I met a former student and her mother coming out of a store here in town. I thought the mom looked familiar and when I saw the Oklahoma car tag, I asked if they were from Tahlequah. “Yes,” she answered. I told her my name and asked if she had a little girl in my classroom. Well, that little girl was with her, driving the car, grown into a lovely adult, and I would never have recognized this young woman as the child I taught so many years ago. What did I teach her? How does she remember me? Sometimes, I wonder…
If I had chosen a different vocation, been published sooner than I was, chosen one path instead of another, spoken out, kept quiet, toiled uphill instead of coasting down, been more courageous, been less out-spoken, what would have been the results? Sometimes, I wonder…
Life is full of “what ifs” and “if onlys” and sometimes I’m sure we all wonder…about a lot of things. Opportunities come and go. An opportunity may become the door to another possibility. I can only hope and pray that something I have taught or written or experienced has blessed the life of another, in some way, great or small. I’ve heard people say that if they had life to live again, they wouldn’t do anything differently. This amazes me. My question is, “Didn’t you learn anything the first time around? ” I think wisdom comes from experience. The important thing is what we do with all that we gain through the years. I’m very glad for many of the choices and decisions I made, but if I had made different choices and decisions, what would have been the outcome? Sometimes I wonder…
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