My premise is that all the decisions you have taken in your life were the best possible choices you could have made at that point in time.
Why I think all of them were best possible choices? Well... if it wasn't.. why would you have made it?
If your answer to that is 'I didn't know better' (everyone's mother just let out a sigh), I am still right in telling you that you made the best possible choice.
Take for example the worst thing you have done. If it was the worst because you did not realize the repercussions, what it means is that at that specific point in time it was the best choice. You had certain facts / opinions / views available to you at the point you made that decision. Based on that knowledge you made the choice. That idea is why I stopped regretting the past. Instead I try to learn from it.
After the act is done (as the guy to the left illustrates), it's usually hard to go back and correct it. If that's not a possibility, what can you do from now on. Is there something that can be done to prevent the bad decision from happening again, or to make the bad .. not so bad. Would it help to have talked to other people, to ask specific questions, etc. This is the analytical part. It is important to never forget the bad decisions. If those are forgotten then we cannot understand what factors went into the decision that we wish we had done differently.
It is time to be cool and not regret. As cool as ... Ice!
Why I think all of them were best possible choices? Well... if it wasn't.. why would you have made it?
If your answer to that is 'I didn't know better' (everyone's mother just let out a sigh), I am still right in telling you that you made the best possible choice.
Take for example the worst thing you have done. If it was the worst because you did not realize the repercussions, what it means is that at that specific point in time it was the best choice. You had certain facts / opinions / views available to you at the point you made that decision. Based on that knowledge you made the choice. That idea is why I stopped regretting the past. Instead I try to learn from it.After the act is done (as the guy to the left illustrates), it's usually hard to go back and correct it. If that's not a possibility, what can you do from now on. Is there something that can be done to prevent the bad decision from happening again, or to make the bad .. not so bad. Would it help to have talked to other people, to ask specific questions, etc. This is the analytical part. It is important to never forget the bad decisions. If those are forgotten then we cannot understand what factors went into the decision that we wish we had done differently.
It is time to be cool and not regret. As cool as ... Ice!
