After a few recent posts giving advice I though I would start one about hindsight.

I know I have been given absolutely piles of conflicting advice. As all of us do I have picked and chosen what advice I wanted to take. Sure I took the wrong advice sometimes, and often the people that gave me the right advice said "I told you so" or "welcome to the real world", which was not in the least helpful. The saying goes Karma's a B****, But is reckon Hindsight is just as bad.

I am a believer in choosing the advice one wants to take and learning from their mistakes. Sometimes I give advice and the intended recipient chooses not to take it. While it is frustrating, by not taking my advice I can see that that person has chosen other advice and may very well learn from their mistakes. If they don't learn from their mistakes then it is their life that will be affected, not mine.

Looking back over my life, in Hindsight I can see many regrets, and some of them I still feel guilty about, but it was the decision I made at the time, and I own it, but it can be hard to look back at. Without having made those decisions I would not be where I am today, but in hindsight I probably wouldn't have made those decisions if I had known or listened to the other advice.

As they say, 'You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink'