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John Cornell
I think if I went back I would do many things differently, but not necessarily because I am unsatisfied with the way they turned out. Yes of course I would go back to that day in high school where I left my wallet in the library...the wallet that contained my first, most intimate, most important and meaningful note I had received from the first person I think I ever truly fell in love with. I think we all long to go back to those negative moments we remember in life and either turn them into a positive one, or simply make it so that moment never existed. I am more intrigued, however, by the outcome of different possibilities...not just big decisions like whether I should take the blue pill or the red pill. Smaller, more subtle changes like whether or not your personal attendance of a hockey would at all affect the outcome. On the surface that question is obviously pretty silly. You; one person, could never have an effect as far reaching as changing the outcome of a sports game. Still what effect, if any, would it have? On anything? If you never went maybe someone else in the row behind you would have taken your seats? Caught a hockey puck? A baseball? A bridal bouquet? These questions often times cause me to feel insignificant in the eyes of the world. What effect do I have on anything? But sometimes...sometimes I toy with the idea that we are all connected. All of our decisions affect something and someone in more ways than we may even imagine possible.
So if I could go back, would I still do it?
Yes, I'd do it. Then I'd go back and not do it. Then I'd go back and do it differently.
Just to see what happens.
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