Throughout our lives, we are faced with choices: choices in schools, in careers, in personal and community life. Sometimes the decision is clear, and we can look ahead optimistically and say, “I hope that everything will work out.” At other times, the decision is not clear, and we find ourselves repeating, “I wish I knew what to do. I wish I had the answer.” We go to others for advice, asking those around us, “What would you do if you were in my position?” and we ask ourselves, “What if I did this or I did that?”
Eventually we make the choice. Some are good choices and some are bad choices. Some choices bring happiness and satisfaction while others bring regrets:”I wish I hadn’t done that.” ” If I had known better, I would never have done that.”
Living with a good choice is easy, but living with a bad choice can be difficult. Yet as we evaluate ourselves and our actions, each day each of us has the opportunity to look forward or to look backward, to be optimistic or to be pessimistic.