acceptance / regret

It’s the doorway to peace, not because the pain goes away, but because the suffering from resisting it does.

https://open.substack.com/pub/noplotnoproblem/p/on-radical-acceptance-and-the-art?selection=07b1f4cf-a25c-410d-9ff6-0409ba4d221a&r=249d4e&utm_medium=ios

“Radical acceptance means that you have stopped fighting with reality and throwing fits about what has happened. You have decided to acknowledge and accept it instead. Once you do this, you may feel intense sadness because you have now given up on all hope of a better past or a better outcome currently. At the same time, you may also feel great

before now, i never really had to sit with regret. at the age of 25, i thought i was someone who didn’t regret things - i didn’t feel like there was a good or bad decision to be made. i felt as if i trusted the decision i made at the time is one that i want. i know now, that is not true. i have truly made a decision i deeply regret.

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