Comments on: Is Hindsight Really Always 20/20?

By: Rekindling an old Friendship | Lolabees

Rekindling an old Friendship | Lolabees — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 22:09:03 +0000

[…] graduation, I chose to go live in Spain for a year. I knew living there was something I had to do. So the years passed, and I returned home, entered a career I ended up hating, and went on with […]

By: lolabees

lolabees — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:58:56 +0000

In reply to violetsandcardamom. Wow! Thank you so much, VAC! I'm so glad you've connected with what I've said! And thank you so much for the shout out! Am I breaking the rules if I nominate you right back? ;)

By: violetsandcardamom

violetsandcardamom — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:19:41 +0000

You have no idea how much I have been thinking about the same things that you have been posting about lately and so I am really enjoying what you have been writing. Also, I enjoy your blog very much so I nominated you for a Versatile Blogger Award! The details are on my blog. 🙂

By: lolabees

lolabees — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:40:38 +0000

It’s totally applicable, and actually makes me laugh because I too had so much to say about the whole thing. In fact, I was confusing myself at times while trying to write the post, and it took me forever to settle on a final draft. It ended up going in the direction it did– just like all of the other paths I’ve chosen to follow in life. So in hindsight, I think it unfolded the way it was supposed to 😉 Funny how it all works out and we eventually end up where we want to be.

Sounds like you could make a great post about the topic??? Thanks, Yoda 😉

By: lolabees

lolabees — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:34:48 +0000

In reply to martineden. I agree. Why must we even look back anyway????

By: dinkerson

dinkerson — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:25:17 +0000

The only thing that makes hindsight more clear, is the fact that we are living in the consequence of the past (not trying to sound like Yoda). I think it’s true, more often that not, that if we could go back, we would simply repeat the same mistakes; however, this time we would try to avoid the negative consequences and indulge in the positive ones.
It really seems to me like you’re right where you want to be, but feel like you may have missed out on some fun while getting there. I believe that if it hadn’t been for the time that you spent adhering to all the standards of perfect statistics then you wouldn’t be where you are today.
I too am right where I want to be in life. The path I chose was over at the other end of the spectrum. I’ll not go all into it, but the point is that if hindsight is 20/20 then we should be able to see that without every decision that we made up to this point, we wouldn’t be at the desirable places where we are today.

Is this at all applicable? I was really going somewhere with all of this, but it was getting way too lengthy. This is the whittled down edited version, but hopefully it is still coherent.

By: martineden

martineden — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:05:24 +0000

I think the whole hindsight thing is just a trick we use on ourselves. We use it to justify correct and incorrect decisions all the time when the question is not worth asking. We make decisions because we are human and because we are human we error in our decisions. That “flaw” is the best part of life.

By: lolabees

lolabees — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:55:13 +0000

In reply to Juliewray. Wow, Julie! We need to talk! I read through my journal from that year and found some pretty funny stuff. It was great to reminisce and would love to share it with you! I still wonder how many hours and tears it would have been before I found my hostel on that first day had it not been for you!

By: lolabees

lolabees — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 03:52:26 +0000

In reply to Ritu. Love it! Thanks, Ritu. Well said. It took me a long time to write this post because there were so many different directions I could have taken it. Your comment so eloquently captured yet another way of looking at it! Thanks!

By: Juliewray

Juliewray — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:52:30 +0000

I feel you, guapa. I am at a bit of a cross-roads with life, too, and am looking back on the whole thing (sobre todo mirando atras hacia España). Early mid-life crisis for me, maybe (er… okay, maybe not so early). :-p Wondering, myself, how I got here to where I am, and if this was really what I wanted all along, or just convinced myself I wanted. Hard to resist the call of the wild world out there for people like us. Regardless, me alegro que tomaste esa decision de pasar ese año en Madrid, y de hablar con una desconocida total (yo) en el avion para pedir consejos!