Looking Back at the Past: The Yearning for Second Chances

Michael J. Vowles
5 min readAug 24, 2021

If you could go back, would you? Or better yet- what would it mean to you to have a second chance at something?

There’s something so compelling and enduring about these questions, and yet they’re purely imaginative exercises. The moment you answer, you realize with a bitter sigh that you’ll never actually get the chance to return to a given point in your past to try…

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Michael J. Vowles

Freelance writer, occasional traveler, full-time ice cream taster. I run a blog at https://tumbleweedwrites.com where I ramble with enthusiasm.