Is there a use for hypotheticals (ifs, should, would, could haves), or do they only pull the mind off the present moment?

I frequently catch myself in moments of tangential thinking with things like, "I should have said that, I would be somewhere else if I did that, things would be better if XYZ."

Since they pull the mind out of the present, where is the value in hypothetical questions and situations?

Maybe all hypotheticals have some value or an inherent lesson? Or maybe none of them do, since they're dealing with situations that aren't real to begin with?

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