🍁Nine Ancient Obelisks

—It seems that Shiris favored me this time. —Asmidul sighed with relief, relieving his stress with a chocolate bar.

—Hmm... Do you regret anything from the past that you would like to change if time could be turned back?

- In my youth, I lived incognito in Ridel, a country to the northeast of us, across the sea. In the capital, Goldenglow, also known as the "City of Heroes," I met a very interesting guy - he had a sharp tongue, but his knowledge and intelligence helped create a positive impression of him. He was also very good at shooting from a crossbow, wrote beautiful stories, and was a master of intellectual games. Due to my youth and naivety, I kept trying to befriend him, and one day I succeeded. Since then, we spent entire days talking about various topics and indulging in various ways of spending time. Our favorite was "Ridelian hunting" - this was a team competition in which five participants from one team tried to defeat the same number of opponents while hunting game. Oh, how much time we spent on this!.. In general, this person was very close to me, and I even think that at some point I felt something like romantic feelings for him. But one day, we quarreled over a trivial matter, and our long friendship came to an end. In retrospect, I think that the reason for this was my lack of wisdom and a genuine desire to understand my friend's feelings.

- I tend to take responsibility for the things I am obliged to do by circumstances and the promises I have made, but I quickly lose interest in most of the rest, and as a result, I do not bring things to the result or level they deserve. Take away my titles, kingdom, and connections, and all that will remain is my "rich inner world" and a certain life experience, besides that - nothing substantial to hold on to. But take, for example, the author of the novel I mentioned earlier - this is a person with many talents and a strong spirit; wherever he goes, he will be the king of his own life. Therefore, if I had the opportunity to turn back time, I would try to develop the necessary qualities in myself while I was still young.

- My relationship with my grandmother was not easy. We often argued, could not find common ground in anything, and in general, it always seemed to me that she had a very difficult character - in my life, I wanted peace more than anything, but I could not achieve it. But then, when she was gone, I began to regret that I did not find the love and humility to close my eyes to the things that caused me dissatisfaction, annoyance, and anger. If you think about these matters more deeply, then in the life of every person, there are not so many people who genuinely care about him, so when they turn into memories, it is very tragic, and the presence of regrets leaves a gaping wound that can no longer be healed.

- I have no other regrets worth mentioning.