Writer's Block: Upon further review
If you could go back and change one event in your life (or un-say one thing you wish you'd never said), what would you choose, and why?
I'd go back and not talk the ex into giving us another chance when he first broached the subject of breaking up, five years before it actually happened.
Would it change who I am now? Very probably. And for me, that wouldn't be such a bad thing. I would have avoided five years of self-doubt and pain and recriminations and the loss of friends that accompanied it. I would be financially stable. I most likely would have started therapy a lot earlier and possibly wouldn't be on the anti-depressants. I wouldn't be 41 years old and finally getting to a point where I'm feeling I can trust myself, reconsidering my career path and wanting to do something for myself, something I enjoy. I would have had an extra five years to get my shit together after the whole thing and I entirely possibly wouldn't be half the mess I was when it did actually end.
However, there are no time machines. No backsies. So it's better to look forward and concentrate on what I do have, instead of what I don't.