Day 09: If I could start my life over

Everyone piles up mistakes and you (hopefully) learn and grow from them. But what if you got to do it all again, knowing then what you know now?

I'd enjoy my childhood more. Build many more Lego towers before I let them all collapse to build something else. Marry more power rangers and transformers action figures. And watch out for other weird 90s anime licensed for public broadcast television.

I'd also engage in the biggest loves of my life earlier. Hockey and programming, and I'd find tutors to push me over the edge, and learn to play guitar at a young age, so that I'd master it by the time I turned 20.

I'd read more books. I only really started becoming a bookworm around the seventh grade and I regret not finishing more books as a kid, to really solidify my love of reading in those early years. So more novels, and I'd definitely have read Harry Potter much sooner.

I'd put myself out there more. I was kind of in my shell in highschool and when dating, I haven't been the best at making the first move. So that's what I'd do.

I'd treasure my friends more, even the ones I know will leave me soon after, and tell them how awesomesauce they are before they're too far out of my life.

And I'd probably boop my sister on the nose a lot more.

But that's just my if only. Instead, I think it's better to focus on what I can do right now.