Life Should Be Like

There is a sci-fi show called "7 Days". Besides being like a normal sci-fi show with stilted acting and seventh grade dialog, it does have an interesting story line. When there is a major disaster such as the death of a major figure, an attack by bad guys or some other event which with hindsight might be averted, a secret agent using a special machine goes back in time but limited to seven days before the jump to try to avert the disaster. Funny, they always seem to be able to make things better except for some social issues like secret agent trying to hit on science lady and never seeming to get it right. Now, I am not here to debate the ethics of changing history and of course I am not going to explore the dilemma of running into yourself when you go back in time. What I am thinking about today is the do-over. What if you could go back a short period of time and have a do-over ... redo some actions that you might have wanted to do differently with hindsight?

Or maybe life should be like a shoe? When your shoe gets worn down, or wears out on the inside ... you take it the shoemaker and he fixes it and throws in a high grade polish. Look your shoes are better than new. They have a brand new level heal, interior wear fixed and they are still broken in. You felt bad, out of sorts and now with a visit to the shoemaker you are better than new. You have fixed all your weak spots.

Life could be like golf. In golf, for the amateurs, if you have a bad shot you can take a "mulligan", a do-over, re-do that shot and the bad shot never happened, does not count against you. You screw up, you said the wrong think, you wore jeans when it was suit and tie ... oops, mulligan.

How come in life you only get one shot? Doesn't that seem unfair? Why don't other people give you a chance to fix a mistake without holding it against you? How come when that person says ..."its okay, we'll just forget it, like it never happened" and then some time later, sitting at a party that same ... oh let's forget it person proceeds to tell everyone the dumb thing you did ... everyone giggling at your stupidity.

So, are you one who allows mulligans or are you the one just waiting to bring up that dumb thing just to embarrass that person who shared with you?