And yet commitment might see them through that regret. It might even be said that commitment has meaning, as a concept, because, of all the ways that one might respond to the predicament that Kierkegaard describes (wherein regret follows any important decision), it is commitment to a course of action not only as you set out upon that course, but also retrospectively, in how you decide to feel about it (regardless of the doubts that might assail you) that most provides your life with a sense of integrity and wholeness and consistency, which in turn allows you to sustain yourself as a being who is not overly susceptible to a fragmented and insecure self, and thus to progress toward whatever goals you might have set, with whatever talents are particular to you as a person who is different from every person who has lived, insofar as each of us has a unique history and destiny, and is possessed of a singular psyche, or ego, and experiences reality alone, or, anyway, while confined within the apparatus of our own senses, so that we seem to ourselves to experience it alone.