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Mike Hendricks

Mike at Night

Mike Hendricks recently retires as social science, criminal justice instructor at McCook Community College.

I shouldn't have done it, but I did

Friday, May 1, 2015

I'm sure we've all said this, some of us many times. Something seems like a good idea at the time but after we do it, we either regret it or wonder why we did it in the first place. People make lots of bad decisions in life. And every decision we make alters the course of our life. Whether we finish high school or not, whether we go to college, where we go to college, who we date, who we marry, how long we stay married if our marriage isn't good for us, what jobs we take, the list goes on and on. It's too bad we're not born with life maps that allow us to plot out each decision we make so we can see if our choices are taking us in a positive direction or a negative one. But we're not born with one of those and some people never think about creating one on their own. We typically find that these people don't have much good luck either. In fact, it seems they have a lot of bad luck because their life decisions weren't planned out or even thought out. They just acted on impulse or took the advice of someone else that got them where they are and they don't have a clue as to how to get out.

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