There was once a man, so driven with career and personal ambition, that he spent what seemed to be every waking moment building his small business into a robust and highly lucrative Wall Street brokerage firm, serving hundreds. Day in and day out he worked even into evenings and weekends. After 25 years and at the age of 55 he looked back and only found that in the name of greater wealth and allusive power, that he had for years, entirely neglected his wife and children.
Despite the fact that he now longed to repair those years which were “lost,” he sadly discovered that his family were now only strangers and resented him for his willful neglect. This produced in him overwhelming regret. According to the American Psychological Association (APA), “regret” is best defined as an emotional response to the remembrance of one’s past state, condition or previous experience which they had wished had a different outcome.
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