Another day of work and watching "How I Met Your Mother", and yet another day of just thinking about odd things. TV is usually background noise for me, with a few shows here and there that really will grab my attention. I prefer books or videogames as a great way to pass the time. Here we spend a lot of time watching movies and tv shows to get through the hours. This made me start thinking about our love of tv and movies; why do we spend so much time devoted to these stories? Then it occurred to me that in every show, every story there is an ended. The characters are eventually given closure to the events in their "lives". Even when there is an open ending, we are given some type of closure to that chapter. Real life doesn't work that way, and we are not always given an opportunity for closure. Life is a series of "what ifs", and you really have to decide if you want to rely on those. A simple choice in your life always leads to something different, a cause and effect for everyone involved in any given situation. I wasted many years looking back and trying to figure out the "what ifs" in my life, and finally decided not to worry about what was. There's no specific destiny or fate for us on this crazy trip, just simply a series of options laid out before us. The choices we make are there for a reason; we just don't always know the purpose. If you are stuck in the endless reboot of "what ifs", just think about all of the ghosts in your past and then ask yourself if you really want to know what happened to them. All that is really important is that you are satisfied with where you are, and if not it is time to decide what to do to make it right. You can't change what was, not even what is, but you can always change what will be.
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