No turning back

I was reminiscing about my past a few days ago and I thought of certain situations I found myself in. I thought about all of the people I hurt and all of the people who’ve hurt me. I remembered the malicious words I’ve said and negative things I have done to inflict pain upon people.
Poignant memories of the past reminded me of all of the verbal, mental and sometimes even physical abuse imposed upon my life throughout the years. I used these recollections to justify my wrongdoings towards others.
I realized that I can’t justify my wrongs because of the wrongs of someone else. I cannot say it is right to do wrong because someone had done wrong towards me. I can only say that no matter what — a wrong is a wrong.
After I realized this, I found myself in regret. I regretted all of the injurious things that I had said and done to people.
I wanted to go back and change the hands of time and erase all of the negativity. Being more knowledgeable, I would have approached certain situations differently.
Today, I apprehend mentally that I thought could turn back the hands of time, but realistically I cannot. What’s done is done, there’s no turning back.
Besides if humans were able to turn back the hands of time and fix their prior mishaps, there would be much confusion. The hands of time would be reversed and our lives would have no time for development.
We would be living our lives in REWIND, and would PAUSE to find ourselves stuck in the same position and without any PLAY, we would STOP to see that we’ve made no progression.