If you could change something in your life, anything at all, what would it be?  — The Sixth Sense

Honestly, if given the choice to go back and change my life, I wouldn’t.  My life’s not perfect, but it has some perfect aspects.

Let’s say I could go back to Christmastime 1990 and stop myself from getting involved with my first wife.  That little detail alone would have saved me over two decades of trouble.  But she led to my oldest, and her absence led to my second wife, who came with Little Bear and Girlie Bear.  Missing out on them would have meant I never would have moved to Kentucky, which means no Irish Woman or Boo.

No amount of missed grief is worth losing the best parts of my life.

I used to have thoughts of how much easier life would be had x not happened or y happened differently.  But to dwell on the past is to miss out on today.  It can also poison your future.  A lot of people I know who have thrown away their families talk about how they were trapped into them or cheated of a good life.  Yeah, my life isn’t perfect, but it’s worth remembering just how good I have it.