Looking back at over 50 years of decisions I’ve made and recognizing how those decisions have brought me to the place I am now, I find myself wanting to second-guess every decision I am currently faced with. Those past choices were all made based on the best available information at the time, and made with all good intentions, but they did not have the outcomes imagined. Not even close in many cases.
Hindsight makes it easy to say, well if only I had done insert-some-other-amazing-choice-here, things would be so much better now.
The reality is that there is no way to know what outcomes those other imagined choices, no matter how ideal they sound, would have resulted in. That thought took me a long time to understand. There is no way to know what other things would have happened had I made a different choice.
So it seems that the only option is to continue to decide based on whatever the circumstances are now and whatever the best information is at this point, and take one more step in whichever direction we pick in the face of uncertainty.
