head in the clouds

I've been reading this book all day today called Pretty Little Mistakes by Heather McElhatton. It's one of those alternate ending books, where you start off with one beginning and work your way through endless possibilities. It's amazing to really think about the choices you make in life and all the different things that happen or could have happened due to your choices. It's really been making me contemplate on my own personal choices in life. It's odd to really think how much different your life could be if things weren't the way they are. Everyday we are posed with different choices in life. Sometimes it's easy not to really think about the consequences of simple decisions that end up changing your life completely. I guess the best way to describe it is a complete mind fuck. It has really made me think all day about the "what ifs" of life. Like what if I would have stayed in my small ass hick town I grew up in? Or what if I wouldn't have dropped out of college? Stayed with my ex? I have never regretted a single thing that I have done with my life. Not one. It's easy to say that but I've always been a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. I chose the path I did because that was the path I was suppose to take. If I wouldn't have done that I probably wouldn't be here writing on this blog! I definitely wouldn't be where I'm at with my life. I'd be some knocked up chick, with my 3rd child on the way, desperately wanting more out of life. Either that or a snobby hair dresser... Jesus I don't know what would be worse for me! It seems odd to think I wouldn't be who I am today. That I wouldn't know the people I do or think that way I feel I always have. Could things be better if life was different? Of course, but they could also be worse. I don't believe in destiny really. I don't think that we are destined to do certain things or that certain things happen because of some plan from where the hell ever. I think we are all posed with choices and those choices make your life. That life isn't some damn predetermined plot, that just doesn't make sense. Even though it's normal to wonder about how things could have been, I feel so happy with my life. Yes, I have struggled as everyone has. I disappointed my parents by dropping out of college. I hurt people that I loved at one point because it didn't feel right. I know that my choices have lead me to where I am and if I didn't do these things I wouldn't be me, god damn it! I guess that's why it's so interesting to read stuff like this. It makes you actually use your brain. Yeah... I'm going to go ponder life more, although it's snowing here (yea wtf!) and it's hard to think when anger consumes you!