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Coffee and I are old friends (coffee is older than me of course) and I do a lot of thinking over coffee. With this in mind I decided to start a little concept called *thoughts over coffee* which I'll be doing from time to time. 
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I don't like laziness or reward it and while I don't have anything against down-time, relaxation, doing nothing and such other legitimate activities being lazy grinds my gears. I've been doing a series of posts talking about different forms of laziness that people disguise with excuses. 

### Laziness - Regret

How can the feeling of regret be laziness? 

> Don't fool yourself, wallowing in regret, dwelling on it, is laziness because it holds you back. Life moves forwards not backwards so there's no point attaching mooring lines to the past and that's exactly what regret does. 

Despite it feeling (and being) negative, many people embrace regret because *doing nothing is easier than taking affirmative action* and the latter comes with risk as well - and human beings have become very risk-averse. Interestingly, it was risk (and fear) that helped the human species advance (and survive) and now so many shun it. Imagine if the first Homo sapiens (that's us) took no risks, they'd have starved to death, never spread around the world or done pretty much anything else. You're here because someone took risks. (Anyway, I digress). 

Regret takes up valuable energy that can be better-used devising ways forward, better thoughts and actions, that will ultimately lead to there being less chance for regret in the future. Every day and each moment in it is an opportunity to move onwards in better ways having learned from the past but holding regret for the past (I mean *holding tightly to it and dwelling upon it*) isn't going to inspire and promote forward momentum. 

We all regret something in life but tethering ourselves to the past and those memories with it is unproductive; learning from it, the things that we have regret over, is more productive...as long as we work on them to make some changes. 

What do you reckon? If you want to comment below then go ahead, I'm interested in your thoughts and experiences. 

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*Design and create your ideal life, tomorrow isn't promised* - galenkp

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