Never berate your past self. Do not have regrets that you “could have done better”.
That is wrong, factually. Be kind to yourself.
Your past self *has always* made the best choices they could with the knowledge and circumstances they had at the time.
No one is ever choosing to make a second best option. Everyone is choosing to do what makes most sense right at that moment.
Never berate your past self for not being in better circumstances. Which is the ONLY way they might have done better.
Matt Wilcox
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2026-05-09 13:22:26 UTC
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