There was a movie made about 10 years ago where a 13 year old girl wishes that she could skip over her teen years and become an adult. She is granted her wish and wakes up in NY as a 30 year old woman. During the following days and weeks, she realizes that she was one of the popular group of girls in junior high that also was a group of bullies. She has lost her best friend and doesn't visit her parents. She has sabotaged her job and boss, who she thinks is a really nice guy and doesn't deserve to lose his company. Her co-workers dislike her and her secretary is afraid of her. In short, her life is nothing like she thought it would be.
In one scene, she goes back to her childhood home trying to reverse the wish. At breakfast the next morning she asks her mother if she regretted making any mistakes in her life. Her mother tells her "no, because if I hadn't have made them, I wouldn't have learned how to make things right." And at this point of the movie I want to yell at the TV, "of course you would change some of your decisions!" Who wouldn't want to change some things in their life?
Whether it is not going into debt for that new car when you had a perfectly good car, or something as simple as not cutting someone off in traffic, who of us wouldn't change a few things in our life? (And no, you can't find out the winning lottery numbers.)
Today is the start of a new year. Make this year one that on Dec 31, 2015, you won't have to say , "If I could change what I did this year...."
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