If I could go back for one day......

12:05am December 21st, 2008 By braceletseeds

 

If I could go back for one day.....

 

I'd tell my best friend that I appreciated her befriending me as a new student in the third grade three days before she unexpectedely died of an unknown brain tumor.  ( I had a debate with my brother over why I didn't go back to tell her she has a brain tumor.  But I'm trying to choose things that don't throw off the space-time continuum.  Or maybe I should just go back to six months before and tell her mom, but that would be weird)

 

I'd tell those girls on the bus to get a life...the same girls who later became my friends but I never stood up to.

 

I wouldn't have been embarassed to tell my fifth grade teacher that I couldn't see the board because I needed glasses (she had to inform my parents that I was squinting and my work was slacking)

 

I would walk through my junior high school with my head raised up and not give those preppy girls a reason to think they're any cooler than me.

 

I would take that troubled girl under my wings instead of secretly thinking that she was lying or actually more confident than she ended up being.

 

I would just breath and run to the finish line with no fear.

 

I would talk back to that annoyingly mean girl in high school much earlier than I did, saving myself and countless others a lot of headaches.

 

I'd then give that racist teacher a piece of my mind after I turned in my final exam.

 

I would save people.  

 

I would pet my childhood cat, hug and kiss him one last time.

 

I would say no.

 

I would say yes.

 

I would say get lost.

 

I would write down my grandfather's story.

 

I'd tell myself to not think too much.  Sometimes it's better to just act.

 

I'd tell myself not to jump to conclusions.  Sometimes it's better to just breath.

 

Maybe it's wrong to wish to go back and change things.  But maybe thinking of what we would have done with what we know now, can tell us to apply those same principles to the present.  I'm going to smile and talk more.  Be more generous without thinking.  Speak my feelings when they bubble up but hold back criticisms when they're better off unsaid. 

 

I asked my brother this same question......he said he would take the $200 million winning lottery numbers and give it to himself a week ago.   Maybe men think differently then us.

 

 

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  Posted by anonymous December 22nd, 2008
great post

  Posted by openid.aol.com/boujak December 22nd, 2008
I bet for each regret you have, you have ten that you are happy you did. With time, we stand more for what we believe in and less for what people want us to do. u r on the right track girl.

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