Sometimes we think about what we would like to change in our past.

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We have regrets or second thoughts about what we did.

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We think things might be better if we did something different.

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Yet our perspective is so limited.

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We don't really see the implications of our actions far into the future.

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What seemed like a bad choice twenty years ago, looks like a good decision ten years ago.

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Today that choice may seem bad again, or even worse.

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In ten years from today it may seem like a great decision.

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In fifty years it might even look like the perfect choice.

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Had we made a different choice and taken a different path, we would have ended up in a totally different place.

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What that place would look like today could be anyone's guess.

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We might be the person we were madly in love with, or we could be in a horrible relationship.

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We could be more wealthy that we could imagine, or we could be destitute.

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We may be as healthy as ever, or we may have a fatal disease.

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Even if we were much wealthier today because we chose a different path, we might be any happier.

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Perhaps the person we were once so in love with ends up leaving us for someone else.

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There are so many variables involved in life that it is impossible to tell where we would be today if we even made just one different decision years ago.

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So why do we fret over it so much?

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Why do we waste so much time thinking about how things could be different?

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Perhaps it is simply because we have such a hard time seeing the perfection in our lives today.

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As our perspective is so narrow, it makes it hard to envision the bigger picture.

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After all, we only on this planet for a mere century, usually less.

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In contrast to the age of the universe, or even the age of this planet, it is less than a single atom in an entire ocean.

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Like a pointillist painting where there are so many little dots, we have to step back to see the picture clearly.

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Only when we step back from our daily life, do things even begin to come into focus.

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And in the grand scheme of things, how can we tell if we have made the right decisions or not?

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Perhaps that is the wrong question to ask.

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Maybe it is more about seeing how everything that we have done is actually perfect the way it happened.

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Whether we can see it or not.

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For how could we have done any different than we did?

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We live our lives as best we can each moment.

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Just because we would live differently today than we would have years ago, does not mean we could have any differently all those years ago.

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If everything is here to serve us, perhaps all those apparently wrong decisions were actually the right ones?

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Maybe we have lived our lives in the exact perfect way we did?

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So what regrets can you let go of today?

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How can you learn to see your life as the perfect tapestry it is?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant