Life should have mulligans.
Wouldn’t you love to be able to say, “Oops! I didn’t mean to do that. Can I please have a do over?” Alas, life isn’t quite that accommodating. We have to live with the consequences of our words and actions.
It’s not that there is anything in particular I would like to do again. Okay, maybe there is. I want to rewind when I started submitting my writing for publication. I know the work still needed to “grow.” I have been finishing the rewrites of Murphy’s Law, and I would love having a mulligan to get the new manuscript into the hands of any editors who might have the old one.
The story that finished second in Heart of the Rockies hardly exists anymore. It is much, much better. But I refuse to live with regrets over opportunities gone by. So — onward and upward. I plan to never be satisfied with what I have achieved, and I always plan to improve.
Life doesn’t give us mulligans. But it does offer us more chances.