I have no permanent regrets - just short term regrets where I've taken time to reflect, figured out what went wrong or right, and moved on to creating a better version of myself.
'These projects will be a source of permanent grief and regret for future generations,' says a Chinese geologist.
"This patient's tattooed DNR request produced more confusion than clarity, given concerns about its legality and likely unfounded beliefs that tattoos might represent permanent reminders of regretted decisions made while the person was intoxicated," the paper's authors wrote.
This is especially remarkable given television's legacy of portraying the opposite having a woman consider abortion only to either be convinced not to by her partner, or suffering permanent psychological damage and regret after going through the procedure.
"I just don't want you to make any permanent changes that you might regret …" she started.
But not once did I regret recommending a permanent removal, because I knew we had done everything we could to avoid that outcome.
And as the undergraduate enterprise has shrunk in the past decade, higher education has responded by sloughing off its most vulnerable, most contingent members with no regrets, retaining the permanent faculty to teach those undergrads who remain, along with all of those more advanced graduate students in all those new programs.
In the interior region, Ms. Yan Lu, a 33-year-old cosmetic product salesperson, expressed her regrets of quitting her permanent position in a large-scale state-owned steel factory.
Seven years later, when he wrote the novel, Dick was suffering from permanent pancreatic damage and had begun to regret his earlier indulgence.
Conventional wisdom suggested I'd regret every aspect of the decision because tattoos are permanent, and mine was the most permanent thing in my immediate life.
