Regret should be avoided. Look back too hard too often and he’ll turn you into salt. It could happen the very next time, so don't try it. That sad archaeology will let Regret rob you of the only two things you will ever have: Here and Now.
Here and Now sip coffee in an all night diner, tracing libidinous patterns on the tablecloth. They flirt and negotiate the world with their eyes. They're plotting a bank robbery. Or a coup. Here and Now can do anything they want and that is a seductive proposition indeed, so long as Regret stays sitting alone on his stool at the counter. He pretends to read the want ads while he eavesdrops.
Here and Now run out the door into a waiting sedan. Now grips the steering wheel and tears down the highway while Here hangs out the window, waving goodbye to befuddled Regret.
