If I had it all to do over again, would I? Would you?
Take a look at your life--not just where you are today, but where you were in all of your yesterdays, and how they brought you to this point in your life. Is there anything you would change--and if so, how would that change affect the rest of your life?
I look back on what I have done over the years, who I have known, and all of the friends that I have made and lost in my life. What would I change?
Would I change moving to Texas in 1977 (a major crux in my life); would I change the breakup with my girlfriend that just sort-of happened just prior to that? Would I not move to Oshkosh in 1978, and all that happened because of that move?
Would I not meet and marry my first wife, and consequently not have my oldest daughter or my grandchildren? And because of that, would I not end up in Janesville with my second wife, and my two younger children?
Would I miss any of it if it had not happened? Would I know???
It would be interesting if we could spark up the old WhatIf machine, and just take a peek at our lives...but in the time that would take, we would use up our present lives just watching the past.
I guess that it's best to just live our lives, put the past to rest, and try to make the best of where we are today.
After all, we're the ones who got us here--even if we would wish otherwise.
And so it goes...
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While we do make choices along our way, our course may be altered through no action of our own. Life is so complex that it is extremely difficult to understand sometimes. I guess that in some ways I am a fatalist. I firmly believe that what I've done, where I've been and why, were meant to be. Why do I think this way? First of all if I had not been in Air Force stationed where I was, I would never have met your mother, consequently you and your siblings would never have been born; as a result of that we have the trickle down effect: none of our children or grandchildren would have been born. The influence that people you have met along the way (the bad stuff too) would not have strengthened your chararcter or perhaps even your resolve; the influence that you have had on others would have somehow been a gap in their lives. We are so intertwined as people,yet we sometimes lose sight of that fact.
We add to each other in ways we can never imagine; most are very subtle, but important. Look at George in It's A Wonderful Life", fiction,yes;
but something to think about where we ourselves our concerned in the scheme of things. Would I have opted for Houston of my own volition; no. I came here because there was a job, something I needed. and a lot of good things have happened in my life since I've been here. I like the grass in my own back yard even I find my self envious at times of my neighbors.
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