'Should have reached out' the world's top regret

She typed "hey" in the chat and deleted it. They had stopped talking after she missed his father's funeral three years ago. Next week, next month — two years went by. When Daniel Pink analyzed 26,000 regrets from 134 countries, the largest of his four categories was connection regret, and the sentence is always the same: if only I'd reached out. Awkwardness costs less than absence, always.