Asking a fella what wrongs in their life they righted is a list too long to print for pretty much every human being, isn’t it? (If they are honest about it). Of course, that all depends on their past perspective, and their current one. Here's my perspective...
Of course, if you stopped driving drunk, or paid back someone you stole from, or anything like that, then you have REALLY righted a wrong. I don’t have any of those (that I will admit in public) though, so this is my story, and I am sticking to it.
I was once a Democrat then switched to Republican. Now, I am simply "American". If the Libertarians and "Tea baggers" weren’t such a joke, I might even call myself a one of them. But I don’t. I have voted with all of them at one time. So, was I “wrong” before, and now I have “righted” it (several times)? Some would say yes, some would say no. Perspective, right? See the point?
Looking back at choices we have made in our lives, we can all say that we have “righted wrongs”. Maybe you can say you used to be fat and unhealthy, but now you are thin and healthy. But later you become unhappy eating "cardboard" food. Maybe you can say you found religion and changed your entire perspective. But later you realize your entire perspective is supplied to you by a "false prophet". Whatever change you made, if you currently view that choice as a good one for you, you can say you “righted a wrong”. Later, though, you may not see it that way.
I believe, if you are happy with your decisions, good for you. I do not personally view those choices in life as "righting wrongs". I think that most of my choices were right for me at the time, and as I evolved as a human being, as the circumstances of my life changed, I changed perspectives, lifestyles, habits, etc. Sure, we can look back at the things we did in the past and think, knowing what we know now, that we have corrected our path in life…”righted a wrong” so to speak, but if those parts of our past made us happy at the time and weren’t hurting anybody else, were they really “wrongs” at all? Not for me.
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