A few years ago I wrote a fictional story about a subject I’m all up about… confusion. For all non-Spanish speakers, I’ll give you a small rundown of it. The story is about a teenage girl whose life is turned upside down by her ‘adult’ (20 something year old) boyfriend. He becomes possessive and obsessive, and drags her out of her friends, family, and life she knows of. To avoid making this narrative any longer, at the end, boyfriend dumps the girl for no reason and she spends all summer wondering what she did wrong.

As summer goes by and classes resume, she feels she’s still not over her now ex-boyfriend, but she finds out he impregnated a girl and moved to another town. The catch of the story is that, girl cries for days and days, and she doesn’t even know if she’s crying because she feels sorry for him, or because she wishes deeply she could be that pregnant girl, only to be near him. That’s what I’m about to write today, a very subject I think I know.

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Have you ever ended your day thinking what would have happened if you woke up with your left foot instead of your right? If you had a healthy breakfast like an apple instead of that morning taco? Maybe you would just have had a little more energy through the day… How about bigger things like, what if you had said something different at that important meeting? Maybe you would have lost that big contract. How about things a little more in my experience… what if you had just treated differently that one person you really like. Maybe things between you two would be better right now. I always wonder.

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