As I look back at my life I see much that I wish I could go back and change. As we get older comes this annoying benefit of hindsight. Unfortunately, we usually find our hindsight is really of little or no benefit to us, at our advanced age the probability of having to make similar decisions is doubtful. For instance, there are important things I should have said to my friends, family, and those around me, things which seemed of so much less importance than the so much more "important" trivial bullshit I was involved in. There are also many things and people I should have done before the aches and pains of misspent youth caught up to me. These are choices made and consequences which followed, consequences not necessarily my own; ripples in the communal pond interacting with all the other ripples from those folks around me, narrowing my six degrees of separation and multiplying unintended consequences of actions which affected other people's lives, including my own.
To read more of this muddy post, please follow this link to my blog, "The Path": Choices and Consequences