IF YOU COULD DO IT ALL AGAIN

IF YOU COULD DO IT ALL AGAIN

Laura:
After I finished high school, I just wasn’t ready to go on college.
I really needed some time
to figure out what I wanted to do. I had saved up a lot of money;
so I used it to travel through
Eastern Europe for six months. It was an amazing experience and
I learned a lot about myself.
Once I got home, I was ready to start college. Now the only trouble is ,
I don’t have enough moneyto pay for it. I should have thought more
about my finances before I took such an expensive trip.


Evan:
By the time I was 22, I was the head of  the public relations
department in a major telecommunications
Company. Now, I’m a vice president. I love the excitement,
the status, the security and the money. But sometimes
I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder, “What am
I doing?” Who am I? When I was growing up,
I always thought I would become a teacher or an artist. Sometimes
it seems like I’ve got everything and yet
I’ve got nothing.

Rachel:
Soon after Brad and I got married, his company transferred him
to San Francisco. I had a very successful
Career, but I quit my job and we moved. Brad has been transferred
twice since then. Now I work as an office temp.
Sometimes I think if I had been a little more selfish, maybe
I could have done more with my career, too.
But Brad really means a lot to me. As soon as I met him, I knew
I would spend the rest of my life with him.

Exercise: Write the correct name to answer these questions.

1. Whose success could be described as?
a. financial success
b.The courage to explore new things
c. Hapiness in relationship

2. Whose regrets might be explained in terms of…
a. being shortsighted
b. sacrificing what one wants for someone else
c. losing oneself to achieve what others see as success.

Questions for Discussion:
In your life, what would you do differently? What would you do the same?
Which of the three people seems the happiest? Who seems the least happy?
Some psychologist say that people today have more regrets because they have
So many choices and more pressure. What do you think these psychologist mean?
Do you agree?
Do you have any regrets about things you’ve done or haven’t done?
What if…..you could live your life over again? Everyone has some things
they would do differently and some they would do exactly the same.

What does it mean?