Many things can happen in 6 years. You can:
graduate high school
finish college
lose friends
gain friends
lose parents
become a parent
get married
get divorced
buy a house
lose a house
So many things can be ruined and accomplished in 6 years that it is impossible to track all of them.
This topic came to my mind when I was having a conversation with my best friend Vicky. We were reminiscing about high school and previous years. One of the events that marked our youth forever was the death of Rogelio, a dear friend. We were about 15 or 16 years old. He died in a motorcycle crash in Mexico and we were devastated. He died on Christmas day and 2010 marked his 6 year anniversary.
It was so hard to imagine why a young life was taken. It did not seem fair to us that his life was taken at such an early age.
Remembering joy and tragedy showed us how much we have grown and matured these five years. We went from being crazy and a little out of control teens to responsible and hard working young adults.
We came up with a question while revisiting the past:
"If we could go back 6 years, what would we tell the person we were 6 years ago? What advice or reprimands would we give that person?"
Would we tell our selves not to buy that overly priced gucci bag with all our childhood savings?
Would we tell our selves not to get that hair cut or hair color?
Would we tell our selves not to buy face cleansing products with benzoyl peroxide because we are allergic to them and would swell our face to the point of keeping us from taking our senior picture in high school? (my own personal experience)
Or would we tell our selves not to cry over that guy because he would have greasy hair and very bad breath 6 years later.
I know I would show the current picture of that guy to the 16 year old me. Believe me it would have saved me an amazing amount of time!
Is it possible that we would make a list of guys or girls that made our life impossible... who broke our heart... who took our boyfriend/girlfriend...who made us cry.... or who in some way or another lowered our self esteem or self value? Would we get that list and show it to our 6 year younger self and avoid heart ache, humiliation and guilt?
Or is it even more possible that we would be able to prevent the pain we casted upon others?
Many things can be done in 6 years.
Unfortunately, we are 6 years too late to change numerous amounts of things that have happen to us.
But the next time you are thinking of regrets and failure, think about this:
"We are early and on time to start the next 6 years of our lives".
