How do you rewind time and fix the mistakes you’ve made in your life?

I don’t know many people who would turn down the chance to travel through time and change mistakes that they made earlier, but the reality is that simply cannot happen.

Lots of philosophers and writers have considered the possibility of time travel and what would happen if we went back in time to fix our mistakes. Almost every one of them has determined that trying to repair mistakes we make before we make them almost always makes them worse. There is no way we can fairly change the past based on the ramifications it had in our present or future.

Instead, the only choice we have is to learn from our mistakes and try to make amends for the things that we have done wrong in the past.

Mistakes and regrets, though sometimes hard to live with, can only truly be fixed by liviing better because of them.  If you made a mistake and hurt someone you love years ago, you cannot go back and change that. However, you can resolve not to make the same mistake again and to try to treat people better.

The only time our past truly harms us is when we fail to learn from it and repeat the same errors over and over again. If you have learned from your mistakes, no matter how terrible they might be, then your redemption is in the future, not the past.