"It's easy to retroactively give a positive interpretation to any life choice"
It's not only easy, the brain is probably very eager to do this all the time, so that we'll feel the last 5,10,20,50 years of our life wasn't a complete waste of time
I posit that people who can't convince themselves that most of their life decisions, no matter how arbitrary, turned out good in the end are depressed.
It's not only easy, the brain is probably very eager to do this all the time, so that we'll feel the last 5,10,20,50 years of our life wasn't a complete waste of time