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5 Reasons Thinking About Going Back And Changing Things Doesn’t Help
You need a better direction in your life.
The more you get older, the more tempting it is to ask a certain question:
If you could go back and change a decision you’ve made what would it be?
We’ve made thousands of mistakes in the span of a year let alone a decade. Some of them are minor things while others could’ve altered our very way of life.
To go back in time with the knowledge and experience that we have now, it’s obvious that we’d wish for an opportunity like this to emerge. Or to spend time thinking about the possibility.
As comforting of a question that it is, it’s a terrible way of thinking when you think about it. Here is why.
1. It Means You Don’t Care About The Subsequent Lessons You’ve Learned
Every experience comes with all kinds of lessons if you’re willing to dig into it. A failure is never truly a failure unless you’ve gained nothing from it.
Whatever you happen to gain might not always be something incredibly useful, but it shapes who you become moving forward — if only slightly.
