Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Sticky Past

Our present is a sum total of our pasts. This moment is a resultant of our many previous actions and decisions. All of them intervoven together to create this liked or disliked present moment.

I sometimes wonder what would have been our lives like had we had the power to change one single detail from our past. For one i know, it may result in me not being present here, typing what i am typing right now. One single decision changed from my past, would have landed me in a totally differnt geography right now (and obviously a differnt time zone), in a differnt state of mind and involved in differnt state of affairs. I would have had differnt set of people to assosiate with, a differnt set of people who i would have called friends and office colleagues (and a different boss, ofcouse!).

Past can never be changed ofcourse. The fact remains that we humans are powerless in that sense. But assuming, just for a moment, if we had the power to change one thing from our past, what would it be?

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