Subsidiary Regrets and Aspirations

There are regrets and there are aspirations. One man's regret can be another man's aspiration.

One man can live in small cottage by the sea and see it as a dead end, with each passing day representing stagnation, thus backward movement (i.e., if you are not growing you are dying).

Another man can live in the same cottage and see it as the culmination of a long-held long-traveled road of aspiration.

Regrets and aspirations can be subsidiary regrets and aspirations.

Sometimes the regrets and aspirations can be subconscious, sometime half-conscious, sometimes fully conscious.

It might be that one is trying to fit in with the social expectations prevalent in their upbringing.

It might be that one is trying to make up for a canyon of perceived lack, such as years of drug abuse.

I suspect that ultimately the greatest aspiration of men is to know unending joy. All other aspirations are subsidiary, even sometimes diversions.
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