"If I could do it again, you know I'd do it the same." - Corey Smith, If I Could Do It Again
There's something so blissful about the idea of living a life full of no regrets. If given the chance, you wouldn't have the need or even the desire to go back and correct any mistakes.
You wouldn't do anything differently. You're 100% content with every second of how you've lived.
Like I said — blissful, right?
I find it way too easy to look back on a situation once it's all over, to look at the outcome in front of me, and then proceed to rack my mind with everything that I could have done differently. I try to come up with something that I could have done that would've left me any place but here.
And sometimes I even exhaust that idea. I try to make amends where amends just aren't necessary, and I try to change the outcome; even though I know that I can't change the past.
I think I often realize just how out of control of my life that I really am. And when I have that realization, I fight so hard to feel like I have control over something in my life — anything.
But if I could do it again, would I honestly really change anything?
I think both mindsets are dangerous, to an extent.
Constantly wishing you could go back and redo things isn't any way to live your life. Remind yourself that at one time you made those decisions based on what you believed to be the best for yourself in that moment. Trust yourself when it comes to making any sort of decision — remember that nobody wants the best for you more than you do.
But at the same time, you have to accept that you're only human, that you will make mistakes and you will fall short of your own expectations sometimes. And THAT'S OK!! Mistakes are natural.
Everything that's happened in your life — the good and the bad — has lead you to where you are now. And personally, I really wouldn't trade that for anything. Save yourself the trouble of the worry and the heartache and rest easy in learning to trust yourself.
So if I could do it again, would I do it the same? Probably not.
But do I regret where it brought me? Definitely not.
