If life gave us one do-over what would I use it on? Would I take back some things that I have said? Would I have gone to class instead of spending time with my PlayStation? Would I have made a move instead of letting this pass me by?
The answer is I have no clue. I considered all of those scenarios and then some but I am uncertain on this one. Sometimes I think about the Robert Frost poem The Road Less Traveled and wonder which road did I take?
I think I addressed recently that I am not where I thought I would be by now (and that isn’t some sort of pseudo-depressed lament, I’m doing everything I can to get things back on track) and I often think about the reasons behind that. Did I take the easier road or did I make things harder on myself?
That really depends on what is considered the focal point. In the moment of previous choices I did what I thought was the easiest – but that let to a tougher road now. Then again, I don’t think this road is tough based on those choices alone. I think I have decided what I need to do to get where I need to be and have done what I need to in order to get there.
If life had a reset button, or a do-over, I wouldn’t press it. I like the way this game has played out.
See what these people said:
- Thawing inch by inch | Never Stationary
- Condemned | Perspectives on life, universe and everything
- Home | Perspectives on life, universe and everything
- It wasn’t even a nokia | Casually Short
- Dale And The Surreal | The Jittery Goat
- A Memory from the Kitchen Years | AS I PLEASE
- Second Chance | Momma Said There’d Be Days Like This
- The Affair: Daily Prompt | alienorajt
- Things I regret | muffinscout
- Into the Forest I Wish I Went | Lisa’s Kansa Muse
- DP Daily Prompt: I Did it My Way | Sabethville
- in your mother tongue, | y
- Daily Prompt: I Did it My Way | Incidents of a Dysfunctional Spraffer
- Climbing the Stick — Redux | Exploratorius
- Hindsight, the Road not Taken and a Conversation with a Man Named Nicodemus | meanderedwanderings
- Wish Upon A Star | marjanitalarosa
- Daily Post: Bye, Bye Paris | Willow Blackbird
- Daily Prompt: I Did it My Way | The Wandering Poet
- Equivocation | La Gatita Oscura
- It’s time to complain (Again) | Phelio a Random Post a Day
- No regrets | A mom’s blog
- Redo from Start! | L5GN
- His plan for me (pantoum) | peacefulblessedstar
- While I’m Away From You My Son | Raising Jed
- Too Much… | Tommia’s Tablet
- Wish to Uncover the hidden secrets of human brain | Outreach
- This is My Life | Real Momma Ramblings
- No Regrets Here | The Shotgun Girls
- Major Alert | Wanderlein
- OmG … Noodles Grow On My Head | So Not Simple
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- re-set | sarahscapes
- And THEN… Daily Prompt | I’m a Writer, Yes I Am
- Regrets In My Heart | Flowers and Breezes
- Daily Prompt: February 11 | A Balmy Life
- Iteration – photo | alienorajt
- If I Could Turn Back Time | Losing It
- Daily Prompt – I Won’t Bribe! | Views Splash!
- What I did for love | Life is great
- If I could turn back time, would he now walk differently? | My thoughts on a page.
- Daily Prompt: I Did It My Way | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
- 2-11-14 Weekly Travel Theme: Yellow (Iteration Department) | The Quotidian Hudson
- Olympic Hunger Games: Sochi
- A Real Life Do-Over | snapshotsofawanderingheart
- I Did It Not My Way | The Cheese Whines
- Two Pies in the Sky « psychologistmimi
- Daily Prompt: I Did It My Way | A Place Apart
- There is no rewind… | Willow’s Corner
- That tricky 501st blog entry… | thoughtsofrkh
- Thoughts Less Traveled
- If Life had a Refresh Button | Lilly Lane
- I did It My Way « One Crazy Mom
- Broken pots required | Mishe en Place
- Would You Bring a Casserole to a Mental Patient?
What do you think?