Tuesday, March 25, 2008

you know i'm beginning to think about what i could be
doing right now if i'd made different decisions.
this kind of thinking always has a hint of regret.
the what if's always have a hint of sadness.
i wonder if i'd been more brave and moved to say
new york after high school would i be making films
and working with people i admire today?
i wonder if i'd been less afraid and continued to
participate in the music and acting i thrived in would
i be doing that today in some capacity?
i wonder if i hadn't gotten divorced if we would now
have a family and i'd be content in my middle class
part of the american dream?
i wonder if no matter the choices i'd made if i was
always going to end up here.
looking out from 37 i guess the only option is to
make the best of what's left.
to be more brave, less afraid, and make better choices.
"i'm just trying to know so i can figure out my plans."
jack whitman

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

If you keep looking back, it will take you farther and farther back. Everyone has done this process before but i always have to stop myself. I go back 7 years and then think well if i didn't do that i would have to go back 14 years to change the person i was then and then it just goes on and on. I then realize that if i didn't make the choices i did way back when i wouldn't be the person I am today and I cant' see myself being anyone else. And i cant' see you being anyone else. What if all those things strayed you farther and farther away from the Father?