So the topic due this week is “What would you do if you have a second, completely separate life?” Would you do everything the same, or would you do everything completely different. Not that I haven’t though about this a billion times since I was in the 6th grade.

How does one have a second life and make it completely different from the first one? Thinking about this, my mind thought about second chances. What if, just out of the blue time "blinked" and I found myself back at who I was at the age of four. No longer would I be sitting in the lazy boy recliner typing this journal entry with the normal house lights off, my dogs dozing around my chair, and the lights of my fiber optic Christmas tree twinkling like a pretend Aurora Borealis from the tips of it's synthetic pine needles. Just like that it blinked! And I'm made to repeat life all over again until I'm twenty-three, again! No way back, only forward... Which is a really strange thought. But there's a catch, I can remember ever thing from before time blinked. This isn't like the butterfly effect. Literally I would have no choice but to do it all again. No warping back to the future. Would I do everything the same? Well I'd have to know what I did before, before I could decide if I'd do it all the same again right?

So here comes a bit of Flash Back with a bit of my history. What if time blinks back to my very first chaotic moment. When I lived in the Philippines during 1991 (if my math is right) and Mount Pinatubo erupted, and there were series of earth quakes, and no time for me to think about what just happened. I can only react to the fact that I'm a now twenty-three year trapped in a four years body allowing myself to be toted around by my mother as we evacuated the base, the earthquakes, the ash, and tropical storm Yunya- who thought it would be a good time to make an appearance. Through being transported in a ch-47d chinook helicopter thing, finding myself on one those huge Navi boats, and finally ending up in California- making our way to our last Destination by car to Colorado. Where the story really begins.

Would I keep my life the same? OH HECK NO! I would definitely be making some changes. And you're would probably wonder how a four year old-who will be five at the time this story really takes place would have the power to make changes. Because it wasn't to long after that my parents got divorced, and socials workers working with our family wanted to know what me and my brother had to say, especially when it came down to the custody battle.

With all my memories intact and my absorbent child-like brain, I might take up the violin, or perhaps take up singing lessons. I might beg my mom to take out stocks on AOL, but I know she wouldn't. LOL Okay There would be a lot of things I would do. But for sure the friends I have right now, I would make sure to contact them in any way possible. Good friends are to hard to pass up during any blink of time.

I guess for the sheer excitement of it all I would see what it's like to walk a different path from the one I have now. Just to see where I ended up when I'm back at my current age. I possibly wouldn't even have the same career choice.