Why, it's almost as if this place is some kind of discussion board or something, eh!

Okay, let me start over and ask another question which I think is more pertinent to what I actually want to know. heroic_decepticon, at the time you volunteered to have your toys given away to charity, did you still consider Transformers to be relevant/important to you?
Did you think to yourself:
1. "I don't really care about Transformers anymore, so I might as well give them to needy kids.", or
2. "Despite the fact that I really care about Transformers, I want to give them to needy kids." (kup's bread analogy), or
3. Something else?

Of course I've done stuff that I regret. And when it happens I later ask myself, "Gee, why did I do that?" But my curiosity becomes piqued when I sometimes hear about people doing regretful things that I've never experienced before (and would be unfathomable for me to do). If someone told me that they regret being overweight, then it's a form of regret that I'm all too familiar with. But if someone tells me that they regret parting with something precious to them, especially Transformers, then it's a more foreign concept to me and I'd like to know more. It's not the core concept of regret that I'm not familiar with, it's specific kinds of regret that I may not have personally experienced.