You and your teenage self

Freebase Dali · 11-07-2013, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

My mistakes haven't been that serious but I still feel that's just part of life even if you end up regretting a costly mistake. I feel like it's better to go through circumstances and hardships on your own for that learning experience. Someone can give you advice to avoid it but you won't really understand why you need to avoid it unless you have it wearing on your shoulders heavily.

I don't disagree that learning from mistakes is valuable.
I just don't think it's more valuable than not having made them at all if you understand what's at stake.

Whether that's from foresight, trust, advice or anything else... if you can avoid a negative life-altering decision, you're generally better off not having altered your life irreversibly just to realize you don't enjoy it.
However, more often than not, we will tend to gamble on the infallibility of our own decisions and only realize this after it's too late.

If there is one thing I've learned in my life that has a lot of value to me, it's that the experience of people who have been through things before is a lot more valuable than the assumptions of those who haven't.
Unfortunately, this is often appreciated too late, if at all.