Hindsight is 20/20 in all it’s bittersweetness

I used to be very angry at hindsight— the clarity that came with that 20/20 vision is amazing— yet also very cruel that to truly understand something to it’s fullest, you had to experience it and reflect on it only later.

I’d wonder why we had to experience pain, only to realize down the line how we could have prevented ourselves that pain or done something differently to produce a more favorable result.

What I’m realizing entering on this life cycle now, is that it wasn’t actually all for not. I just wasn’t zoomed out enough to understand or see that actually it would all come to play again.

Yes, I lost the life I was living, and many of the people and circumstances are different, but in no way was it all for not. And those were the lessons I needed to learn in order to come into my fullest possible version of present self.

Now knowing this, I have no doubt that the cycles will then continue— and for the first time I welcome them. It’s an opportunity to show myself what I’m made of.

Therein lies the real test— applying everything I’ve learned up until this point to my current reality— my now. All the things I’d wished I could’ve back to do differently are now those are the very things I can do differently in my current life.

We can only ever do the best we can with what we know and that life experience helped me know so much more for now than I did then. But it’s not just the life experience that’s gotten me to this point of understanding, it’s the lessons that I’ve learned through reflection.

Reflection has 100% been the key.