Regret? Making choices can do that.

The exquisite pain of being alive has something to do ... with how impossible it should be to have these moments of beauty—this sea breeze, that inquisitive finch, this small foot in a bunk bed, that laughter after a fall—but perhaps even more to do with how many choices we slowly realize we can never relive, never re-choose. 

- Elizabeth Cantwell, “Maybe So, Sir but Not Today: The Fragile Humanity of Top Gun: Maverick”