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"What If?"

Imagine you could start your life again, at a pivotal point in your life. Would you choose the same path? Where would you start and what would you do differently?

I thought about this myself and there are things I'd probably be tempted to change, things that made my life miserable at the time, but then I thought more and realised that these things, however bad, helped shape me into the person I am today. Sometimes a really bad incident or time in your life can produce positive results. However, sometimes you just wonder what it would be like to take a different course. Would a previous love have worked out if you had made different decisions? Would that fight you walked away from be any different if you had faced up to it? Would you have even survived this long?

Questions, many that cannot be answered, but it's a great way to make yourself realise that you are more than the sum of your experiences.

But still I wonder…What if?

If I could change one thing in my life it would be that I didn't bury the bodies in a more inaccessible location.

So far - I think I've made all the right decisions. Most of the bad things that have happened in my life couldn't have been avoided, although before I'd properly thought about it, I would have thought there would be loads of things I would have changed.

Notorious Biggles wrote:
> Well your not the only one in that position Lindgren, but you can't
> change anything. So you just have to learn to move on and leave it in
> the past.

I've worked very hard at moving on, I think I've accomplished that in the last 18 months or so. We can't dwell on what ifs forever.

It's not really even against free will though, just that there are those (a growing number, actually) that believe the earth itself is capable of looking out for itself and that will have effects not just in the ecological world, but will drive us towards something.

Remember: Having free will does not stop you being talked in to something. Timeshare, anyone?

J Nash wrote:
> I love it when you try and sound complicated.

i dont try, i do.

i explained it like that, to give the explanation of the "reason" i thought there was.

Well your not the only one in that position Lindgren, but you can't change anything. So you just have to learn to move on and leave it in the past.

Clazon wrote:
> well, clearly. the boy falling off of his bike would break his leg,
> because gravity pulled him to the floor and he fell in such a
> position that forces moved until a point where the bone breaks.
> theres a reason. but it has no deeper meaning.

I love it when you try and sound complicated.

Bora† SagdiyeV wrote:
> REGRET NOTHING! your choices, good or bad, are what made you who you
> are today!

Thats part of the problem. :P

>
> bad choices can be character building, and make you stronger in the
> long run (unless your bad choice results in death! :D )

One of my bad decisions that I could change going back in time would probably result in someone being still alive now.

There are definitely things I would change, things that I did when I was young and foolhardy that have influenced others opinions of me, as well as things that I have done that may jeopardise the life ahead of me.

Clazon wrote:
> @ng3l wrote:
> but i believe that the things that have happened in my life happened
> for a reason.
>
> well, clearly. the boy falling off of his bike would break his leg,
> because gravity pulled him to the floor and he fell in such a
> position that forces moved until a point where the bone breaks.
> theres a reason. but it has no deeper meaning.

Theres always one!!