Grief has the capacity to be a powerful, debilitating emotion. But according to Negroland author Margo Jefferson, there’s actually something that can be even harder to handle than grief: regret. “With grief, you’re mourning something that’s gone. With regret, you’re mourning ― missing ― something that never was,” Jefferson explains. “It didn’t happen, and that was because you wouldn’t or couldn’t let it happen.”Regret, she continues, has a unique staying power.

Source: Huffington Post January 17, 2017 18:04 UTC