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Wouldn't it be nice to start life all over again, doing things right this time?

Or not necessarily "right" so much as wrong in more instructive ways. After all, we can learn so much from our mistakes, as long as they're not the same silly mistake every single time.

If I could start over, the main thing I would change is that I'd stand up for myself at a younger age. Strangely, I learned to stick up for other people much sooner than I learned to fight for myself--I remember as a kid defending one of the few people less popular than I was and earning a great deal of respect from other kids that way. But standing up for my own right to my own views was so much harder.

There are things I couldn't change until fairly late, of course. I'd still be a snob in the early years, because that's the tendency of my base personality. So I'd still learn humility the hard way, but that's not such a bad thing.

Can't start life over, though. I do wonder where this one is going. I hope & pray it'll be someplace more interesting than where it's been recently.