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So you've probably gathered by now that a lot of my blogs tend to retread over ground covered in previous posts, expanding on them as I feel I have more to say on the subject, well todays blog is loosely linked to In memoriam, I commented then on the mistakes that I have made in life, my thought now is: given the chance, which mistakes would you change?

This is a theme that you sometimes see in books, in movies, in various other media. A person is given an insight into a different life they could have lived if they'd made a decision differently, or perhaps some cheap time-travelling sci-fi show? You go back in time, change something (you think) for the better, only to find out that you've made a completely different future. As with all Hollywood themes it has been disected a million times, with a million different perspectives and with a million different outcomes. People who decide that their mistakes actually made them a better person, people who get a second chance to put things right and who live happily ever after, you get the idea.

There may be some fairly large mistakes you've made that you wish you could undo, maybe some small ones as well? The discussion that got me thinking about this originally was that I should have joined the alliance I'm in now on Cybernations much sooner, since it does seem to be a much better fit for me than many of the ones I have been in through my two and a half years in the game, while not technically a mistake as such it would none the less be something that given the opportunity to change I would do so.

There is a real life example which sticks in my mind, there is something I should say first though as the person this involves does tend to read this website: I am not saying that you made the wrong decision, I think that under the circumstances you made the right decision and possibly the only decision available to you, what I am saying here is that given the opportunity to change things I would change them so that you never had to make the decision to begin with.

To those of you not familiar with this situation, the above is probably going to have made it sound worse than it is, but it's something that needed to be gotten out of the way. Just after I left school (which would make this about 6 and a half years ago now) there was a friend of mine who was very upset about certain choices I made and as a result stopped talking to me until around this time last year. Now as I said, under the circumstances I think she made the right choice and there wasn't much else she could have done, but given the chance to go back and change things I would make sure that she never had to make that choice to begin with and who knows what that might have changed about the next few years?

Of course the flip side to all this (and one which again, depending on the director, Hollywood either ignores or explores) is what differences you could create in the future by changing the past? Focusing on the Cybernations example for a moment, if I had joined USN back in 2007 would I still be there now? Would I have fitted in as well then as I do now? Maybe then wouldn't have been the right time for me to join and if I had done so I wouldn't have got on so well with some of the people I do now (Hi Cora :) ) Or perhaps the opposite is true? Perhaps if I had joined back then it would have been better for me than it is now? This is the conundrum that one is faced with in these situations. You can change your mistakes, but will the change you make result in a better or worse present than the one you live in now? Something to think about I guess.....I suppose what I'm saying is, if you get a chance to undo past mistakes, make sure you have a chance to put things back the way they were if it messes something up.

IRC Quote of the day
Some very interesting ones this week...

Announcing todays bronze trophy.....Chinchilla330 for 'Fun' - Chinchillas first entry into our QoTD
Announcing todays silver trophy.....Chinchilla330/Rylejed/Vlad for 'resurrection' - This is a first time entry for Rylejed
todays gold trophy goes to.....Vladisvok/Borimir for 'True Story' - Borimirs first trophy

Congratulations to todays winners, the updated score table can be found in the downloads section.

Quote of the day
Todays QoTD brought to you by Evanescence:
“I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone, But though you're still with me, I've been alone all along”


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