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This is a way of making myself write something coherent and grammatically correct almost every day. I'm opinionated and need an outlet. I'm also prone to flights of fancy. Thanks for stopping by. |
| I heard one today that I haven't heard before. I don't know who sang it, or if it's new or old, but the lyrics got to me. The refrain goes, "Some people say they wouldn't change a thing if they could, but I would." The examples in the verses included spending more time with his father before he died, going skinny dipping when he was asked as a teenager, buying his wife the red dress she had her heart set on, etc. Don't most of us wish we could change something if we could do it over with what we know now? The job I would not have taken, the move I would not have made, the boy I shouldn't have dated, you know those kinds of things. Maybe in high school, I could have forced myself to be more outgoing, including to the cliques. The snotty girls turned out to be just insecure and had to be mean to make themselves feel better. Other girls ended up being more successful than they did. And like the singer, I would have spent more time with my mother when she was sick. I would have gotten my divorce sooner. But we can't go back and do it all again. Moving on means accepting the choices that we made and living with the consequences. Maybe that's why the song struck such a note with me. It had that mournful overtone, because we don't get "do-over's". It did make me ask myself what other people might change. But it seems we have two options: live in regret or just ask, "What's next?" |
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