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by 11thEarlOfMar 1643 days ago
Be careful with this one. If you could transport yourself back in time to each of the key decisions you made as a younger you, you would likely realize that in most cases, you made the best decision you could with the information and resources you had at the time.

Learn from it, and then apply what you can for the benefit of older you. Regret is pernicious.

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I don’t think I would do anything different just based on all the happy things that came about doing them this way.

But you can still mourn all the things you didn’t do because of the choices you made.

Same way that I’m sad I cannot drink both the banana and apple shake at the same time.

Yeah, I don't buy it either. But you said it more eloquently than what I could.