Why Regrets Are Good (And People Who Say Otherwise Are Wrong) There’s a vapid sentence people like to say in interviews and late-night conversations. “I have no regrets.” It’s supposed to signal courage. Backbone. Fearlessness. A life lived without hesitation. We often admire that person. That’s because we’re also suckers for a polished lie. Because unless you’re emotionally anesthetized or profoundly unreflective, you have regrets. If you’ve loved people. If you’ve raised children. If you’ve built anything that matters. You have regrets. There was a time when I […]

They call it a thunderclap. I did not ease into this headache. It detonated my brain. People say dying is easy compared to living honestly. I didn’t yet know if that was true, but I was about to find out what the popular idiom dying is easy actually means. One moment I was upright and functional. The next I was on the floor, blinded, gripping my skull, vomiting, then gone. When I came to, my brain still roared. I did what everyday life in 2022 prescribes for the