Regret and the Days of Awe
MARK RANTZ
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
1 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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