You might have heard of the saying: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions".

I'm coming to peace, as time passes, with the fact that I can never quite predict the consequences of my actions. There are times where I am really trying to do "good", where I spend a lot of energy on finding any flaws in the way I am trying to go about it, and yet it so often still leads to creating some amount of suffering.

I comfort myself by believing this applies to all of us, no matter how "holy" we are. None of us knows everything there is know to make an optimal decision, and, barring utopia, this will never change. There is always going to be a disconnect between what one wants/needs and what we think one wants/needs.

So how do we act if we believe that to be true? The way I see it: the way we've done it all along. We are all already acting optimally with respect to the state of mind, information and wisdom that we have.

Why did I waste your time telling you not to change anything? Because I want you to know that I think your behaviour is valid, and I hope you can derive comfort from it.

Is that even necessarily "good" for you? Probably not. I'm just doing what I think is best over here. :)