Happy New Year
It’s that time of the year again. The end of this one and the beginning of the next. Does anyone ever hope to fast forward his life and go 1, 2, 3 or even 10 years into the future? I doubt anybody would hope for that. Maybe except for the little kid who can’t wait to grow up to drink and smoke legally.
But when we talk about travelling back in time to the good old days, I’m sure we’ll get trains of people queuing up to try this amazing machine. Maybe something similar to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall machine would be feasible before we all pass on. You can travel to Mars or the past , all in your mind. But what if you could go back physically and undo things you’d rather not have done and do the things you should have done?
That would be nice, wouldn’t it? Or would that be terrible? I could lose all my friends overnight. Or maybe they’d all lose me. I would certainly have gone back 15 years to sell my Hougang shop for ridiculous prices. I would certainly have set up a town practice and avoided all those years of stressful, traumatic, depressing headache dentistry. And I would have certainly gone travelling to more places and not have wasted my time and money doing “charity work” for undeserving people.
Looks like we all have our regrets. But I doubt that time machine is going to be available any time soon. We’ll just have to aim and work for a better life as we move on. We can only keep saying “happy new year” as the regrets pile up. Even if we can’t undo our mistakes or bad decisions, we have to do something about the future and hopefully not repeat past mistakes.
Now for the obligatory new year resolutions.
1. New staff, better business
2. Bring my elder son on his first adventure holiday
3. Publish a book
