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Monday, March 14, 2011

The Grand Redo

Do you ever think about your life and say, "if only I knew then what I know now..."
What if you did? What if everyone got one "do-over" - a chance to take the knowledge they have now and apply it to a critical point in their life? Would you use it?

Not sure what I mean? Here's an example. Let's take Keyshia Cole's mom. I was watching an episode of her show and she was telling her granddaughter how she'd gotten excellent grades, a college scholarship, a few degrees, and then made some bad decisions. In my world, she could rewind to that point and call for her redo. And then she could choose a new path, truly knowing back then what she knows now.

Imagine the possibilities. You're on meth, you can rewind to before you first picked up the pipe. You're stuck in a dead-end career, you can rewind to change your major. You liked that other house better? Rewind to before you signed the mortgage papers. The catch would be you only get one shot; after your redo you deal with what you've got. If you wanted to change the ugly perm you got in 7th grade and then end up on meth...you're out of redoes. Sorry.

Just a thought.

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