We look back on things we clearly messed up. We were too preoccupied. We were too harsh. We were wrong. We didn't know.
And because we messed up, we feel guilty. We regret what could have been. We're mad at ourselves. We wallow in pity or shame.
Dr. Edith Eger, the Holocaust survivor, cut through all this with her graceful bluntness. "I'll give you a sentence," she said. "If I knew then, what I know now, I would have done things differently."
That is the end of that, she said.
So it must be for us. Give yourself the gift of the present moment, Marcus Aurelius wrote in Meditations (our favorite translation here). Seize this second chance. Don't waste it on guilt because guilt is, as Dr. Eger said, about the past—and the past is one thing we cannot change.
All we can do is do better now. We can take the feeling we have now—be it regret or shame or the heavy price of consequences—and use it as evidence as to why we must make the right choice today. All we can do is do things differently going forward.
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