What can we do about Potholes?

​POTHOLES
 
I remember the time when
I let down a close friend,
when I should have done more,
when I should have been there.
 
The memory stays with me
like a pothole in the road,
that I drive over now and then.
It jogs my regret.
 
For George, the fact that
I wasn’t there or didn’t help
may not have been a big deal.
And then, it might have been.
 
He is no longer here, and so,
there’s nothing to say now.
But for me, the sadness remains
like a pothole in the road.

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​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1. Have you got a pothole on your road?
2. It's time to forgive yourself. It's time to see that the road has been mended.

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​Day 461 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

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