According to one study by Gilovich et al., published in Psychological Review, some regrets will heal over time, but others will be less likely to. That's because there are two types of regret: regrets of commission and regrets of omission. Regrets of commission are regrets about things you did, while regrets of omission are regrets about things you did not do. Guess which ones we regret for the longest time? That's right – we regret the things we don't do for longer and in fact those regrets tend never to heal (though I can think of at least one example in my personal history that largely goes against that). This seems like a clear message to 'grab life by the horns' as it were and to 'do more stuff', but again it's probably a little more complicated than that… That Which Has Been Done… The first thing I noticed when thinking about this study was that chances you didn't take tend to be easier to rectify than those you did. 'That which has been done, cannot be undone', and yet 'that which is not done may yet be done'.
In other words, if you're regretting not doing something still… then an obvious solution is to simply do it now. Pick up the phone and get talking to the one that got away! The other point to consider is that the whole concept of 'paths not taken' is one that is somewhat arbitrary at best. The reason
