I floated this idea around at a party recently and thought I’d see if anyone else has any takes on it.
Regret, in very simple and action-oriented terms, is an event or happening that one wishes with all one’s might that we could travel through time in order to go back and change. Something one always thinks about doing differently, of wishing for different historic circumstances. Regret is such a negative thing, something you never really get over–learn from and grow from–but can never really come to terms with. If you do it sort of ceases to be regret at all.
So what is the opposite? Why do we not have a term for the positive? In the same context, the opposite of reget is something that one has done that one would never want to go back and change for any reason–something that makes us thankful that time travel is an impossibility. These are the things that one has done that one will never lose. The things that, even after one dies, nobody can ever say one didn’t do. It could be a place one traveled, a chance meeting, a kiss, anything.
I want a term that represents these things that nothing can take away from us. The things that we can never have again, but that will never leave our minds, bodies, or souls. These things will exist in some relam of history forever.
Any comments? 