Do it right, or don't do it at all

[unixronin]

jenkitty asks, If you could get one "do-over" -- that is, if you could go back in time and change one decision or action you've ever made, what would it be?  What do you think would be different now, in your psyche or circumstances?  Don't reply directly in my LJ; post this meme, with your answer to the question, in your own LJ and post the link as a reply here.

This is a question I've considered many times.  I think as long as it's restricted to one action or decision of mine, then there's really nothing there's any point in changing, because I feel I've made so many wrong or simply bad decisions in my life that if I went back and tried to change any of them, it's far more likely than not that I'd just make matters worse.  I have hated the vast majority of my life, in more ways and for more reasons than I know how to explain, many of them not even things I've ever had the least control over or the power to do anything about.  I don't need to go screwing it up even worse.  However careful I was, it'd probably turn out that in taking my best shot at making things better, I'd just second-guessed myself on one of the few things that (whether I was aware of it or not) actually turned out for the best in the first place.

Now if I could just go back and retroactively edit myself out of the Universe altogether, that would be very tempting.  Sometimes you just have to look at something and admit that you screwed it up so badly, you'd have done better to leave it alone in the first place.

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Now if I could just go back and retroactively edit myself out of the Universe altogether, that would be very tempting.

Ummm, I don't think you want to do that. See, if it weren't for you, I probably wouldn't have met k_crow, and then I wouldn't have ended up in Seattle, and, well, see, we just figured out how to Take Over The World And Set It Free, and, well, see, that won't happen if you go edit yourself out.

You think I'm kidding. Just you wait.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

But, Brain, where are we gonna get four hundred pairs of rubber underwear and a bulldozer at this time of night?

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Rubber pants? Under a KILT?!

The bulldozer is easy.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, you know .... a kilt can get awful drafty on a motorcycle.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Kilt on a motorsickle? what, are you crazy?

Wait, don't answer that.... ;)