" Perhaps you have put the past behind you, and whatever regrets you might have had have been set aside, because you don not see their purpose. Time softens all griefs, they say, and it is useless to dwell on the lives that might have been. We are granted only one life, and one life is enough. Whom do such regrets profit? What do they achieve, except to bring us unhappiness? "

― Peter Hobbs , In the Orchard, the Swallows