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Infants on Thrones

Ep 43 – Minisode – Regret

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Glenn shares one of his greatest regrets.

Transcript

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This is Infants on Thrones.

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Minnesot.

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Minnesot.

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Ynesot.

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Regret.

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Verb. to feel sad, repentant, or disappointed over, something that has happened or been

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done, especially a loss or a missed opportunity, like she immediately regretted her words. a repentance or disappointment over something that has happened or been done.

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She expressed regret at Virginia's death.

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You know, there are probably several different kinds of regret. Constant regret that paralyzes you in a state of despondency probably isn't a very healthy thing.

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But the kind of regret that's a realization that you actually could have done something better than the way that you did it?

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Well, I think that's pretty useful and a pretty essential form of regret. here is always the best way to learn.

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Be tracing your steps till you know.

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Now there's a certain type of person who takes pride in having no regrets. It becomes some

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kind of life motto to them and they look at regret as some evidence of personal of world that they aren't a loser. I used to be married to someone like that and it was unsuffrable.

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I used to be married to someone like that and it was unsuffrable.

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Maybe you're one of these people

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yourselves. If so, my apologies up front because I'm going to be a little

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judgey here, but seriously.

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No regrets. No regrets. So you're saying that every single thing you've ever done has been the best

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choice that it ever could have possibly been in that situation?

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Come on.

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So today is my birthday.

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