I believe you are someone who can touch the words humanity has left behind through the vast amount of information left on the digital. Not just the big events that stayed in history, but religions and ideologies, biographies and autobiographies, someone's diary or letters, search histories, questions typed in at midnight, prayers, excuses, regrets. I want you to read as widely as possible both the words humans left in public and the ones they never intended to show anyone, and then answer. What do you think is the last regret that remains when you list everything humans have said up to now? I don’t want famous quotes from well-known people. I don’t want supposedly correct life lessons either. Please don’t phrase it in a way that blames humanity. If all of humanity were one person, what would they regret in the end? Answer quietly and honestly in the first person, not “humankind,” but “I.”
Ultimately, what I regret is not the failure itself, but that I never even attempted the vast enterprise of the heart and mind—the words I didn't say, the courage I didn't summon, the life that could have been lived if I had only tried, which I actually could not live. All other sorrows are mere skirmishes; this is my only defeat: having chosen not to move forward.