It occurred to me recently that I have never regretted a decision I have made with Freedom. As often happens in life, you sometime need to make choices without knowing much about how things will turn out as a result. This can be scary, and often leads to a lot of second-guessing and what-ifs... things which humans are naturally drawn towards doing, but unfortunately don't advance us in any way, as we can't change the past.
The funny thing is though, with Freedom I have not done any of this. Even weeks and months after many of the decisions I have made, I find my mind wandering into that old antipattern of what-if... before realizing that yes, I DID make the correct decision, and that there was absolutely nothing else I could have done to make the situation better. Every time I asked myself 'what does Freedom want to do?' before making a choice, I was usually very satisfied with the result, but at the very least was always content.
This has, in many ways, allowed me to redirect a lot of that focus on the past into the future. The time I would have spent worrying about past decisions is now focused on what I can do in the future to secure more happiness. While my actual thought process hasn't changed much, my overall life satisfaction has definitely improved... and I only have Freedom to thank for that.
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