I agree 100% with you Anthi. As I have posted in response to other's pieces: "Do not feel shame — shame is self-loathing and unproductive. Do not even feel regret, as I define it, because it seems you have manifested growth from your realization of mistake. I have made many mistakes in my life but I do not regret a single one of them because I cannot change the past and everything that has happened in my life, whether as the result of my intents and purposes or those of another, have lead to my soul-expanding and ego-merging growth into the person that I am now, and regret would be the anathema to the point of the 109 words on page 417 of the big book of AA, as described by me in https://medium.com/my-selection/my-selection-alcoholics-anonymous-colloquially-known-as-the-big-book-638b5ad7f2e1, and this is why I both vociferously disagree and agree with

Kimberly Fosu

’s Things That Happened in The Past, Regret like any other emotion serves a purpose.