If I Could Turn Back Time??

"If I could go back and change it...."

We've all said it. We've all thought about it. Would we really change anything that we did in our lives?

My personal fear is that I would go back and change things, and just as I think I'm in the clear I start fading from pictures. A complete and total "Back to the Future" disaster would ensue, and a giant rip would form in the space/time continuum, and no flux capacitor could save us then!

If I were assured of having no such McFly disaster scenario take place, some things I would go back and change would be...

1. As a child, I would decide that I could NOT fly, thus NOT jumping head first off the couch into the wall, and therefore NOT scaring the crap out of my mom.

2. I would decide to pick up baseball, basketball, and/or football in 5th grade...not wrestling. I may have lasted longer than 2 weeks, and the uniforms aren't nearly as embarrassing.

3. I would ask that girl out.

4. I would ask that girl out again.

5. I would make an effort to stay in touch with a handful of folks after high school.

6. I would remind my teenage self that he had no idea.

7. I would get a haircut.

8. I would go to Chillipepper in 2004, and suffer on the bus through the ice storm.

9. I would aggressively pursue that job at Clemson.

10. I would turn the volume down.

11. I would visit my grandma more often.

I was going to go the humorous route, but it didn't work out that way. So, I stopped before I got down,haha...

Regrets are an unfortunate part of life. We make stupid decisions. We take actions we shouldn't, and stay still when we need to move. We end up missing out on good things, and make bad things out of good ones.

I find that the older I get, the fewer regrets I create. I think it's because I've created about as many as a saved person can already.

So what do we do? We seek God. We do right by Him each day He gives us. We forgive. We don't forget, but we don't hold on to it. We get on with it. No wallowing!

I often wonder how things might have turned out differently for me had I made different choices. But in the end it's moot. I'm sure I've missed out on some things God tried to bless me with, but I also know that God still blesses me, even though I don't deserve it.

I may not get all I want, but I have everything I need. That's one thing I never want to change.

Adam