what if...

Today's Blathering is a collaboration for Wordgoddess. Topic: "What if..."

What if...

What if that guy from Smashing Pumpkins lost his car keys?

What if is a versatile protein structure analysis program.

What if Netscape had won?

What if you built a blog and no one came?

What, if anything, is a Byzantine?

What if I shot my TV?

What if the Beatles had been computer freaks?

What if I'm pregnant?

What if we could do anything?

What if Dr. Seuss wrote technical documentation?

What if is an innovation company.

What if the gunpowder plot had succeeded?

What if is a GIS-based system.

What if The Lord of the Rings had been written by someone else?

And what if I had decided to write a serious "what if" Blatherings entry?

Of course there's the obvious stuff, like "what if Jim and Diane were still alive, what would things be like" etc., but for me, not only are those what-ifs useless, but also hurtful and counter-productive.

I also don't generally go for the whole regretful decision rehashing. Regret with a vow to learn from the whole experience is one thing, but I believe that people have to make mistakes along the way to figure out what they're doing.

Who I am today is the sum of all my experiences, good and bad decisions, the choices and life priorities I've set for myself. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't make all the same choices, it's true, but neither would I have a guarantee that I'd be happier than I am now, or a better person.

What if I could relive my life...would I do it? This is such a loaded question, sort of like the "if your husband and your mother were drowning and you could only save one of them, which would you save" impossible-to-answer context.

I've been through a lot to get to where I am now. Instead of wistfully daydreaming about what-ifs, I think I'd rather focus on the here and now.

It has so much more potential. :-)

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