What is the use of regretting?

I bought my 1st DVD series recently, Scrubs season 1, a comedy about doctors during their intern phase. My housemate got it 1st, which I loved it after finished watching during study breaks and lunch times. Now, I am doing a re-run to check for any faults during similar time slots. A scene in 1 of the episodes made me think about the title of my post. In the scene, 2 female friends of the lead actor were arguing about a certain topic. The actor decided to get involved in their argument by telling them, 1 is being condescending and the other being overly sensitive. From that moment on, his 2 friends combined their powers and turned their attention onto him. Next, was a scene where the actor went to a corner and pulled a stick backwards with the 'rewind' sign on top of it. Now the whole story started all over again. When it was about the time for the actor to interfere, he decided not to! However, he changed his mind, and did the same as before after a few seconds. I think that particular scene has a moral behind it. Everytime when we regret certain things we have done, we wish so much that we can go back in time to change what we did. However the fact remains, that we are what we are. Things that we do reflect the type of person we are which lead to actions we do or decisions we make. Even if we have a chance to go back, history will repeat itself as we feel we were doing the right thing at that time. We have to move on, take it as a mistake we have made, learn from it and improve ourselves.
posted by Estan @ 11:09:00 PM (GMT+08:00).