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Dear Reader,
Suzanne's on holiday, so today we're running "The Best Of."
My postman wishes he would have taken a less safe path in life. I asked him one day if he liked his job, because he always seems a little bit on the edge about it. No hesitation, he didn't have to think about his answer. "When I was young, a bunch of my friends went to Vegas. Some of them are dealers now and they love their jobs. Me, I took the safe route, good benefits and all, but no, I don't really like my job. I wish I would have taken a different route." I suggested to him that it's never too late, but I could tell that in his mind, it was.
"I wish I would have..."
Thankfully, I rarely find myself making that statement. It's not that I've always made the best or right choices in my life--far from it. But when I look back over the path that I've taken so far, I wouldn't change a thing--even the bad things--because some of the really horrible choices that I've suffered through, they serve me well today.
When I see someone making an obviously dumb choice in their life and I hear others around me saying, "How could they think like that?" Well, I know firsthand how someone could think like that, because I used to think the same way. Call me crazy, because I was. Ask me why I had such idiotic thinking, why sometimes I ended up in such bad situations, I don't know for sure. But I do know that anything can happen to anyone.
And since most of it's happened to me, I think sometimes it makes it easier for me to talk to anyone, about anything. Because chances are, I've been there.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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