We had a social event one afternoon this week for the team at work. One of the women in the group, who seems particularly unhappy joined the conversation I was part of. One might say she has a tragic air about her, and I'm sure that being Russian, svelte, and chic don't hurt the image. She said "Wouldn't it be great to toss out your current life and start all over?"
There were just women in the room at that point, and we had a good discussion about it. One woman said "absolutely not. I'd make the same choices all over again." I wondered, at what point would you restart? Would you get to stay the same age? Or would you have to regress?
And then I realized that I've actually had the opportunity to change nearly everything in my life, although it hasn't been instantaneous. In the long distant past, getting out of constant physical and psychological pain has been a prerequisite. More recently, we created an addition on the house and did a makeover on the rest of it. As if that wasn't huge enough, Robert and I got married and moved in together. But wait, there was more! I left my job and spent a few months thinking about what to do next. It turned out that I liked my work, just not the environment that had developed around my job, so now I am doing the same thing in a different place.
How many times in our lives do we get these opportunities? How many times do we not even notice?
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