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More importantly, I say live without regrets. You'll never make the right choices 100% of the time, and the mistakes you think you made are as much a part of wh
by jrwoodruff 16y ago
More importantly, I say live without regrets. You'll never make the right choices 100% of the time, and the mistakes you think you made are as much a part of who you are now as the things you got right. You never really know what the outcome would have been had you chosen the opposite: Maybe you wouldn't have had the social skills to get that job, maybe you wouldn't have met that friend of a friend of your new popular friend who introduced you to your future wife, etc.
Reflection and maturity is healthy, but harboring regrets and second-guessing past decisions just isn't worth it.
- ryanwaggoner 16y agoI agree with the sentiment of not getting caught up second-guessing yourself, but I think that the line of reasoning you're espousing destroys any hope of learning from past mistakes, and by extension, diminishes the importance of carefully considering future decisions. If I don't look back and learn from my mistakes because I never know what would have happened in the other case, why bother putting any thought into my current decisions? Very shortly they'll be in the past and I can avoid regretting them as well :) I wrote a post about this where I hopefully explain in a little better. Just don't get caught up on the word "regret": http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/08/why-im-learning-to-love-regret/ http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/08/why-im-learning-to-love-regr...