“Listen, you’re going to get up and you’re going to think of that math test you messed up on” echoed the Regression Voice. “I have the key that can only allow you to escape of me but until then, you’re locked up in my jail”. We have all done things in life that we wish we could regret; this varies between not studying hard enough for a test to missing a goal in soccer, regret has its flavours. But why do we regret? We, as humans simple believe that we should have made a better choice, but we didn’t. Paul D’Angelo, the author of the “The Step Not Taken” can give a perfect explanation of how regret feels. He chooses to not help a weeping businessman in an elevator and later on regretted it because he believed his choice was not the right choice.
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I wish to go back in the past to fix foolish errors and clear up all the problems that I have faced due to those errors. To me, regression can go from choosing to eat at Subway instead of popeyes or not studying hard enough for a good grade; I have experienced it. The amount of time I regretted makes a score keeper crazy. I am a real sinner but Paul D’Angelo is with me on this one. D’Angelo said in his essay of “The Step Not Taken” “That I hope things are looking up for him. That I hope his sorrow is in the past. That his sorrow is in the past. That I hope he is never again burden with such awful despair. That I was wrong, dreadfully wrong, not to step in his time of need”. He elaborates the significance of how much he really wants the businessman’s life to go uphill, even after that awful despair. In addition, he explains in his last sentence of the quote of how he wishes to enter the past only to change the perspective of the business man of Paulo D’Angelo’s real side; a cruel kindness. I, myself am a mere reflection of Paulo D’Angelo’s real side when I once witnessed a similar scenario as him. One time, I had come face to face with a man who was brutally beaten after a fight. He looked like he had just been beaten within the jail scariest jails of India, but that was silly of me. He looked like he was in great depression with tears streaming down his face, and blood flowing through his mouth at the same speed of light. I stopped a fair 5 m in front of the man, deciding whether to approach or not. The clock was running down and I walked past with many regrets in my heads. I can only explain so much with such little
I wish to go back in the past to fix foolish errors and clear up all the problems that I have faced due to those errors. To me, regression can go from choosing to eat at Subway instead of popeyes or not studying hard enough for a good grade; I have experienced it. The amount of time I regretted makes a score keeper crazy. I am a real sinner but Paul D’Angelo is with me on this one. D’Angelo said in his essay of “The Step Not Taken” “That I hope things are looking up for him. That I hope his sorrow is in the past. That his sorrow is in the past. That I hope he is never again burden with such awful despair. That I was wrong, dreadfully wrong, not to step in his time of need”. He elaborates the significance of how much he really wants the businessman’s life to go uphill, even after that awful despair. In addition, he explains in his last sentence of the quote of how he wishes to enter the past only to change the perspective of the business man of Paulo D’Angelo’s real side; a cruel kindness. I, myself am a mere reflection of Paulo D’Angelo’s real side when I once witnessed a similar scenario as him. One time, I had come face to face with a man who was brutally beaten after a fight. He looked like he had just been beaten within the jail scariest jails of India, but that was silly of me. He looked like he was in great depression with tears streaming down his face, and blood flowing through his mouth at the same speed of light. I stopped a fair 5 m in front of the man, deciding whether to approach or not. The clock was running down and I walked past with many regrets in my heads. I can only explain so much with such little