Do you ever wonder what your life would have been like if you had been born to different parents or in a different country or maybe just a different time-even just a year or two? Or if you had made one different decision? If you'd gone to a different party and met a different person who you'd later marry, how would things right now look different? Would you have the same beliefs? Would you have the same talents? Would you be good at something you've never even tried in your life? Who would you love? What would your kids be like? What would your outlook be?
Obviously most of that is purely circumstance, but personal choice also has just as big a role to play in your future now. I personally believe that for all the good and many many bad decisions we make, we learn and grow and become wiser about the world, ourselves and others hopefully. I think the more wrong decisions you make today, you have the unique opportunity to know more than the person who made "good" decisions tomorrow--if you pay attention. That's the real key- you have to allow yourself to make the mistakes, notice them, take responsibility for them (at least mentally) and figure out how you could have done things differently, with more compassion, love, respect and obviously with different results.
If you could live your life backward from the funeral service on, would that make a difference? Wouldn't you want to either live up to those expectations of yourself or prove (to them and you) that you were more? Would you love more and forgive faster and care less about who thinks what and more about the footprint you're leaving behind, not what cute shoes its in? Its not too late yet. Appreciate those in your life who add meaning and depth and beauty and spend more time with them. Tell them. Spend time with yourself and learn who you are for others. Be that for yourself too. Give more than you think you have. You won't be sorry.
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