Your question is an easy one for me... and I think I already know what price would be paid for my wish to come true.
In a nutshell: Something very, very bad happened to me in my past that I wished had never happened, and it so shaped my outlook on life that for decades I thought I could never get over the memory... and so I often wished I could go back in time and do something different so that I could avoid that pain.
The thing is, looking back on the incident in question, I know with absolute certainty that if I had somehow avoided the bad thing in question, someone I care about would have paid the price in my place... and knowing that I had someone close to me suffer in my stead would have made the memory so, *SO* much worse.
An excellent, thought-provoking piece. Thanks so much for posting this!
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In a nutshell: Something very, very bad happened to me in my past that I wished had never happened, and it so shaped my outlook on life that for decades I thought I could never get over the memory... and so I often wished I could go back in time and do something different so that I could avoid that pain.
The thing is, looking back on the incident in question, I know with absolute certainty that if I had somehow avoided the bad thing in question, someone I care about would have paid the price in my place... and knowing that I had someone close to me suffer in my stead would have made the memory so, *SO* much worse.
An excellent, thought-provoking piece. Thanks so much for posting this!