Thinking about my peak-cringe moment makes me wonder: if I could go back and relive that moment,…

Monday, September 14th, 2015

Thinking about my peak-cringe moment makes me wonder: if I could go back and relive that moment, handle it differently, would I do it? Knowing that I’d be reshuffling the deck, putting all the subsequent events in my life – good and bad – at risk?

Sometimes (most of the time) when I’m giving unsolicited advice to someone younger than me, telling them to go for it, take the risk, I’m really talking to 20-year-old me. But 20-year-old me never listens.

The good things that happened later in my life: Would I have taken the risks that led to those things if I didn’t have the sense of regret that took hold in those 10 seconds and stayed with me ever since?

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Thinking about my peak-cringe moment, it made me wonder: if I could live that moment again and make…

Monday, September 14th, 2015

Thinking about my peak-cringe moment, it made me wonder: if I could live that moment again and make a different choice than the one I actually made, would I do it? I’ve often thought about that. Sometimes when I give unsolicited advice to people younger than me it’s really 20-year-old me I’m talking to.

Twenty-year-old me never takes the advice, though. He does the same thing every time.

But if I could do it over, would I? All the good things in my life that happened later – would I put those things at risk? Reshuffle the deck and deal myself a new hand, just to be able to go back and fix that one thing?

I wish I’d handled it differently. But maybe my regret at the choice I did make is part of what gave me the courage to make different, riskier choices later on, with all the good things that resulted.

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