Sometimes, I feel every decision I made just a mistake

United States
July 3, 2010 12:39pm CST
Don't you feel the same sometimes? That every single decision you made within your life, even your grown - up life was a mistake. You didn't make a right decision, and you were totally blind by the reality. I felt it currently, and I just want to take myself out from this imaginary world to face the reality world. Maybe I should listen to my parents and friends' advices from the first place, without going any further. Have you felt like that before?
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@kquiming (2997)
• Philippines
3 Jul 10
YES YES YES. In fact most of the time, I feel as if I don't really know what I want, what I really really want out of life. I'm not very good at obeying my parents, because at the back of mind I always think that, if I don't listen to myself (I'm 24 by the way), I might be making a bigger mistake, and be sorrier later on. But yeah sometimes I get into thinking that I might have made the righter decision if I listened. Anyway I'm doing some introspection right now... I'm not sure if I'm really doing the thing that I love the most right now. I'm not sure if I'm completely satisfied with where my life is going right now. I'm not saying I'm not happy, but I can't say I'm really happy either. I guess I still have to find out what I really really want ... I wonder how do I figure that out quickly and accurately. Cause I fear I might be running out of time...
@hanuma34 (819)
• India
4 Jul 10
It is quite natural for you to have the reactions. While parents are of previous generation, they are generally the best guides in life. They came through life undergoing all the turmoils themselves. Their advices are churned out of all the experiences, which you need not go through. Still you have to weigh them in the contemporary perspective. Whatever decision you make, the consequences have to be borne by you. Desires, actions, dependence on others surrounding you, circumstances - all are sometime transitory. Coming out of such situations is maturity. I am sure you will survive. lol.
3 Jul 10
I think lots of people feel this way. I made a decision yesterday about my job and already I am panicking about it. I think the reason why it feels better to take advice from people is that if it goes wrong at least there are other people we can blame for helping us to make that decision. Whereas if we make it on our own then we can only blame ourselves. It does help to get other peoples perspective on a situation but we are the only ones who can make a decision about our lives.
@hanuma34 (819)
• India
4 Jul 10
It helps to get others' advice to have more base for taking any decision. But certainly not to pass the blame. Everyone commits mitakes in decision making in life and reaps the consequences. One can get advices galore to the extent of getting confused. No one can be led by the nose to take a wrong decision. If they allow that to happen, the blame should still be his/her own for allowing the course.
• India
12 Aug 10
Hi, The art of making the right decision can only be acquired by making more decisions. It is the inherent contradictions and dilemma that make the decision making process an ordeal. Decisions can't be solely good, or, entirely bad. There are both good and bad consequences of each and every decision we make. Some decisions are bad for ourselves but good for others. You can't just label a decision as mistake. May be you were about to get something good in the end. May be you were meant to make decisions that way so that ultimately you may be benefited. Nobody has seen the future so we should stop making speculations. We often put one foot in our past and another in the future and then totally forget the present. This is how we spoil every single day. Read http://www.bukisa.com/articles/316860_contradictions-and-art-of-taking-the-right-decision where you will find some useful information on the art of making the right decision. Get out of your past and don't get into unnecessary conjecture about the future. You have got today. Live it as the best you can. Live life to its full. Restore your senses and take delight in every little thing life has to offer. Thanks. God bless you
• India
4 Jul 10
yup i did a lot, but every decision we have made is for our best in the future, after a lot of such experiences i came to know that patience is required for everything in this case just to know if or decision was wrong. we can't change our past and definitely don't know what the future holds for us who knows the decision you think was a mistake would come to a very great use one day. so just wait for the best to happen. and it will.
• China
6 Jul 10
I think everyone will regret for the decisions he made occasionally. However, each step you make, you have to be thoughtful and careful. I made my own decision when I faced to select my job. I never regret I chose my current job now because I know whatever I chose at that time where led to different ways of my life. If I chose another way, I might live my life totally different. Well, I can cut myself into two. So only one way once at a time, since you chose then don't regret. You never know this way you chose would lead you to somewhere full of surprises. Just enjoy every step you take. Don't bother youself too much, who knows what you made is a mistake?
• India
4 Jul 10
Well i have felt that also several times. But since most of my choices are made by myself i don't have much regrets as those are my choices which i made and not someone else. I love to face challenges and i am glad to face any of them. One thing we realize that is most of our ideas clash with the reality. They don't seem to work in real life. But once we make our own decisions we have to face the consequences and trust me just as day come after night similarly after bad times come good times.
@anne25penn (3305)
• Philippines
4 Jul 10
Its sad that when I look back now, it seems that all the decisions that I ever made was wrong. I always made sure that my decisions would be of benefit to my family and to others, and with that I lost or rather forgot about myself. When I made decisions, I should have included myself in my plans rather than leaving myself out and losing myself in the process.
@Suny0610 (48)
4 Jul 10
i've feel it some times before. and now i am calm. it is seems that every thing is down the drain when the consequence come. but in fact we can learn more when we look back. be mature and not complaint about the life. just do better. and make yourself happy.
@ydb777 (36)
• United States
3 Jul 10
I know exactly how you feel. Sometimes you just want to start all over again. Some people say that they wouldn't change a thing in their live, that they would do everything the same if given a chance. THAT'S A BUNCH OF CRAP! If given a chance I would do everything differently. One thing I can tell you is true, mistakes are great teachers. You do become better because of them.
@RobtheRock (2433)
• United States
4 Jul 10
The only time "every single decision" you make is a mistake, is if you are a career criminal who keeps committing crimes, getting caught, spending time in jail or prison, then come out and commit another crime. Most humans, as they get older, should learn from their mistakes. None of us is perfect and we are going to make mistakes. But we are also going to make correct decisions. I have made a lot of them and now I am old and waiting for my three years so I can get social security, since I don't have retirement moneys, military pay, stocks, savings, nor anything else, and I can't get welfare. All of this happened because I did it "my way" as Frank Sinatra sang. Yet, in spite of my mistakes, I'm still making it. I paid attention in college and use my education the best way I can. And I've learned to "think" about what people suggest I do, something I didn't do when I was younger.
• Hong Kong
4 Jul 10
Of course, you're not alone. There is not a perfect decision. In fact, by making a decision, you're being brave. There are many people who dare not make a clear decision and these are the cowards.
• India
4 Jul 10
yes dude, we say that experiences, this speaks a lot. if u do come across every problem every mistake this is a reason to it some may feel right some may not but this is a reason which makes every mistake right. so i feel nothing is wrong in the world..
• India
4 Jul 10
After your marriege everyone become busy with their works.......
• United States
4 Jul 10
I totally feel this sometimes. But I stop and realize that everything I've done, every decision I've made has brought me to where I am, who I've become. Maybe it's the wrong person, the wrong personality, but it's still me. Even if I followed my parents and friends' advices, I'd still end up being a human with the same name, same heart. You learn from your mistakes, you really do, even if it doesn't feel like it. You become stronger, better. So, maybe it's a bad decision you're making sometimes, but it's a good outcome no matter what, because it makes up you.
• Philippines
3 Jul 10
well i did..but i believe that we should not feel like that at all..always remember that the decision that we've come up to during that time is the collaboration of all the information that we have in ours hand at that moment..we didn't know any better..so don't bury yourself over it..yeah we could say we should have listened to our parent's and friend's advices but wouldn't you like to get something that you've autopilot yourself?
@cloud31 (5809)
3 Jul 10
Yes sometimes I feel the same way but since everyone committed mistakes in decision making I just try to think twice or even more before conclusion.I have been in same situation as you have just mentioned and that can keep me and help me the move in the future. Happy myLotting!
• United Arab Emirates
3 Jul 10
yes i do feel that every decision i took was a mistake. But if we think about our bad, past experiences it will only give us pain. We need to ga ahead in life. We cannot cry ove the spilt milk, but be careful in taking decisions in future. We need to treat the past as an experience and look ahead in life. Dont take advise for what is gone...you will only start thinking about it and it will give you pain. Just get that thing out of your mind the world is a huge place and you will geta lot of opportunities in future.