Care for a do-over?

Ever wonder how your life would be, had you got one do-over? I was doing my usual routine when I fly. I nap for about 30 seconds, reach out for the airline magazine, make a mental note of our next destination somewhere between the amazing hotels advertised and the things to do in a certain vacation spot, open my iPad to read, read for about 45 seconds before switching over to Solitaire. I was on a particularly bad streak of losing when i realized that the game allows you one do-over. That practically changed the course of my game. And that got me thinking - if the face of a game can change with one do-over, how would one do over alter the course of one's life?

More interestingly, I started to think of things that I would change, events/decisions/moments I would want to erase from my life and start over again with that one do-over. There are things that come to mind right away - that extremely embarrassing moment when I waved back to a person only to realize that the person was waving at someone behind me, the numerous heartbreaks, the bad hair style choices that ended up in pictures, the mere thought of which make me cringe, the genius moment when I decided to color my hair red, moments of utter dismal weakness, the multiple overseas flights alone, only to name a few. That's when I realize, this list will never end - for ANYone.

I WISH I could find one person who would attest that their life, it's course, their decisions, where they've been and where they are going, everything in their life choices was perfect. I KNOW that despite the unending list, my life feels perfect. It fits. It makes sense. Every single life experience has made me the person I am, and in its own crazy, twisted and imperfect way, my life is that of a very happy person.

I realize that I am weird and whacked out and to me, that's the only way to be. How can one take life too seriously? When the tick-tocks chime away unnoticed, how much sense does running behind making a grand big picture make? In its own convoluted form, my life, in all it's drama, in all its beautiful and bitter moments, in all its glory and darkness, has taught me a very simple thing. Almost too simple. The smiles that were, will always make you smile, and the tears that were, are gone. Life, in that vein, cannot get much more perfect now, can it? How would one do-over fix something that is already perfect?

Ever wonder how your life would be, had you got one do-over? Turns out you don't need that one do-over or for that matter any number of do-overs to look back and admire the magnificence of your current life story.