WHAT IF

As we traverse through life day by day, many emotions we carry on our backs. Happiness, saddness, love and hate.
Pain and pleasure, fear and courage.
Guilt and regret, missed opportunities.
A whirlwind of mixed emotions, it is no wonder why its complicated to be a human being.
Everyone strives to be perfect but by being perfect in an imperfect world, isn't that person imperfect too?
As we grow older and older, we add on more and more questions to our "What if" list. More regrets that we have, more missed opportunities in life and the guilt meter just keeps growing and growing.

Here is a list of What if questions that we might have come across in our lives:
What if
1. I could have the chance to turn back time
2. I could make things right again
3. I could be prettier/ more handsome
4. I was born in a different family
5. I could have treasured him/her when he/she was around
6. I could have plucked up the courage to make her mine
7. I never broke up with him/her, we would still be happy
8. I had worked harder when I was young
9. I never that stupid mistake that costed me my life
10. I had never fallen in love with him/her
11. I could choose my destiny all over again
12.I could be smarter than others
13. I could bring him/her back to life
14. I could say the things I wished I had the courage to say
15. I could have done the things that I promised
16. I could have taken back all the things that I said before
17. I could lead a different life
18. I could have treated her/him better so that the relationship would last
19. I was dead right now
20. I could never feel or need love in my life, I would not be in so much pain

These are just some "What if" questions that pass us by in different stages of our lives. Would it be better to reminence about the past and wish we could have done better or would it be better to forgive and forget?

Someone once told me that we never forgive and forget, rather we should forgive and learn, learn the many lessons about how much those missed opportunities cost us.

Have you thought about your "What if" list yet? I guess it only makes us more human.

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. ~Mary Anne Radmacher