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Flash Fiction | MicroXpression | Prompt | Regrets
Looking Back
We’ve all got regrets.
Agency Magazine, August 3, 2025, MicroXpression Microfiction
Life is a crapshoot. You never know when you say or do something how it may be interpreted or affect something or someone down the line.
It would be hard to believe, as we look back at all the things we’ve ever done or said, that we don’t regret something.
Maybe we told someone something that we shouldn’t have. Maybe we didn’t tell someone something we should have.
And we might carry those instances with us our entire lives.
But how do we not do this?
Do we need to know the future? To recognize how others, or even ourselves, will be affected in the long run? Or do we realize that this is just a fact of life, and we try to resolve issues and mistakes we make?
We can’t change the past, but hopefully we can learn from it.
Personally, I could write an entire book about the regrets I carry. And they have changed my life in ways that drag me down. But I get up each day and continue on the best I can. It’s all I can do. But everyone has their own problems, and we all deal with them in our own way.
