Reset Button.

[RhodaGrits]

I keep wanting to hit the reset button on my life. I've been having this fantasy about it for the last few days. Think long and hard about what you would do (and/or not do) if given the following opportunity and constraints:

1) 30 days from today you will awake on the morning of your 17th birthday, in your 17 year old body, in the place you were living on that day but retaining all the knowledge and memories you have now. (Shades of "Peggy Sue Got Married"). You have 30 days to prepare and wind up this life.

2) You may take a 30" long X 24" wide by 10" deep locked container and fill it with anything you would like to take back with you from this present time. (Computer equipment, photos, momentoes, money, whatever you believe will be valuable, necessary or dear to you.) You cannot take another living creature with you.

3) You may decline this opportunity because the future will be altered by your actions and you cannot foresee the outcome. (I can't promise you won't be hit by a truck 3 days later.)

What events would you want to try to change? What relationships would you alter? For me, this would be going back to 1972. For some of you, it might only be a few years. I keep mentally tugging on threads of my life, unravelling them and realizing how even the bad things make up part of "me". Would I choose the same profession again? Or because I've done "that", would I do something else? Would I (and even could I?) prevent someone's death if given the opportunity? Could one person make enough difference to slow/stop global warming and climate disasters? Which got me thinking about how much more I could and should be doing in the present. If it would be important enough to fight harder for then, it is important enough to be doing everything I can for now. I'm curious to know your thoughts. I bounced this off a friend and found he was just as fascinated by the ramifications. I have enjoyed the introspective dialog that the fantasy triggered - I would like to hear your thoughts. (If you have regrets and missed opportunities that you would like to alter - is there a way you could fix that today? Because the present moment is still all we ever have.)