I feel such a great sense of personal sadness at the many times and opportunities that I have wasted in my life. So many of them I think sadly. The things I would have done differently if only. Yeah I know. If only?

I know life is full of ‘if only’s’ and ‘maybe’s’ but do you ever think to yourself what if I could get the opportunity to go back and do it all over again? Go back and put things right, or try to do things differently.

Could you face down those fire breathing demons of your past again or would you just invent them all over again to face in your future? Would it be a good thing or would it just negate your life? Would you be any happier? Would getting everything right the second time around just lose you the experience of messing up and all the inherent benefits of the learning process?

Or would it be your own personal nirvana, answering life’s many questions with a crib sheet, as it were? Forewarned is forearmed if you like.

Would you change things? Could you change things?

 

Matt Spears. 2007.