http://bonne-vie.net/index.php/2009/la-bonne-vie-commence/ Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:52:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://bonne-vie.net/index.php/2009/la-bonne-vie-commence/comment-page-1/#comment-2287 If you could write a letter - | Bonne Vie Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:24:11 +0000 http://labonnevie.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/la-bonne-vie-commence/#comment-2287 [...] I briefly considered writing to my past self to warn myself NOT to shop at WalMart, or maybe of dangers lurking ahead. I could tell myself to store things in plastic boxes, not cardboard, so I wouldn’t lose memorabilia when the basement flooded (technically I have my HS diploma, but it’s covered in green fuzz). I could tell myself that the boy I will think I like isn’t really worth it… but every time I start thinking about warnings, I get sort of a “McFly-don’t-screw-with-the-past” feeling in my tummy. I wouldn’t want to change my trajectory and not end up where I am now – and I LOVE my life! Though I’ve experienced disappointment and disaster, I genuinely believe I had to experience all my past to be where I am now (though I am not my past experiences!). [...] [...] I briefly considered writing to my past self to warn myself NOT to shop at WalMart, or maybe of dangers lurking ahead. I could tell myself to store things in plastic boxes, not cardboard, so I wouldn’t lose memorabilia when the basement flooded (technically I have my HS diploma, but it’s covered in green fuzz). I could tell myself that the boy I will think I like isn’t really worth it… but every time I start thinking about warnings, I get sort of a “McFly-don’t-screw-with-the-past” feeling in my tummy. I wouldn’t want to change my trajectory and not end up where I am now – and I LOVE my life! Though I’ve experienced disappointment and disaster, I genuinely believe I had to experience all my past to be where I am now (though I am not my past experiences!). [...]

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