There should be a name for the sickly feeling you get when you don't watch television and you catch a glimpse of it when your in a public space.
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Regret, at the life one wasted.
If you disfigure a sapling, it is un-ignorable. When the tree grows mighty towards the sun, the scar is still there, but it is a miniscule part of the tree.
We're all growing towards the sun lad.