Bloggerstock: Do Over!

I like doing introductions. They're kind of fun. So this month, I decided to do a bloggerstock post. So you sign up, and then everyone who signs up gets the same prompt. You write for someone's blog and someone else writes for yours.

I'm lucky to have a Bloggerstock founder guest post on my blog. Check out more of Alex Weisman's writing here: http://icewolf08.com.  Alex is a really awesome guy. I've had the pleasure of chatting with him on 20sb on many occasions. I hope you enjoy his post.

I know you might be sad that you don't get to read something I wrote today. But you're in luck! I also wrote a post.  Read my guest blog here: http://michaelvenske.com/blog/

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t is that crazy time again, Bloggerstock!  I am coming to you from IceWolf's Ramblings and odds are this will turn into one of my very traditional rambles.  This month's topic is "Do-Overs," a topic that I really didn't know how to approach.  One of the first things that this topic reminded me of is a couple of "Futurama" episodes when they have the "What-if machine."  It was a machine where you could ask what-if questions and it would show you what could have been.  Seemingly the only "time travel device" that didn't create any paradox.  Ok, so I am a sci-fi/tech geek. 

I think the biggest problem I have with do-overs is that I like where I am today.  I am happily employed, I have a great relationship with my girlfriend, I am happy where I am living, life is pretty good.  Therefore, the sci-fi nerd in me would worry about the things that I might do over changing what I have currently.  I suppose I could end up just as happy if I changed things that I had done in the past, but maybe not in the same place as I am today.  Maybe it is a fear of the unknown, I don't know.

Then, when i started to think about things that I might want to do over, the things that ended up at the top of my list seemed to center around relationships.  One in particular that I think was probably doomed from the start.  I think that if I had the chance to do that again I would probably just not get into that relationship.  It lead to too much unhappiness and affected more people than just myself and her.  Being free of that may have drastically changed my social life in college, quite possibly for the better.  Now, don't get me wrong, we are still friends, but I think that it is better this way.  We were never in the same place at the same time and our lives were always set on different paths.

Beyond that, I can't really put a finger on any decisions that I regret or things that I would change.  I mean, I would love to change things like the car wreck that I was in this summer.  I would love to have not wrecked my parent's truck.  This seems fairly minor and far from life-changing.  It certainly was one of those things that right after it happened I kept saying to myself: "if only I could have done that differently." On the other hand, it just seems to minor to worry about.  It wasn't like I totaled the BMW!

I feel like changing the minute things may actually have the most impact on life.  The little things always seem to add up faster than the big things.  I suppose though, that if you only got one do-over it would be pointless to waste it on something small.  If I was going to change something that I had done though, I would want it to be something with predictable results.  I would have a hard time picking something to change if I couldn't have some idea of how I would end up now.  On the other hand, if by taking your do-over you didn't remember how things had been, maybe it wouldn't be so bad as there would be no basis for comparison.  Maybe I just spend to much time over thinking such things.

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