What Is – Prompt #50

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Looking back there are times when I ask myself, what if. What if I went left instead of right? What if I had had the courage to say yes instead of no? What if I had taken that last step instead of hesitating, only to watch opportunity slip out of my reach? What if I had just kept my mouth shut. 

What might have been if I had made different choices?

We could ‘what if’ ourselves to death, but I think the question you should ask yourself is would I be the same person I am today? I think we are here for a reason. It could be small. Something that affects one decision for one person that may lead to something bigger. Ir it may be something world changing. Something that affects each and every one if us. 

We may never know the what might have been. We do know the now, and for better or worse we should make the best of what is.

Copyright © 2016 Heidi Barnes

This is for writing prompt #50 on the website Writing Outside the Lines.

Drowning in Questions

Drowning in a sea of damnation.

Trying to keep my head above the waves of what ifs,

Choking on the if onlys.

Wanting to know was it me who was not enough

Or was it you who did not care enough?

How do I survive this endless circle of blame,

Step away from what cannot be changed?

How do I walk away

When hope still lingers we can survive?

How do I let go and once again become

Whole?

~ © 2013 Heidi Barnes

From a prompt on Kellie Elmore’s Website.