Time

I'm listening to Stephan Hawkins book - A Brief History of Time. It's interesting and fun to think about time and space and how it all works together. Could we go back or forward in time if we could travel faster than the speed of light? Who knows?

But right now, we can't go back in time to change our decisions. We can fix some things, change our ways, and make some things better. However there are things that can never be altered. I was sitting in a hospital one time after my Mom had knee replacement. She was in a lot of pain and under pain meds. I was thinking at the time that there was no way to change the decision to have the operation. It can't be undone. If something went wrong now it went wrong. Nothing we could do would change that. As it happens everything went well and she is happy about having the operation. The point is a few decisions in life are irrevocable and those are the ones we have to be careful about. We can't decide and just see how it goes. I can't say what those decisions are for anyone but myself. But, "Let's be careful out there." We have to take chances and go for it sometimes, but I hope we do our best to make the right choices and take responsibility for them. And be willing to accept the consequences. I hope I'm not starting to sound to existential, I believe in a moral code, but many people would benefit by accepting responsibility for their own decisions. I'm planning on working on it anyway. Sorry about the rambling nature of this post. It's the mood I'm in.