Decisions
Pressure washing my deck the other week, I started thinking about the many decisions I've made in my life. I think it's fair to say that we are the sum of all the decisions that we make in life. Most of these decisions are fairly small, while others we recognize as important decisions when we make them. But even the small ones can result in monumental changes in our lives. Like the time I decided to dive into first base in attempt to beat a throw. It was a meaningless softball game for our terrible team but I ended up rupturing my ACL. That split second decision cost around $15K in surgery and limits my activities 11 years later.
So the big question becomes, have I made more good or bad decisions in my life? By nature, I believe that we remember most of the bad decisions in our life but only remember the very best of the good ones. It's our bad decisions that haunt us (okay, maybe they're just an annoyance) for the rest of our lives. I know we shouldn't dwell on the past since we can't change it, but it can be hard not to wonder what our lives would be like if we could change some of the decisions we've made.
If you had a chance to go back in time and change one decision, what would it be? Sell high? Pick a different career path? Ask out that one person? And based on what type of decision you'd like to change, what does that say about you and what you value in life?
I'm not going to say which decision I would choose, but I do wonder how different my life would be now...