rewind

have you ever been asked "if you could go back and change anything, what would it be?"

i have. at first, i would always think of something that had happened earlier. some mistake i could fix. but as i've gotten older (not that much, i guess but still...)

i've come to realize that if i really could go back and change something, i would choose not to. i feel like everything that has happened in my life up to this point, even if it hurt me, in the long run has ended up helping me.

one of the things i always try to remember when something shitty is going on, is that everything happens for a reason. because if you think about it, it really does. even if we don't understand why, or we don't find out that reason till years later.

"which is worse, saying something and wishing you hadn't, or saying nothing and wishing you had?"
i honestly don't know the answer to this question. i think it really depends on you. for the longest time, my problem was always saying nothing. both suck though.

"it's not who you think you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not." there's so much truth to this, it's not even funny. for so many of us, maybe even most of us, this is what stops us from trying, from striving for whatever it may be that we want most.