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Arimitsu's avatar

What was best before isn't necessarily best now. What's best now won't necessarily be best later. And sometimes, what was best before comes back around to being best again.

What worries me is calling a decision good or bad based only on how it turned out. At the time, it really was the best choice available. Clinging too tightly to the past is risky — and so is reading the past through today's eyes.

Since all of this stays fluid, almost like a living thing, the real question isn't whether it was good or bad. It's what we do from here.

It was good before — so how about now? If it's not doing so well, what do we change? If it's working well enough, isn't changing the status quo just for its own sake the real risk? It comes down to: what do we do now?

Benedikt Kantus's avatar

That's a good addition: We won't change the past anyway. We only move forward from here onwards.

Joel Salinas's avatar

Excellent work! Thanks for sharing!