decisions

 There's this meme that goes around, and basically all it says is "one decision could change your life" it's referring to drunk driving, but it's actually been something that I've been thinking about lately. 

Where we are right now is because of the string of choices we made, (or choices other people made and how we decided to move forward in consequence). 

For instance, I still live in Florida 3 years after moving here when the plan was to be here simply for a few months. I very nearly made the decision to live in Charleston SC, and then I almost moved back home to the outer banks, and I've almost decided to move to Raleigh to be with my bff and her kid.  But I'm still here.
Each time the opportunity presented itself, I prepared, even packed, got a job, but then when the moment came I looked at the life path that I would be choosing and I couldn't. It's not that any of them would have been wrong, but there was something that made it so I didn't feel right.

Rewind further, I could have stayed in Louisiana. There was no reason that I had to leave, besides the fact that I didn't see my future there. One decision away from an entirely different life.

And before all that, it feels like a snowball effect, so many decisions, and every single one of them would have lead to a completely different life, different people surrounding me, even a different me. Who's to say that down one of those paths life would have been easier, happier, more successful. But the way I see it, I can't regret any of the decisions, even though in retrospect some of them may have not been ideal. But I wonder, who would I have been if I had made different decisions, and where would I be now?