Find the value in everything. Everything that ever happened to you has been instrumental in defining the person you’ve become. All the good and bad, love and heartbreak, success and failure, brought you to where you are today. With the power of hindsight, it’s easy to look back and say, “I should have done that differently,” but we forget that it is those past choices — that we may regret now — which grant us insight to our past actions and offer wisdom with how best to move forward. If you went back and made a different choice, you would be a different person, with a different point of few, making different choices, and perhaps even making the same mistakes. 

Our experience in this life, as Vernon Law put it, “is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, and the lesson afterward.” We have to have the experiences to understand the wisdom lessons otherwise we will keep making the same mistakes. So find the value in all that you do, and know that everything you’ve done, is as is should be.