They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not obey them. For flattery is on their lips, but their heart is set on their gain.
In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, someone who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, “The city has fallen.”
~Ezekiel 33:21
I would say that it's a combination of the two. If I made a mistake in the past, I don't want to make the same mistake again. If I did something that could benefit the future, then I hope that that task has come to fruition.
Then I said, Ah, she is worn out with adulteries, but they carry on their sexual acts with her.
~Ezekiel 23:43
Yes, I have loved someone that didn't love me back. Maybe I still love them, I just can't bring myself to say it until they do. That's how I feel I can protect myself from being hurt because all I feel is angry and sad altogether when I can't tell that someone doesn't care for me the same way I do.