I think in life, we as humans spend far too long looking forward rather than stepping back to take a look where we are going.
Did we take the right turn, it should we have stopped and checked our directions before driving on.
An analogy I use for me at present. I was at a cross road a few years back, took what I thought was the right road. First 5km seemed great, but then it was clear I was on a dodgy one way road and unable to turn back. I needed the job to pay the rent, so had no choice but to continue driving. Eventually that went on and on, before another car tailgated and road raged me for a hundred kms, eventually ramming me off the road, and into a tree at high speed.
The injuries are mostly healed from that, but I've had to walk all the way back to that intersection again (hundreds of kms) (almost there), and then pick the right road for me moving forwards.