Who We Are

"In life we do things. Some we wish we had never done. Some we wish we could replay a million times in our heads. But they all makes us who we are. And in the end they shape every detail about us. If we were to reverse any of them we wouldn't be the person we are. So just live. Make mistakes. Have wonderful memories. But never ever second guess who you are, where you have been, and most importantly where it is you're going." Have you ever thought about going back in time and making a different decision at a certain point in your life? How that one thing would not be present in your life anymore or things would be slightly different? Have you actually thought it all of the way through? If I have learned anything from studying history no matter how much we would like to change something from the past, we cannot just change that one thing. Everything has a cause and affect. That is just the way it is. We are who we are right now because of all of the small or big things that happened in the past. If I had married that one guy way back when I would never have come to Utah, studied theater or history, met all of the amazing people that I have met, made the contacts that I have in theater, experienced all of the spiritual experiences that I experienced, gotten to know a part of my family like I do now...I would have missed all of that. Granted I know that I would not know about all of that, just like I do not know how my life would be now if I had married that guy! Your life is what it is now. All you have experienced and all of the people you have met have happened because of where you are right now! We are who we are because of our past. I do not know if I would give up the things that matter most to me now to change one mistake that I made in the past. What about you?