I enjoyed the story (as always). As much as I would have loved the second chance to relive what was gone, I understand his hesitation only because it might mean erasing his present life and thus his children would never have been born. Their lives matter too! 😀
Good story. I empathize with Quinn. As much as I would love to leave my 77 y/o self here, and go back to when I was 25, knowing that, unless I made exactly the same choices, everything I love now - my kids, my Grandkidlets - would cease to exist. I would also have to decline. To everything there is a season. I had mine. It’s someone else’s turn.
My Mom turned 90 today… she said to me a few days ago, “I’ve made so many mistakes in my life” as she was discussing this upcoming birthday… I thought about her remark for a minute or so and responded with “but if you could go back and change your decisions you’d lose much of what you love having in your life”… she then thought for a few seconds, got a big smile on her face and said, “you’re right! I guess I wouldn’t change anything.”
Loved it and hated it. We all do the “if only” shit all the time. And none of us have a clue whether we would or wouldn’t, should or shouldn’t. Thought provoking, as usual, but a piss off, also sometimes as usual.
"Electricity passed between their flesh, a telegraph carrying decades-old memories."
A beautiful line, Bill. A little gem.
I wonder how many of us would like to be 17 again. I, personally, would prefer going back to age 40 -- when I finally had a little sense...
I'm so mistrustful of decisions that need to be made at a moment's notice! Poor Quinn.
I enjoyed the story (as always). As much as I would have loved the second chance to relive what was gone, I understand his hesitation only because it might mean erasing his present life and thus his children would never have been born. Their lives matter too! 😀
Good story. I empathize with Quinn. As much as I would love to leave my 77 y/o self here, and go back to when I was 25, knowing that, unless I made exactly the same choices, everything I love now - my kids, my Grandkidlets - would cease to exist. I would also have to decline. To everything there is a season. I had mine. It’s someone else’s turn.
My Mom turned 90 today… she said to me a few days ago, “I’ve made so many mistakes in my life” as she was discussing this upcoming birthday… I thought about her remark for a minute or so and responded with “but if you could go back and change your decisions you’d lose much of what you love having in your life”… she then thought for a few seconds, got a big smile on her face and said, “you’re right! I guess I wouldn’t change anything.”
Just as sad as the first time!
Oh Quinn, you were so silly. I am in at a similar stage of my life and would give up everything for a second chance with my love.
I really liked this one, but I would have jumped right through. A chance to live those same years over again
Loved it and hated it. We all do the “if only” shit all the time. And none of us have a clue whether we would or wouldn’t, should or shouldn’t. Thought provoking, as usual, but a piss off, also sometimes as usual.