Which has the MOST BITTER taste, "What could have been", "What will never be" or "What you will never know"?

Answer 1

I avoid bitter, having a sweet tooth, but "What you will never know" comes closest. Informed by the ignorance of the past I've always been aggravatingly aware of my own contemporary ignorances - which must entail both follies and lack of awareness so they diminish life. What could have been might have been sweet and might have turned sour, but it's behind me. I'll never know what will never be, so whilst it's interesting to conjecture, it's only worthwhile to the extent that it leads to something being, and then it falls out of the "never be" category, doesn't it. So all's well or as well as it's going to be for now anyway.

Answer 2

Let me do this in backwards order...."What I will never know" won't be a problem.....it will never be in my mind......

"What will never be".....never could exist....so again, not much of a problem...

BUT "What COULD have been".....now there's the rub....all those ''what ifs"....."if onlys"....."I should haves".....it all leaves so much room for bitterness........However...it doesn't have to leave a bitter taste.....we can work on living "in the moment"...doing what we can to make things be as we want them to be....being all we can.....reducing our regrets....because we did actually "do all we could".....in reality it evolves into a state where there are no "could have beens"......because we made the most of our opportunities and didn't let them slip through our fingers.....each choice we make takes us down a new path....a path that closes the other possible paths.....and when we live to our fullest and take responsibility for making the best choices we can make...then.....there is no need for regret.....for we know in our heart that it "Could not have been any other way"......and there is a sweetness in this that will dispel even the most bitter of tastes........

Answer 3

Unfairness and mean just for the sake of being mean... leaves the most bitter taste in my mouth.

So I guess that could fall under what I will never know, because I will never know why people are that way.

Answer 4

I guess that to me, all of the above, does not apply to me.
What could have been,I have done, I have a Husband that has been my companion through thick and thin for the last forty nine, years, and a Family who I adore.
What will never be, I have done during my Lifetime here on Earth, I married Young, and did not finish my education, but when my Kids were of School age, I got my GED, and enrolled in College, got my Associate's, Thanks to our Lord.
What I will never know, I know a lot to satisfy my Curiosity, and I have had a good Life, no regrets, on my Part. So, I guess I do not have a bitter taste.
Thanks for your question.

Answer 5

"You can't change the past" can be a tool to keep from bitterness about "what could have been." And "what you will never know" is usually small compared to having one's expectations for the future crushed.

Hence I think "What will never be" is the bitterest. Projections about the future are the most limiting to the present. Getting into a mindset where one dwells on "can't" or impossibilities creates negativity that crushes potential and spirit.

When one is blind to their potential, they become dead inside. There are always new possibilities to replace regrets with happier and even more valuable circumstances than the example of an unfulfilled past.

Answer 6

Actually, it is a mixture of all three. The bitterness of what could have been and now will never be and the bitterness of what I shall never know as a result.

Answer 7

The grieving lover watches her beloved waste away and enter death, the place she cannot yet go. The divide between them seems to shatter her very world and through her tears she dreams of what will never be.

Ignorance is bliss and what could have been may yet be, but what can never be...brings the most bitter tears.

Answer 8

What could have been : didn't happen for a reason and I see that now since I have something better,
What will never be : will never be because it does not fit the purpose in my life..
'What you will never know:well what I don't know wont hurt me..wisdom always shows up when I need it in my life..it is never too early but never too late either...
I guess I refuse to eat the lemon ...I'd rather take life with a little sugar....

Answer 9

What could have been. I have no expectation for what I'll never know, and I seem to be able, so far anyway, to shrug off what will never be. I guess a possible future is less real to me than a possible past. It makes no sense, but there it is.

Answer 10

"What you will never know":
Humans fear the unknown. "what could have been" implies that you can predict the effects of different causes in a past situation, and therefore, are knowledgeable. "What will never be" makes it sound as if you can effectively predict the future and have a knowledge of what is to come. However, "What you will never know" hints an ignorance and the inability to reach this unknown piece of knowledge.