Question: Why do we grieve about our past regrets as we grow older?
Answer: It is a natural reaction to start turning to the past as we lose sight of the future, as we expect less and less pleasures, hopes from the future. It is “convenient” to be “sad” about past sufferings, past regrets as they are already behind us, they have become solved this way or that way, so while we regret them it is a sweet regret.
Our basic operating software is built on egocentric “pleasure/pain” calculations and our personal computer has strange ways of obtaining the pleasures. If we can’t find any positive pleasures in the present, and we can’t hope for pleasures from the future, at least we can muse about the “sad past” as it is “safe”, it already happened, it cannot become any worse than that.
Of course the solution is to have positive goals pulling us towards the future, and such positive goals we can receive only from a positive, purposeful society, close environment.
Entering The Force-Field 