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Lots of comments here disagreeing with the article and missing the point...sure, the seven-year rule can be taken to a ridiculous extreme, but I think many people suffer from dwelling too much on past mistakes and overcorrecting them. Seven years seems like a roughly reasonable period of time to learn from a serious mistake and then move on with life as an improved person.

The spirit of the article is saying that you should ultimately forgive yourself for making a mistake after a period of time (not always literally seven years).



>> Lots of comments here disagreeing with the article

That might be true in twenty-four hours, but only three comments were posted on this thread before yours.


Thanks for saying something. I’ve noticed other folks on other threads making similar comments to argue against opposition that doesn’t even exist apropos of nothing and it feels like a self-fulfilling straw man building prophecy that they’re willing into existence.


Perhaps it be better to consider 3.5 years as a half-life instead.

Every 42 months, half your life has or could be upturned.

That’s how long it takes to find yourself in new job, or for a new child to become a fully talking toddler with a personality, or a long-term relationship to solidify, or a national government to turn over, or a pandemic to initialize and then resolve. That all tracks.




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