You should always have a reason for doing something, and this should be valid regardless of the outcomes.
There should be a reason why you took that job, for example. You could climb the corporate ladder, become part of the management, and have a long career in that organization. You could also be fired suddenly and unceremoniously like many have. But these things should not matter. Whether you stay in that organization for six months or 20 years should be largely irrelevant. However long you stay, there should be a reason why you do.
The person you love may betray you, but they may also remain true to you for the longest time. Your friends could forget about you at some point, but you and they could also remain close for many years. The duration of your time with them shouldn’t matter, and the circumstances of your parting—should it come to this—should not be a big deal.
“Anyone that I’ve ever loved or been close to, I had a reason to,” you should be able to say, “and this remains so regardless of my parting ways with them.”
Many regrets in life aren’t from things ending per se; they come from the wrong things ending, thus reminding people that they sacrificed for nothing. There’s nothing as hard as knowing you spent time on the wrong things and people.
A consulting career ends, and you realize you were only ever doing it for the money. At least a writer influenced a few minds and touched some hearts, at least these YouTubers enriched people’s lives, and at least that doctor attended to a population that would really have been poorer without her dedication.
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