Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 03, 2006
December 02, 2006
December 04, 2006
Transcript:
Miss Plainwell: Ask people what they'd do differently if they had their life to live over, and you'd probably get a few key turning points. But ask them some evening what they'd do if they could live that day over, and you'd get a list a mile long. But here's the key question: what would we do differently...if we had this run to do over? Frazz: That left turn at the boat launch was where things quit looking familiar.
Wouldn’t change a damn thing, and here is my reasoning:
Everything we are is the sum of our experiences. Change even one thing, and that can potentially alter who you are. If my sister had not died at age 11, I would be a different person than I am today. Would I have joined the military? Would I have met my wife? Would my life be better? Worse? There is no way to tell. Perhaps her death made me more compassionate towards the ill or the suffering? Perhaps without that experience I would be a more callous individual.
Also, the cancer my sister died of was pretty much untreatable at the time, but today therapies exist so that the survival rate is over 90%. If my sister had not died, would the cancer she died of still be killing more children? Who knows?
Are there things I regret? Absolutely! But I just have to learn from them and live in the now. Wishing to change the past is not only futile, but it also does not make sense.