The end and the new beginning....

Friday, the quarter ended.  Technically, it ended the Friday before and was followed by  3 days of exams.  It is the end but also a beginning.  Crazy how that happens. It brings to mind that song "Closing Time":

 "every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end" (Semisonic)

I like fresh starts.  Every year, we take the time to look at the last year and make a resolution....a new beginning. 

My husband is a time travel junkie.  This impacts   our movie and TV watching significantly. Enjoying so many time travel stories, makes you stop and think....if there was an opportunity, would you go back and change something?  Would you create a new beginning that would cause a different end?  

Some days feel like  "Groundhog Day" with Bill Murrey waking up to the same day over and over.

Some times you wonder about the "Butterfly Effect" and how making  1 change would impact the rest of your life.

I think most people would  go back and change something traumatic in their lives.  I remember being about 4 years old and walking with  my cousins and uncles from grandma's house to my great aunt's house a block away.  We walked through a field and into a swarm of yellow jackets. All of us were stung  repeatedly.

That being said, I think most of our strong young memories are of trauma and not  of the good stuff and we would be too young in that situation to effect a change if we time traveled.  No one would listen to us.

Maybe it would be a decision we have more control over like what we want to be when we grow up.  Knowing where I am now, maybe I would be able to time travel back and become a teacher during my undergrad work rather than being so undecided and taking  3 extra years to figure it out.  

Maybe I would never have chosen to be  a teacher....can't imagine it but you never know.

I guess most people look back at something they regret and want to change.  I always try to  live with the theme 

Never regret anything you've done 

and 

never do anything you will regret.  

So in the biggest picture, I am always happy because:

 whatever it is, 

it is.