I’m looking out on a large oak tree that is probably 300 years old. Each year winter strips it of its leaves, rendering it little more than a giant black carcass. In spring, its shape slightly altered by new growth, its height a little closer to the heavens, it returns, never questioning its purpose or path.
As humans, we question everything. Like all of us, sometimes I look back on my life and wonder what if…?Not with regret, because the paths I’ve chosen, however erratic they may seem to others, have managed to lead me to a place that I wouldn’t change for anything. Well, I’d have more money, but hell, anyone can say that.
Every once in a while, though, I do fantasize about other things I’d like to be doing and wonder what my life would have been like had I chosen to emulate '60s TV attorney, Perry Mason, as opposed to my comic book hero, Millie the Model.
Oddly, I never think what if I’d gotten married and/or had children.
Sometimes I wish I’d gone to Stanford and gotten a law degree. When I was in high school, we’d often cruise the campus for parties. You’d have thought that, in and of itself, would have motivated me, but I was never a great student. Still, that’s where Sandra Day O’Conner got her start and I would have had a kick-ass time on the Supreme Court.
It would have been exciting to go to Columbia University in New York
I’d have killed to have been a rock star, but the gods wickedly deemed that I would be born tone deaf.
Crossroads happen at every stage of our lives. Opportunities present themselves only to disappear in a flash if not grabbed, but I’ve found that if you keep your eyes and mind open, there’s always another one.
I, of course, want them all…
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