There are countless forks on the winding road through life. Everyone occasionally looks back and wonders: ‘would life have been better had I taken another path?’ But regret never serves us. Every turn we’ve made resulted in the life that grew from that moment until this one. Who knows what might have happened had we chosen differently? Perhaps the choices we made allowed us to avoid more intense suffering or even catastrophe. It’s only when we let go of shoulda/woulda/coulda, that we can do the one thing that creates happiness…

Be present.