So what does someone do with a challenge such as REGRET when she actually regrets nothing. To quote a favourite line from a favourite movie:
“They say they built the train tracks over the Alps before there was a train that could make the trip. They built it anyway. They knew one day the train would come. Any arbitrary turning along the way, and I would be elsewhere. I would be different. What are four walls, anyway? They are what they contain. The house protects the dreamer. Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game. It’s such a surprise.” – Under The Tuscan Sun.
So there is nothing I would go back and change…nothing I regret because “any arbitrary turning along the way, and I would be elsewhere. I would be different.”
In that case obviously I could focus on regret for others.
Or I could show you how I feel about where I am now.
And how I feel about regret…
wrench yourself from wretchedness
carrying friends in your slipstream…
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Another blogger posted her REGRET…and it really spoke to me. Check out what Angelinem has to say.
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Oh, yes! Perfect.
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Glad you think so Angeline !!
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Love your outlook and couldn’t agree more with you!
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So glad to hear that you do !
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yes… love it.
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Thanks Maggie. That pleases me no end !
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Lovely first photo! Thank you for the pingback! 🙂
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Glad to hear you liked that one ! And you’re welcome.
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beautiful … carrying friends in your slipstream! thanks jo 🙂 http://wp.me/p296YA-2j
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Thanks !! Love that you singled that line out.
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Very wise and beautiful Jo 🙂
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Thanks Gilly – I quite enjoyed yours this week as well…
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The images are beautiful.
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Thank you so much for saying so…
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What a beautiful piece!
Great pics and prose!
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Thank you Hook !!!
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Wonderful observations! I’ll try to use your inspiration to find my regret photo!
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Thank you Margie – can’t wait to see what you come up with.
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I’m with you. I really don’t regret anything or hold on to stuff. Great entry!
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Thanks Cee !! Life is (I know it is cliche – but true) too short for regret.
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How beautiful. thanks for the pingback. You landed in my spam folder…
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Thanks !
I have had that happen a lot lately with people who have commented before even…weird !
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Great pictures Jo….u always inspiring me for taking more pictures
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What a lovely comment to leave me. Thanks !!
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Excellent sentiments – and beautiful pictures.
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Thank you !! From you that is a great compliment.
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LOL, thanks Jo – mutual admiration society….. (((hugs)))
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Awwwwww – (((hugs))) right back atcha !!!!
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I wish I could say I was like you. I have regrets. Enough to fill a battleship. I think that’s why I turn to photography and writing. Did you know that I was in the middle of the third novel. It’s probably the first readable novel in progress. The first two were rambling, interesting only to me.
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Well you’re not the only writer to say that about their first attempts at a writing…this one may be the masterpiece…
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wonderful collection. well done..;)
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Thank you – I appreciate your saying so…
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Love your thoughts on this prompt. That’s a great way to be. it’s easy to put energy into thinking backwards instead of thinking forwards.I must try and remember that – ‘Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere…’
Writing from the Edge
http://lorely-writingfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2012/02/picture-it-in-your-own-words-3-regret.html
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That quote has always struck a chord in me…
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PS – I am all in support of your anti-cages, anti battery-hens! Join the ‘Chickens Out’ campaign! There’s lots about chickens and hens on my blog, including Run, Chicken, Run! (http://lorely-writingfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2011/11/run-chicken-run.html)
Saw a great piece the other day – someone had been knitting little jackets for newly released battery hens who’d been caught out in the cold snap in England!
Writing from the Edge
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Awwwwwww – I HATE battery cages. They are so cruel !!!
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absolutely always great entry from my friend 🙂
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Thanks Jake, you are always so encouraging !!
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Great series of photos!
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Thank you so mauch !
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Perfect Jo!
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Thank you – I appreciate your saying so !!
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Amazing, beautiful, breathtaking. So much calmness in those pictures. Beautiful words as well. Thanks….
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Thank you – love that you think so !!
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Beautiful post, great photos 🙂
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Thanks !!
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I like this post, Jo… and great photos!
We are where we are, no regrets – is a nice way to look at things. I can’t say I look that way 100% of the time… but I want to!
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Sometimes i find it hard to do that as well…but I go out and find something that grabs my attention completely and loose myself in that…it reminds me what matters.
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Beautiful Jo! I don’t know if I should think of you as a poetic photographer or photographic poet, you do both beautifully and with passion.
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How about a poetic photographic writer ?? Huh ?
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Oops, I guess I figured poet covered writing, besides, writer doesn’t have a “P” in it. 😉
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Oh. Oh. I know – poetic, photographic person of letters…
Huh ? Huh ?
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Poetic, photographic person, printing prose and paragraphs on paper, painting pithy pictures with popular pallets?
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Oh now you’re just…well just !!!
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Oh Wow.
This is the only regret post I’ve seen with a positive theme. Very pleasantly surprised. 🙂
Wonderful pictures, too.
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Glad you liked the theme and photos – I see no real purpose in regrets – they just waste your time now !
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Thank you. I kinda needed to hear that. I quit a well paying job where everything was set for me to rise quickly, for something else. I keep wondering if that was the right thing, it’s almost beginning to border on regret.
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Oh NO !!!! Keep going towards the dream…
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Thanks for visiting. Great Quotes and pictures!! Keep it up!
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Thank you !!
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Wonderful, positive post with fantastic photos! Great entry Jo!
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Thanks Theresa – I was aiming for upbeat – life is way to short to waste time on regrets.
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Friends in the slip stream, nice. As a connoisseur of gulls in flight I applaud your effort. You must have taken hundreds of shots…
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About ten then the battery on my cellphone started to run down – how did I know – the cellphone speaks. Oh yes it does…says: ‘battery low’ in a deep voice.
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Perfect post for this week’s challenge. An intelligent one, with great quotes. The photographs are really beautiful.
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Thank You !!
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Good message, Jo
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Thanks.
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PROFOUND! 🙂 I enjoyed viewing your blog! thanks for sharing the picturesque photos! BTW, I’ve watched Under the Tuscan Sun years ago, yet the vivid memory of that awesome film lingers…
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It is awesome !!!
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INDEED! 🙂 have a great time!
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Thanks – I am trying to !!
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Thes photos are absolutely stunning, jo. Nothing to regret there.
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Thank you – what a wonderful comment for me to come on and read.
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the bird photos are uh-mazing! 🙂
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Thanks you so much for saying so – they were interesting to watch, but very hard to get on film…
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Beautiful pictures! They are perfect for framing and for display in the living room 🙂
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Thank you – maybe I will do exactly that.
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Beautiful Photos…
Great outlook…
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nice pictures!
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Thanks Joshi
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thanks for the link, Jo. i kept looking at the challenge page and could not find it. must have kept missing it somehow. anyhow, i appreciate your help to get here 🙂 these are beautiful images – and i agree with your take on regret.
it has been said that regret is a choice, and that choosing regret keeps you from all the blessings and opportunities that could be yours today, but for the regret. this then increases the regret about all those lost moments down the road. and so regret fuels and feeds one regret after another.
and so it is wise to choose not to regret, but to forgive others – whether they ask for forgiveness or not – and to forgive oneself if that is what is needed, and then move on. how liberating is that!
life is much too short for regret.. thanks for sharing! 🙂
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Very inspiring Jo! 🙂
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I am glad you think so…
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