Everybody has made mistakes and misjudgments during the course of their lives that they would like to change. It is interesting, by going back and doing it all over again, we would change our experience and therefore possibly change our personalities. After all, we all are a compilation of our life’s experiences.
If I could do a lot of the things over again that I wanted to have come out differently, it would be the things that got me in trouble or caused me the most embarrassment.
I can remember going into a store with my mother and my brother Rantz. Most of the scene is fuzzy because of our ages. We were probably about three or four years old. I can’t remember taking the pack of gum out of the store, but I do remember giving some to Rantz and then being caught by Mom.
Oh, the terror of having to go back in the store with Mom and having to tell the storeowner that I took it! I can still feel the agony of the moment. If I hadn’t been caught or it had been excused, I might not remember the experience. Perhaps it would have changed my character. It is now going on thirty-something years since that event in Houston, Texas. That seems to be long enough to think about that pack of Juicy Fruit gum. It’s no wonder that I prefer Spearmint.
If we can just try and teach our children and the youth that surround us how important it is to take a little time and think of all of the consequences of our actions. Just one small point to have them absorb and build as part of the personality traits that make up their persona.
I haven’t had such a hard time in life as to want to be a Blues Singer, or even come close to qualifying, especially when I hear what others have had to go through. When I look back and think about the things I would have changed, I come up with things that were seemingly trivial. I guess my life wouldn’t even qualify as a very good country music song…
Shannon R Killman
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