Regret is a painful thing. Few people understand that there are three important things that leave us and can never return. Words. Time. Opportunity. These are things we can never get back.

Kathryn Perez
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The idea that we cannot get back the things that have been lost from our life is a sad truth. It is a truth that Edward Bellamy, a famous writer of the late 1800s, understood. Bellamy said, "Regret is a painful thing. Few people understand that there are three important things that leave us and can never return.

Words. Time. Opportunity." Indeed, words are an important part of our lives, but they are only fleeting.

Bellamy says that time is another thing we cannot get back. In Bellamy’s time, time was measured by the sun. Bellamy’s message was to live in the present moment and not worry about the future or what you can no longer do because of some mistake or regret

Source: Letters Written In White

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