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Originally Posted by Iowanian
I have a lot of things I wish I’d have done differently with hindsight. I’m starting to believe more and more that things happen for a reason….and the choices I made then that I might change, change important things like..the family I have now. I’d not change that.
If I could go back and prevent some accidents and save people I love a lot of pain…I’d do it. But…I can look now on things that resulted from some of those events that were a net positive. I’d like to keep the cow from stomping my mom and I into the ground….but it made me so much more appreciative of my parents and they relaxed more after…..I’d like to keep my son from falling into a fire and save him that pain and those scars….but maybe that toughened him up for something in the future. I’d prevent a couple of car accidents and save myself and a friend some broken bones and arthritis. I’d go intervene before a neighbor kid drowned…..I’d invest in bitcoins and apple and google and Facebook early on…….id have tried harder to have bought a couple of farms…..
But the truth is, when I think about these things, I focus on the fact that while the outcomes are what they are….i did the right thing at the time with the information and situations I had….it doesn’t matter that I could have bought farms for $400/acre that now sell for $6500/acre….i didn’t have th cash to do it. I did the best I could at the time to stop events or help as much as I could at the time. Maybe…things turned out the way they’re supposed to.
At the risk of changing things unintentionally not knowing g the impact of changed outcomes….i guess I’ll take the scars and lessons as part of the process. I’m not changing much.
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Great reflection here, and a conclusion I normally settle on too. Like the previous poster who mentioned he could have bought Bitcoin at 10 cents. We all could have, and most of us would have sold at $10, or $100, or whatever. It's easy to look back and woulda coulda shoulda, but it's an exercise in futility.