Montaigne's "On Repentance" and "That to Study Philosophy is to Learn How to Die"

Right now I am not really sure whether I liked these readings or not. Montaigne had a lot of interesting things to say, but he put it in a way that made it very difficult to read. In the reading "On Repentance" he basically said that we should not regret anything we do because it is part of our nature to do it, and because those experiences build us up to who we are today. Instead of just dwelling on our mistakes we should just look on them with indifference. Another cool thing that we learned during the lecture on this reading is that everything works according to nature by cause then effect. The thing is that in our experiences we experience the effect first and then identify the cause. In the second reading Montaigne was saying that rather than trying to exclude death from our lives we should actually embrace it and try to think about it every day. Death is also the one thing that no one else can do for you. So in conclusion I have to say that these readings gave me a very different way of thinking about these kinds of things.