Life Lesson

Life is all about choices. I’m not talking about those random instances in life when you are robbed of your choices; I specifically mean your everyday, average life. If you find that you’re happy, cool; if you’re decidedly dissatisfied, well that sucks. I imagine that if you set aside some time to thoroughly reflect on your current state of dissatisfaction, you’ll more than likely find that you made a choice or a set of choices along the way that have put you exactly where you didn’t really wish to be. That is always a disheartening revelation. Trust me. I’ve so been there done that. If you are troubled by having to live with the consequences that were created by your own behavior; at some point you're going to have to accept that you've made the bed you are lying in and no amount of wishing it to be otherwise will make it so. If you consciously make a choice that creates a negative consequence you cannot label it a "mistake". It was a choice, plain and simple. You're just unhappy that it turned out the way it did. Sorry Charlie.

If the people whom you've scorned in the past do not wish to forgive you or have chosen to forget you...accept it. Move on with your life. And choose carefully to treat those whom you claim to care for with the utmost respect, henceforth. Consider it a lesson learned. When you repeatedly insinuate yourself into the lives of those you've wronged, uninvited, you're only making a pest of yourself AND reinforce that the decision they made to cut their ties with you was absolutely the right one.