What if I had married that person? Taken that job? Spent the summer in Europe when I was 21?
What if I hadn’t moved to Peoria? Made that investment? Quit college?
Often an exercise in analysis paralysis, What Ifs can be paralyzing. But what if it was productive to ponder the What Ifs? What if instead of obsessively dwelling on them we reframed them?
This is, after all, Earth School. What if we looked with new eyes on the choices we have made and in so doing were not only better able to understand and process their inherent lessons, but also to embrace how said learning may have actually polished the diamond of our core being?
What If reminiscence was a way for our soul to help us to celebrate our lives by living more fully in the now?
What If, indeed.
Cosmic Gardener - Cultivating a Life 