There is probably not one person alive who
couldn’t look back on their life and ponder situations that they may like to
change and do differently. We know that
it is not possible to do that but we could nevertheless look back with a hopeful
desire that if we knew then what we know now perhaps a different decision would
have been made.
However, let’s consider this for a
moment: We CAN’T change anything that
has happened in the past no matter how we might now feel about it - - - BUT
when we consider the things we knew then maybe that was the best decision to have
been make under the circumstances! Even
if that decision turned out to be a poor choice, we should not have regrets
over what happened.
Every single day we are making decisions that
effect our lives to various degrees, some will be minor and some will be
major. The point is that if we had a
conclusive and definite insight into the future perhaps our decisions would
have been different, or perhaps not!
Any
decision we make molds us into the character we have become. It doesn’t matter WHY we made a certain
decision the way we did. It only matters
that the decision was made and now we will be molded by the consequences of that
decision.
There may be times when we come to
recognize that a certain decision that we made is going to have undesired
consequences and we might be able to make a new decision that will nullify or
at least lessen the forth coming results.
It might be that we are unable to do anything about the outcome because
we have waited too long or have made additional decisions that have compounded
the issue to a point where nothing we might consider would make a difference.
We work with what we have available to us
at the time and then we respond to the outcome of those decisions. Yes, we may feel the sadness and regret some
of those decisions, but in truth, we can learn from the folly of the errors we
have made. We can use that information to
become a better person in the present and move forward to the future with the
desire to be more cautious in the decisions we have to make then.
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