Regret and Guilt

I have been trying very hard to put into words how I feel about missed opportunities and how to amend the mistakes of the past, but words fail me.

But this weekend Garrison Keillor helped put it into perspective "Something in my little brain resists the idea of big profits, windfalls, bonanzas. Maybe the story about the tortoise and the hare made too big an impression. Maybe it's the fact that a writer like me has to make one sentence at a time. There are no great leaps in this field unless you lift whole passages from other people's work, and there is an awful price to be paid for that."

And that applied to investing is the only way that I have made money in the market. Small positions that turn into big positions when you take it as a whole.

It is aggravating to get the big picture so right, in not just investing, but not be able to get any traction when I set my mind to it. And that passage sums it up.

Everyone is given his portion and I am going to enjoy it.