Back to the Future

I wonder what life would have been like if I'd been born one year later or one year earlier than I was.

I wonder what life would have been like if I'd been born somewhere else or with different parents or if I had been born without my innate personality traits or my natural tendencies or a different name.

I wonder if I had chosen to remain home-schooled through high-school or attend a different university or try a different career path or date another person or even eat that sushi last night. 

Would I be somewhere else right now? Would I even be writing this nonsensical blog post?

Would I be working an eighty hour work week as a marine biologist in Washington?

Would I be writing my second novel about superheroes at a Starbucks in Manhattan?

Would I be holding a child I'd adopted from India and pruning my homegrown herb garden?

If I were to go back in time, would I change anything to be somewhere different than I am?

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I can't answer that.

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Can you?

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Are there choices you've made that you wish you could take back?

Are there actions you took that led you here, that you'd rather you hadn't?

Or - is there something in the future you want to see come true, 

some wish you want to see come to fruition that if you make a move now,

 if you do something RIGHT NOW, it just might?

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Well, that's tough to wonder about, isn't it?

It's hard to see the future,

 but it's also difficult, just as equally,

 to know if something had been different in the past,

perhaps the present might still be what it is.

To go back is impossible, 

but that doesn't mean the present can't be altered.

The Right Now is a time just as yesterday was and tomorrow will be.

The Right Now is malleable and fluid, a shifting, changing time,

where anything is possible and nothing is impossible.