… which I find seldom happens in real life. In real life, people wallow in and relish their mistakes, their intentional cruelties, and virtually all of their other actions.

I know this, because I have been a people for some number of years. My moral failings are stubbornly persistent.

The frequency of use of certain phrases in clickbait titles, of course, reflects how effective they are. It appears many of us wish people would instantly regret hurting us. We would settle for regret at any point in time, but the instantly part means we get to be around to see it.

I have seldom seen anyone in my life immediately be sorry for hurting me, apart from the people closest to me — and perhaps that’s why they are the people closest to me. My life is awash in regret; I seem to have as many things I wish I hadn’t done as things I’m glad I did.

But I am a “slow to realize” person. Which is another regret.

I am thinking of starting to use more Clickbait devices in my titles. You won’t believe what happens next…