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I regret everything, and you should too. A lot of times, the word "regret" has a stigma on it. It's like a negative word, and everyone says, "No regrets! Live life with no regrets! You should regret nothing." That's not true. You should regret things because without regret, you would never be able to analyze and become a better person from your mistakes in your past.
Nietzsche was a materialist, and he was an atheist. And he always taught that a human being had to regret to be able to learn. And he also taught that without regret, without mistakes, you would not be who you were to this day. You wouldn't be who you are. It's like a puzzle. Every single piece of the puzzle has to be put together for it to represent the full picture. If there's even one piece missing, the picture will be incomplete.
I would not be who I am today if it weren't for all of the things I've done in the past. And if you've known me for a while, you've known I've done some very embarrassing and degenerate and disgusting things in my past. I was, in my opinion, a dishonorable person as a teenager. I was ghetto and ratchet, and I decided to partake in disgusting things and hang around disgusting people. And I'm not saying that in a derogatory way towards those individuals. They're still people, just like me. However, in my opinion now, who I am today, in terms of the world and status, the people that I surrounded myself with were on the lowest tier of people. Most of them, not all, but most of them.
And I had to go through that representation of who I was trying to be to become who I am today, if that makes any sense in what I'm saying. I had to play the role of the person I thought I wanted to be to find out really that I didn't want to be that way, and that I wasn't meant to be like these people on that echelon, on the same echelon they're on. I'm not meant to be on that tier. I'm not meant to be on that level. And the only way I would ever understand that truly and completely is by going through it. That's why my brain works. I don't know how you guys work, but that's how my brain works.
So, I've experienced a plethora of existences in this world. I've been through more things than probably the typical growing woman, like an 80-year-old woman. I've probably been through more extreme life experiences than that, and I'm not saying that to brag. Don't be like me. Uh, everybody has their own life path. That's just mine. And there's been a lot of questionable actions and things that I've been through and done and decided to partake in. But again, I do regret those things, but I wouldn't erase those things.
Think about it. Let me just use an example of maybe you as a woman. I'm going to use woman first because I'm a woman. You decided to be with one guy instead of the other guy. That guy eventually cheats on you, and you regret not being with the other guy, or you feel the regret. Now, you don't want to admit you regret it because if you admitted that, then it would be some sort of ego death. Like I'm in a school of bullying, and no one wants to admit that they regret things most of the time. They most of the time want to put that blame aside and say, "No, I don't regret it. It was supposed to happen that way. I don't regret anything."
But to feel the shame and the conviction, that is regret, and you should feel that because if you didn't feel that, you would never learn. You would never learn from your mistakes. You would continue to do them. And if you do continue to do them anyway, you you never really regretted them for real. You haven't been there yet. And it took me a while to get to where I am. I always had this stone mindset of, "I don't regret anything. You only live once. I want to experience everything." I regret that. And I'm grateful that I regret that.
I don't really know if this video is making too much sense, but regret is not a bad thing. You 100% should regret things. If you don't regret, you should be worried because that means you're not learning from your mistakes. It's really important. I remember being so, I guess, narcissistic or in my own ego that I would make the most stupid decisions. Blatantly stupid decisions. And there would be people that would call me out on those things. And in the back of my mind, I knew that they were correct, but my ego was so big, and I would just be like, "Nah, I don't care. I don't regret it. It was worth it." What? Why is that something that we aspire to be like? Social media pushes that. "Don't regret. Don't regret." Yes, you should regret. Regret is the only thing that will hold you to a higher standard. It It seems like common sense to me now, but even just a few years ago, I wasn't.
Anyways, um, short video today, guys, but the bottom line is you should regret your stuff. You should regret your mistakes. You should contemplate them. That is what guides you to be better.