Regret is an interesting experience. I wonder what it means to regret something. To wish it had never happened. There’s a lot of pain in every person’s history. Many mistakes. Much damage done. But doesn’t all of this accumulate to make you who you are? And if you have a healthy self-regard - if you think well of yourself - then doesn’t this mean that all that pain, all those mistakes, all the damage done - has to be affirmed? Is regret, in the end, a symptom of self-hatred? Nietzsche’s idea of