In real life, there’s no “undo” button. When you do something, it’s done, final, irrevocable. There’s no turning back.

You can't un-do life!

There’s no simple keyboard shortcut in life to make things return back to the way they are. So you just have to make the your choices in life boldly, and have the courage to live with them.

It became all so clear to me when yesterday I discovered a scratch on my new Macbook’s protective casing. The rubberized plastic casing was scratched in a small location and there was an imperfection on my perfect Macbook cover.

I touched the scratch and ran my fingers over it, and to my chagrin more of the rubber layer peeled off. The de-rubberized patch grew bigger.

I had to make a decision there and then. I thought that it would look better if I scratched off all the rubber and had the casing look uniform once again. Without thinking, I used my fingers to rub against the rubber layer, in hopes that it would all get rubbed off eventually.

I kept rubbing, and the bare patch started to get larger and larger.

I rubbed and rubbed with my fingers until they became sore and painful. And I could go on no further. And I was stuck with a big, messy, ugly hole.

The big, ugly patch on my casing.

I wished that I could just press that big reset button and have things go back to they way they were just a while ago but no such button was in sight.

I had every right to be upset with making such an ‘intelligent’ decision. The cover was ruined, ugly; my fingers were sore and blistering. It all looked like a mess.

But when you really think about it, there’s just no good reason to get upset – I had the freedom to make my own decisions, and to make further decisions to make it all better. I had the power of decision. I could choose. Yes I made one wrong choice now, but the fact is that I have the power of decision to change my life for the better. I made my choice, and it is my choice again to accept it gracefully and live with it or to moan, complain and feel miserable about it. I chose the empowering former.

Life calls us to make decisions all the time like one big role-playing game. And I like to think that it’s just that – it’s largely a game based on the decisions we make. As with any game, we make bad choices and good choices, but what’s important is looking at the big picture and enjoying the game. There’s no going back, or taking back your moves, but that doesn’t mean that you have to enjoy your game any less.

Even though there’s no ‘undo’ button.