On occasional Wednesdays, I offer tips for adulthood.
A while back on Facebook, a friend of mine posted the following status update:
“If you could go back and etch-a-sketch away some part of your life, what would it be?”
Wow. What a great question. I’ve always believed that regret is a central component of adulthood. But many of our regrets are really longings, so we wouldn’t want to erase them, because they define who we are.
In contrast, I love the concept of the etch-a-sketch – that iconic childhood toy – to capture those aspects of our past that we’d truly like to eliminate so that even the vestiges of their imprint don’t remain.
So I got to thinking about what would be on my etch-a-sketch list. Here’s what I came up with.
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