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CotW #66: Write about the biggest lesson life has taught you.
The most eloquent, elegant, entertaining entry, ascertained by Prose, earns $100 and stays atop the Spotlight shelf for 24 consecutive hours. Feel free to invite friends, distant family, even strange acquaintances to play this challenge with you anonymously. Please use #ProseChallenge #itslit for sharing online.
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Regrets

No matter what you choose in those times of tough decisions, no matter how many choices you have to make in your life, it is inevitable that you will make a wrong one.

What have I learned?

That it's alright, that it's what makes us all "imperfect". That wrong decisions are what open our eyes to the right ones. That one wrong decision doesn't shape the rest of your day, your month, your life. That your wrong decision doesn't have to be someone else's because you have the power to teach, to help and to guide.  That despite it feeling like "the end of the world", it isn't going to be the last time. But that you don't have to live your life regretting everything you did, or didn't do. That moving on isn't disrespectful or rude, but healthy. That the only way you can right those wrongs is get up to do something. Not sit there wallowing in your regrets. 

What have you done that you regret? Or is it something you should've done but didn't? Ask yourself if it can be fixed, is there anything you can do now that will help you? If the answer is "no", you have to craft a big flashing neon sign in your mind that reads "MOVE ON". Maybe you'll want to sit in bed and pull the covers over you head until everyone forgets about you and all the sounds of the world drown away. But your decisions can do good. In fact, just one word out of your mouth, one thought in your head and one step that you take can make another person's day, and save a life.

But what can you do if you're hiding? 

Regrets are impossible to avoid, but they are possible to forget or simply place in the back of your mind. Be someone's right decision and to do so, you have to first forgive yourself.

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