Writer's Block: Do-over!

[athelind]

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If you were given a life do-over card, would you keep it or give it to a friend? If you kept it, would you prefer to be born to the same or different parents? Would you want to keep your memories?

I'd keep it, most definitely. I can only think of one friend who's managed to screw up his life anywhere nearly as badly as I've screwed up mine.

I wouldn't trade my parents in for anyone. I would definitely keep my memories; that's the whole point of a do-over, right? "Putting things right that once went wrong", as they used to say on Quantum Leap.

If I had to limit myself to one, specific change, I'd have stayed in the Coast Guard and gone to Marine Science Tech school. I could have spent the last two decades actually doing Real Science That Made A Difference instead of pissing around struggling to get a science degree that I don't know how to apply.

If I kept my memories, I could still meet the people who mean the most to me.

And the one who made me happy.

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Comments

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

If I'd that one change I'd have gone to London Transport instead of EMI. Meaning I'd not be doing what I do where I do it and making a (good) difference to at least some people.

But... I might be an hexecertiff, I might be on humungous money with a final salary pension....
or I might have fried myself on the 600V rail.
Nil Desperandum. it's not over until it's over, and there's good stuff yet to come... just wait and see.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

I'd have free bus & tube travel, dat's fo' sho'....