76. The Pain of Regret Is Seeing the Person You Were Meant to Become in Someone Else’s Victory Speech
You watch someone step up, break through, speak truth—and every word hits you in the gut. Because it sounds like something you would’ve said. Something you could’ve built. And now, as the applause fills the room, all you can do is wonder what might’ve happened if you had trusted your gift the way they trusted theirs. That’s the pain of regret. Not envy—recognition. Recognition of a version of you that never took the stage.

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