Three Simple Steps To Avoid Regret

How to avoid regret?

Well, I’m glad you asked.

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The first step

is to accept

that you did

the best you could

with what you had

at the time.

What you were told,

what you knew,

how you felt,

how your unique mind works:

at that moment,

it was all you had to go on

And you did with it what you could.

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The second step

is to realise

that you never

could have done

anything else anyway.

Everything in your life

up to that moment –

everybody you met,

every place you went,

every experience you had –

led you to that point

and made you choose

what you chose.

So to have done

anything other

than what you did,

you would’ve had to have lived

a completely different life

to begin with.

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The third step

is to acknowledge

all the good

in your life

right now.

Know that

it’s all a result

of everything that happened

in your past.

There are no

alternate realities

or parallel universes;

you have one timeline,

one path,

just one short life,

and the good things you have now

would not exist

without everything that came before.