Useless Wishing

Do you ever wish you could go back in time and change something? Do something over again, so that maybe this time you wouldn’t make as many mistakes? I think at some point we all feel this way. We all wonder what things would be like if we hadn’t done this or that, or if we had taken that risk and stepped out of our comfort zone and done that thing we regret not doing.

But it’s useless wishing you could change things. You won’t be able to. There is no time machine. Life doesn’t give us do-overs. That only happens in fairy tales and science fiction. What’s done is done, and there’s no changing it.

But you can learn from it. You can make sure it doesn’t happen again. Next time life hands you an opportunity, you can take it. Next time you feel selfish or get upset, you can think of the future consequences of what you might say. They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Maybe it’s about time we learned from our mistakes the first time.