On the turning away

[drwex]

Ganked from skreeky: list five turning points in your life, decisions that you made, and what you think would be different if you had decided a different way.

Implicit in this is the idea that you had to be old enough and empowered enough to make meaningful decisions. For example, my parents moved in the middle of my high school years. The change was wholescale and wrenching. But I wasn't consulted and had no meaningful way to influence the decision short of something drastic like running away, which was out of the question for me at that moment in life.

This is sort of tricky, as it means putting oneself back into that time and mindset as well as honestly trying to envision what else might have been. Alternate futures are generally unknowable, so it mostly comes down to "things that would not have been." Like, mostly, my whole life.

I'll elaborate these later, but for meme's sake I'll list five here:
Cornell
Going (back to) Cali
Every five years a miracle occurs
Boredom != Opportunity
The pat on the bed