How Embarking On a Regret-Free Life is Reshaping the Course of My Story
In response to Dancing Elephants prompt 1 of Life Column
I am committed to living a life of no regrets.
No, it didn’t happen overnight. I consciously took this decision a few years back after freeing myself from a toxic long-term relationship.
That was step 1 in my journey embarking on the path of living a regret-free life.
Some may immediately assume that this might have something to do with living a hedonistic lifestyle, but that is not the intent of what I’m discussing here.
I have often beaten myself thinking about what I did wrong in this lifetime or a previous one to deserve a partner whose cruelty at times knew no bounds. At other times I would blame myself for not standing up for myself and leaving sooner.
It is deeply heart-wrenching when your own friends tell you to have some self-respect and move on instead of enduring life as a doormat but basking in the warm glow of secure relationships, they never grasped the profound impact of trauma bonding or how deeply it can run.
Or the power of gaslighting.
To be repeatedly called stupid and a waste of space until you really begin to believe that it is the…
