He asked me what I thought regret was.<\/span> \u201cWell, what do <\/span>you <\/span><\/i>think regret is?\u201d<\/span> And while he isn\u2019t wrong,<\/span> Regret is wishing you didn\u2019t buy those expensive shoes<\/span> Regret is a drunken encounter, seven shots in.<\/span> Regret is going to 8 am classes with two hours of sleep<\/span> Regret is full of language and the barriers that come with it.<\/span> \u201cWell,\u201d he asks, \u201cWhat do you think regret is?\u201d<\/span> Kyu Kyu Thein He asked me what I thought regret was. And, at first, I thought he was joking around. But his eyes were serious and his lips downturned so I had no choice but to actually respond.\u00a0 \u201cWell, what do you think regret is?\u201d I ask him, my mind blank of an answer. He Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-141","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141\/revisions\/764"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/18-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>And, at first, I thought he was joking around.<\/span>
\n<\/span>But his eyes were serious<\/span>
\n<\/span>and his lips downturned<\/span>
\n<\/span>so I had no choice but to actually respond.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>I ask him, my mind blank of an answer.<\/span>
\n<\/span>He shrugs.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cRegret is to wish that you could do things differently.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>I don\u2019t think that I\u2019d have the same answer as him.<\/span>
\n<\/span>To me, regret are words hung in the air<\/span>
\n<\/span>with both sides hesitating to catch them.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Regret is hesitant, curled up in a ball of anxiety<\/span>
\n<\/span>and sitting on the edge of your seat.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>so that you could have more money for groceries.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Regret is hair in the sink<\/span>
\n<\/span>and crooked bangs on your forehead.<\/span>
\n<\/span>It\u2019s seeing a person on campus –<\/span>
\n<\/span>not just any person but <\/span>the <\/span><\/i>person –<\/span>
\n<\/span>and wondering what could\u2019ve been.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>It\u2019s waking up with a pounding headache.<\/span>
\n<\/span>It\u2019s walking back home at three in the morning, in the windy cold.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Regret is wishing that,\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span>if he was gonna have the audacity to last two minutes,<\/span>
\n<\/span>he should\u2019ve at least bought you an Uber.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>and an energy drink in your hand.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Regret is wishing your mom still made you food.<\/span>
\n<\/span>God, you miss her cooking.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Regret is mumbling under your breath.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Regret is put into a cardboard box<\/span>
\n<\/span>and collects dust in the garage.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Regret never sees the day of light.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Regret shuts its eyes tightly<\/span>
\n<\/span>and braces for the fall that never comes.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>I check the time on my phone and shrug.<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cI like your answer.\u201d I say, before going back into the party.<\/span>
\n<\/span>I don\u2019t regret not telling him what my real answer was.<\/span>
\n<\/span>Sometimes, regret is better left unsaid.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"