Yes again, I'm going to say that "hello everyone, it's been a while."
I've been really busy working these days but I feel happy. I learn new skills every single day that would be helpful for my future work.
Every decision that you make, you'll either face a consequence or if you're lucky, you picked the right choice. We are making decisions every single day. Many that we regretted and many that we felt happy for. For example: What would you like to eat today? How you should reply a text message?
There's a million decision that we made in our whole lifetime. What's most important is that you don't regret the choice that you picked. No one can force you to do what you don't want to and no one can stop you for doing what you really want to. Therefore, when you face the consequences, you can only learn and not blame anyone for not persuading you to pick another choice.
Frankly speaking, of course, it's not easy to always pick the "right" choice. But it isn't that bad picking the "wrong" choice.
There are many examples to it also but the easiest one is: Cheating in your class test will not be as serious as cheating in major exams. When you decided to cheat during your class test, you will face the music and you'll definitely learn from it and not cheat during your major exams. Once bitten, twice shy. Of course, that's for most of us. (No, I did not cheat in any test.)
When you made a "wrong" decision and start to regret about it, tell yourself that you don't have to. You made the decision, so be proud of yourself. Regretting wouldn't change the fact that it's past tense. Just learn and grow from it.
My personal encounter recently for making the wrong decision:
I suggested going to Swensen's with my friend that day. The lighting was really ultra bright! And then I felt very uncomfortable and rushed home. In the taxi, I started to feel nauseated. When I got home, I puke. It wasn't the food that caused the vomiting, it's the headache. It's called Migraine Headache.
Decision: To endure with the lighting, thinking that it's fine after a while.
Consequence: Vomiting and not being able to work the next day but spend on the medical fee.
Lesson learnt: To voice out when I feel unwell or when I need to.
I could go on and on with the examples but I'm pretty sure that you already have an idea on what I'm trying to say.
The conclusion is that, if you're regretting on a decision that you made, you don't have to. Life doesn't come with rules or instructions, you just have to learn from it and move on. We can't rewind time to find out what will happen when the other option is picked, right? (Although I really hope that we can do that, I know that it's impossible.)
You only have 24 hours in each day, a few minutes of unhappiness is fine but if you're to waste a few hours feeling unhappy, what are the benefits? You don't benefit from it at all. Hence, do something that makes you happy. Let the past remain in the past, you don't have to dig it out and apply salt to your wound. I'm not here to teach you what to do, but to advise on what's best for yourself.
Don't be afraid to make decisions cause you'll have plenty of them that's in the queue.