It is true that most people get multiple chances at most aspects of life, but that isn't always the case. Sometimes opportunity knocks only once. The prepared open and reap the benefits. The rest spend months or years or a lifetime pondering how life could be different if only.
Sometimes, when I have nothing else to do... okay, who am I kidding? I always have something else to do. But sometimes, I get into a reflective mood and I begin to think about my choices and how my life could be different if I'd done something differently in the past. Each day, I make more choices, all of them leading me somewhere, and often not quite where I intended. But no matter what happens, I can never undo prior decisions. I can only correct what I can and move on. That is what life has taught me... we all get chances.
Each time we make good decisions, we have the chance to learn about the benefits of good decision-making abilities. Each time we make bad decisions and live through it, we learn what to avoid and how to make better decisions. We always have a chance to learn as long as we are alive. Age is not a deterrent. Socioeconomic status, family ties and history are merely road bumps. They cannot keep you from living and learning if that is what you choose to do. Take every chance afforded to you to better your life, not by the material and temporary only, but emotionally and spiritually as well. I know I am. I made a decision to stop fretting over what is and what isn't in my life. I choose now to learn what I can by the things that come and the things that go.
