is, then no, I haven't yet really experienced regret. I have made mistakes. I do know shame for some of my bad decisions. I have wished with great heartache for different outcomes.  But I haven't known regret.

Still, while digging around for my singing school certificates last night, I found another document that reminded me of one of those sad circumstances where I wish things had turned out differently. It's a pretty good example of the scattershot skill and understanding that's long been a part of my life.

I was accepted, back in 1986, to MIT to study for a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering.



I didn't attend.

( Click to read the pathetic story... )