Yesterday morning at about 11:40am, I made a grave error in judgement and put lives, cyclist lives, racers, in harms way. Luckily I quickly realized my error and corrected it but it could have been bad. Very bad. The look of disgust on the police officer’s face that confronted me afterwards said it all. He never said a word, he didn’t have to, his look said it all. I I keep replaying just how bad this could have been over and over in my head. I am very distraught over it. People this stupid shouldn’t be allowed to live.
Eric, no one’s life is or ever would be judged this way. We all make mistakes, and the fact you realised, think about it and worry is all the more reason that you are a good person, with every reason to live.
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Making mistakes is a typical human trait.
Nobody is ever going to go through life without it.
Adapting, reacting, correcting and learning from those mistakes is what matters and it seems it’s what you’ve done.
Take care.
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99.9% of people wouldnt have given this a 2nd thought. We need more people in the world like you who acknowledge their mistakes and care enough to fix them AND feel bad about it.
Everyone makes mistakes. Most people neither acknowledge them or learn from them. You Sir @Eric are a fine human for doing both.
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Oh Sir Eric.
I hope you are feeling better by now. Even the brightest, sharpest minds in the world are human, and humans make mistakes. By the way you are sharing this, it seems you will have the hardest time of anyone forgiving yourself. Good people recognize their mistakes and learn from them, and when possible then help others also learn from them.
“To err is human, to forgive, divine.” Alexander Pope
Please look outside, see the beauty out there reflected in yourself. 
The future is now. The past has, well, passed.
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If everybody applied your criterion to themselves, there would be nobody left on earth.
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