IF you don't make choices that you can actually live with short or long term then you won't

 I'm presently 72 years old and this is something I learned very young luckily. People make all sorts of choices but if they find they cannot live with these choices often they then either have to make other choices or they don't survive. There is only so much a person can take. So, if you overdo beyond a certain point then you are gone. Things often seem good but I have learned that "Things that seem too good to be true often are". In other words if someone promises you the moon they often cannot follow through on that promise and you are left holding the bag (whatever that means).

So, unless you make choices you can live with short or long term then you won't be alive (or you won't be sane). This is a given in life.