Greenfield’s posts above are really spot on. When I was coming to an end of my military service, I met a woman that, on looking back, could well have been “the one.” Since I have been a lifelong bachelor (often reluctantly) I wonder what would have happened if I had pursued that relationship? I often think how much my life might have been different, but what Greenfields said about changing something and the effect it would have downstream on many, many, others, it gives me pause to realize that I’;m happy with my life now, maybe it would not have been the great experience I might wish to think it would have been, had I done things differently.
Like the old adage goes, “bloom where you are planted.”