The art of making regrets

I’ve been working on a mantra that embraces regrets.

I’ve been told to live in a way that you leave no regrets behind and lurking in the back to torture me later on.

But I’m have too many interests at the same time to start anything in an orderly manner. I can’t approach them. I can’t start them. I can’t keep going with them because other interests remind me they are still there. I can’t finish them. Every one of them ends up being a regret.

So what do I do?

So far I managed to think this way: prioritize the interests (somehow) and stick with one or two. Let the rest of the others sit in the background to revisit once the first one or two have run its full course. Let the others wear hat called “regret,” and that is okay. At least I will have accomplished the one or two.

It’s like process of elimination. What can I do to make as little regrets as possible when I have a bucket full of ideas that will be regrets anyway because I can’t get to them right now? Which fruits do I pick from the bucket and eat it while it’s still fresh and I can enjoy it?

I’ve been telling myself that let’s just have the regrets. Let’s have a list of things we didn’t get to do. That’s more hopeful and exciting than having an empty list. Let’s just do something now today and keep wandering and being curious and taking action along the way.