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    Ben and his fiancée Jen went on a trip to Iceland that revealed a different side of Jen. She was no longer considerate, sensitive, and decisive as Ben knew her. As a result, Ben broke off their engagement at the end of the trip. Later, Ben learned that Jen had undergone surgery to remove a benign brain tumor, which explained her erratic behavior during the trip. The story illustrates how imperfect decisions are made without full information and emphasizes accepting our imperfections rather than dwelling on past mistakes or wishing for a redo.

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    Ben and his fiancée Jen went on a trip to Iceland that revealed a different side of Jen. She was no longer considerate, sensitive, and decisive as Ben knew her. As a result, Ben broke off their engagement at the end of the trip. Later, Ben learned that Jen had undergone surgery to remove a benign brain tumor, which explained her erratic behavior during the trip. The story illustrates how imperfect decisions are made without full information and emphasizes accepting our imperfections rather than dwelling on past mistakes or wishing for a redo.

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    Ben and his fiancée Jen went on a trip to Iceland that revealed a different side of Jen. She was no longer considerate, sensitive, and decisive as Ben knew her. As a result, Ben broke off their engagement at the end of the trip. Later, Ben learned that Jen had undergone surgery to remove a benign brain tumor, which explained her erratic behavior during the trip. The story illustrates how imperfect decisions are made without full information and emphasizes accepting our imperfections rather than dwelling on past mistakes or wishing for a redo.

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    Ben and his fiancée Jen went on a trip to Iceland that revealed a different side of Jen. She was no longer considerate, sensitive, and decisive as Ben knew her. As a result, Ben broke off their engagement at the end of the trip. Later, Ben learned that Jen had undergone surgery to remove a benign brain tumor, which explained her erratic behavior during the trip. The story illustrates how imperfect decisions are made without full information and emphasizes accepting our imperfections rather than dwelling on past mistakes or wishing for a redo.

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    Through Night & Day

    In a perfect world, we make perfect decisions. But we live in an imperfect world


    where we are none the wiser. We seldom know what’s going to happen until it
    happens. And even if we know enough, we don’t know what will exactly happen.

    That goes true in investment, in gambling, in sports.

    So too in love.

    Consider Ben (Paolo Contis) and his fiancée Jen (Alessandra de Rossi), of
    Through Night & Day, a 2018 film that has been trending on Netflix just now.
    Ben and Jen went on a life-altering trip to Iceland. During their trip, Ben felt as if
    he were with a different Jen. The kind of Jen that Ben had loved for 13 years was
    considerate, sensitive, and decisive. The kind of Jen that Ben discovered in
    Iceland was anything but considerate, sensitive, and decisive.

    “Itong trip natin, eye-opener siya for me. Parang ibang Jen iyong kasama ko, eh.”

    Then at the end of their trip, in Jen’s “favorite place,” during Jen’s “favorite time
    of the day,” Ben broke up with Jen.

    Already engaged with another woman, Ben learned later that Jen had undergone a
    surgery to remove a benign brain tumor. Then it dawned on Ben why Jen was
    behaving erratically while they were in Iceland: Jen was already sick.

    “Sorry I left you. I didn’t know you were sick.”

    “Bakit, kung alam mo, hindi ka makikipag-break sa akin, ganon?”

    “I could have been more patient. Maybe then we would have not broken up.”

    All of us have that had-I-known-I-should-have-been moment. It is the moment


    when we look back and realize that we wouldn’t have done what we’ve done had
    we been wiser. An employee resigns from work, but late in the day realizes he
    was just tired that all he needs is a one-week vacation. A student drops out of
    college, but realizes he just needs to shift course. A boyfriend breaks up with his
    girlfriend, but realizes all he needs is a time off.

    Yet what can we do? Unlike Microsoft Word where we can ctrl-A-delete what
    we’ve typed to get a clean slate, life has no undo button.

    I think the least we can do is to accept that we don’t live in a perfect world, that
    we are not perfect, and that we sometimes make imperfect decisions.

    And there’s no perfect relationship either. Even those who have long cultivated a
    seemingly perfect relationship have flaws.

    Since we’re imperfect, expect that at some point we will fail. But if we do fail, let
    us not relive that moment over and over, and wish we knew better. There’s no use
    saying, “Had I been wiser, I should have been…” It only sucks the life out of us.
    There’s no take-two in life.

    Instead, we must live with it. Learn from it. And love again.

    What matters is not what we were then, but what we are now.

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