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Life is what happened when all the what-ifs didn’t. -Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth.

I’ve been thinking a lot about ‘what-ifs’ and ‘could-have-beens’ lately. I accept everything that has happened the way it were, until now. When a nagging thought kept creeping back into my mind. What could have been if I did that---?

I’ll never know, and I will just let it go.
And that’s when I met somebody from my past.
Okay so now I’m thinking of it again.

Whenever I asked people: if you could have something back, what would it be? Most of them said they want to be young again, to have another chance, to turn back time. But what good will that do?

If it does happen, you might lead a good or better life. But the chances that it might turn out bad or even worse are there, too. Or, you might try to change every single thing but you will still end up the same, the way you are now.

According to Premonition, even if you had a look into the future and did nothing or something, what will happen will still happen. In contrast to that, Butterfly Effect suggests that even the slightest change of gesture could reinvent your whole life, and the lives of people around you. Both of the characters ended up trying too hard to change things, or to finally let it go. But still it turned out the way it should be.No happy endings there.
It will be forever before I understand why you can’t tempt fate.But for the time being, I am willing to accept.

...what about you?