Repentance is the conscious recognition of an error or fault and becomes a virtue when one does everything possible to remedy the damage that has been done.
Probably to some extent psychologists have responsibility in the use of that phrase incorporated into the characters of many people.
Psychologists in their eagerness to avoid self-destructive feelings encouraged people to leave behind their feelings of guilt, in addition self-improvement books did their part and showed us and show us pages filled with messages that say we should no longer blame ourselves for the past.
The therapies to raise self-esteem and live better, suggest that we must learn from all our experiences, that all experience is beneficial.
All this is very good, a person can not self-flage by the mistakes of the past, must live the present to the fullest and take advantage of the experiences he has lived.
However, it is notorious that the idea of having a high self-esteem has been distorted with respect to the original and healthy idea and in that sense the phrase "cliché" used by men and women with fame in the media or ordinary people has been used. currents, simply aiming to become interesting.
How is it that someone so naturally says: "I do not regret anything I've done in my life." Can that be true? There is no one in the world who can say it validly because we are human beings and to a greater or lesser extent there will always be faults to be ashamed of.
Really a good person would not regret the bad things he has done? Unless he is a human being, egocentric, deluded and vain, there will always be things to repent of. If you have been deceived, humiliated, beaten, robbed, ever, what good person would not regret it?
It would be necessary to be very hard not to regret the bad actions of the past or simply someone who really does not regret the bad things he did is because really if he is a bad person.
But either because the person says that because they want to do the interesting or because he is a bad person, that phrase is like we said a "cliche" that has no truth for someone to say it.
The last straw is when the same thing is said adding some more words: "I do not regret anything I have done and I would do it again" That is already having a very professional hard face
One in an effort to grow in self-esteem and not tormented by the ghosts of the past can correctly say that from all experience you learn, but if you have hurt someone you will not overlook the faults that you have committed and very loose of bones, will be reinvented as if nothing.
People with values and principles first analyze their lives, identify their mistakes, repent of the bad things that were done, try to correct them as much as possible and continue with their life projects, but in no way hide their faults under the carpet While they seek progress, they are attentive to correcting what they have failed to do. They do not take it as a fault that torments them but if it is a pending account that they must discharge with responsibility as soon as possible in their conscience and then before the affected if possible.
It's about raising self-esteem, not torturing yourself by blaming yourself for the past, but in no way is it about psychologists teaching their patients to be cold, insensitive and fresh, semi-shameless types who say: "No, I do not regret anything I do. "
You really have to be an unscrupulous person and bad feelings to not regret the bad things that have been done in the past.
It is clear that if we have done good things or made decisions that do not affect anyone the word repent is the rest, we are obviously talking about repenting in the context of people who have done things that have affected other lives.
When one commits a bad action our superior consciousness, if it is that we have it, is responsible for reminding us that we should not be proud of it, that it was wrong and we try not to commit them again and remedy the damage within our possibilities as it should do anyone with heart and brain.
