The mistakes we make

Through out human history we as a race have made all to many mistakes. Even if a person does not believe in sinful depravity, you can not realistically look at yourself in the mirror and wish you hadnt done something, should have done something, or maybe feel guilty for one of those things you did do.
I take a snapshot of teenagers. They think they know so much and are adults able to make decisions for themselves. They wont realize until later the damage it will ultimately do to a person. We a teen has sex and finds out they are pregnant, it is then that they will regret the decision. Or if a teen has sex with multiple partners and finds out they have an STD, they never thought it would happen to them. They never thought to ask their partner where they have been and who they have done. I look at my own past and wonder why I let so many thing taint my image of what is true.
I know a lot of people will argue and say that there isnt an ultimate truth. I find that hard to believe when we live in a world that has an reaction to every action. Morality aside and not saying what is consequence and what is reward, we must be aware that our decisions have outcomes that we may or may not be prepared for. Even as an 'adult' we think that certain decisions will be good for us, only to find later that we in fact made a mistake. Everyone gets mad, and sometimes what we do when we are mad is a really good example of this. The decision to burn a bridge even if you didnt realize it. The decision to cheat on your spouse even if you thought the other would never find out. All these decisions, whether you think them to be a positive or a negative decision, are decisions meant to have reactions. I mean if you didnt want to burn that bridge you would have thought your anger through, focused it elsewhere, walked away. If you didnt really want your significant other to find out, you wouldnt have cheated on him or her. Then, there would have been nothing to find out.
Yet these are examples with answers, cases that we can place in a vacuum tube and define the variables. Not everything is so precise. The teen who has sex doesnt have any notion of what they want of the sex other than the pure enjoyment or for the pure curiousity. Oh, but how it will change them forever. For some of them and the smaller percentage, because teens are having sex, they will get pregnant or get an std. For some of them it will not affect them until later in life realizing that doing so wasnt the best decision. For some, it may be no more than the pain that they will feel when that relationship doesnt pan out. And dare I say, for very few, they will never realize the re-action of that action, ever living the way they think they ought to.
As disconnected as I have tried to be I am sure anyone can see my own views laced in this post. That is just fine, because I dont really believe that anyone should agree with me or not. Still, I wonder how much of the pains in this world are based not upon accidents and chance, but by the falling of the dominos. One decisions leads to another, which naturally leads to another. Than, in any case of the teen, the adult, or the elder they will find themselves at a point in their lives just curious about how life might of turned out. But, I am inclined to believe that some of our decisions are hurtful. These hurtful decisions will sooner or later lead us to a place of sorrow and conviction wondering just how deep of water we have gotten ourselves into.
Casting Crowns has a song called be careful little eyes what you see. I would advise this to us all. Because maybe if we thought through what we did, maybe if our decisions were thought through, I dont know, maybe this world would be a bit of a better place.