Today, on Easter Sunday, I am inspired by the wonderfully funny Cal Wilson and her Easter column on rebirth.
It's a wonderful piece about the what you would do if you were reborn. Like a lot of people I get asked "Do you have any regrets?" and my answer draws upon- of all things- some comments made by Captain Picard in "Star Trek: The Next Generation". In the episode "Tapestry" he states that once he started unravelling the threads of his life the whole tapestry collapsed. It's very true. We are shaped by the good AND the bad incidents in our life. As such I would generally have no "real regrets". Neither does Cal. Here's some of the things I would do differently if reborn...
- I wouldn't have lent my Starlight Express cd to Bruce Alcorn- which he then lent to someone else who then lent it to someone else and now is heck knows where.
- I would have fessed up Morag that it wasn't Gus who started listening to the Starlight Express tape in music class.
-When I filled in my application form for "Wheel Of Fortune" I wouldn't have written "Date with Adriana" as my number one choice of prize. Reckon that's what kept me off the show.
- Would have told Suzanne Dyer that putting me between a piccolo and a trumpet in the pit for "How To Succeed" is a REALLY stupid idea which might cost me some of my hearing.
- Perhaps I wouldn't have crapped on about how great The Brady Bunch were when I was studying at Flinders Street in the mid-90's.
Of course, if it was rebirth today (as in my day of birth was 8/4/2012) I could grow up blissfully ignorant of Justin Bieber and when he's 40 and checking out of rehab for the 10th time I'll just see him as a washed up hasbeen. I can listen to all the music today and say in 20 years time- "Man, they just never made it as good as LMFAO did they?". I'll bawk in disbelief of a time when things weren't downloaded and the internet never existed. That'll be like ancient history!
On this day, I hope you have a wonderful Easter whatever your religion, race or creed.
