For many sybarites, the worst part of the morning after isn’t the crushing headache, but the directionless regret that often follows a night of carousing. Even if you remember everything that happened last night, chances are that your strong moral sensibility was, shall we say, feeling flexible. You didn’t do anything wrong, technically speaking, right? It was all completely innocent. Or, was it?
Such errors in judgment are simply the collateral damage of an evening out. No matter how well-crafted, we drink our drinks to shirk the instincts that normally hem us in. A little regret is a healthy sign of your rejuvenated adherence to the social code. But regret needn’t sully your entire day. You can dispatch it with positive thinking!
Here’s how: sit in a quiet place with your eyes closed. Take a deep
breath, and softly say, “I may choose to greet this day with regret for
past behavior, or with hopefulness for the future.” When you open your
eyes, poof, like Dorothy back in Kansas, your regret will be gone. Arlo Haskell, editor of Littoral, the blog of the Key West Literary Seminar. (Embury is hubbing out of Key West this week where, it must be said, finding redemption after a too-big night is considerably easier than in many other parts of the world--see photo above.)
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