Face Consequences

Sometimes decisions that we make in life are wrong. These should not be looked at as good or bad. Look at them as lessons in life. To truly move forward with life no matter what has been done if you stand up and face the consequences of these actions a step forward can be made. There are easy steps and hard steps.

There is a pull that seems to come from inside when situations arise. Simply put this is the flight or fight response. The difference people who can face consequences and those that cannot tends to be the person who does knows how to override that flight response. I am not saying that you should always do this. Certain dire situations may call for flight like if someone you love or your life is in danger.

Being straight forward, there is almost no situation that your life is actually in danger. Even when you are in trouble with the law you should just accept the consequences of what you have done and move forward. This will help you to move forward. You will more likely get hurt running from the authorities than just raising your hands and saying yes I did it.

We make mistakes as humans. When we learn the lesson from the mistake we move forward with life. I know I have made mistakes in my life. This one time I was really depressed because my ex-wife had just asked me to leave the house. About two weeks after that I went to a bar with my cousin and had two beers. Due to being tired from lack of sleep, depression and the two beers it appeared that I had more than that. The judge gave me a DUI.

From here I had two courses of action. One I could just collapse and say forget everything and lose my license. The second option was to stand up and move to the next step. I took classes and because I did this, although it cost me and my insurance a lot, it got taken off my record since it was my first offense. Shortly after this I started school, college, again for the third or fourth time.

I had made a decision to move forward with my life. From there I was able to move on and advance my life goals. Life has become better since then. I have a wife. Two step kids which I wish could be my blood. More recently we had a baby who is already 18 months. Time moves too quickly to keep running. My suggestion in this article is to stand up, straight backed and head up to move forward with your life no matter what has happened.

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