Direct Impact

You claim you "knew better," yet you also admit you were "young and dumb." But if you truly were young and dumb, then maybe you didn't really know better, right? And that's okay. Because now you do. We all learn from our past experiences to better shape our future ones. And it sounds to me like you did that. Sometimes the only way for us to learn is through firsthand experience. Lessons hit harder when they impact us directly.