QUESTION:

If you could go back in time and change one thing, what would you change?

I've heard this a lot over time. Regret usually the precursor; for why else would you change anything? I've also spread my fair share of statements about regrets and the inability to change set patterns of behaviour.

Still, I wouldn't change a single thing. Not even the worst of my habits and the direst of days. I fear deviation. I react in terror at the mere thought of not being right here, right now. This me: The result of my past everything.

Outside of myself? Nada. For the same concerns: Any deviation in world events... (however wretched they might be, and how tempting to prevent them) what if the future turned out even worse than the mess it's in right now? My good intentions may, like those butterfly wings, create a hurricane of change- for the worst!

Maybe there's a name for this phobia; in which case I ought to add it to that long list I compiled.

Would YOU dare change a thing?