What Might Have Happened?

"If only I'd done X..."

But I didn't.

I chose to do what I did in order to get here.

I chose to leave New York two years ago, and every time I've gone back I haven't been there while I was gone (because I was somewhere else.) I chose to leave San Francisco in February. These are the facts, nothing can change that, because the past has been written -- it's immutable. I can't time travel back and manipulate what my past-self should have done, time travel doesn't work that way.

I can reach back into the past and learn from what happened. I can reach back and embrace it, because only by embracing what I choose can I feel okay with how I got here.

Spending one moment more than necessary worrying about what I should have done yesterday is a moment that I'm not spending now taking concrete actions that are necessary in order to achieve what I need now.

What might have happened never happened.

So, I untether.