Naka on Wood

Missed Opportunities,

simplybasic:

There are a million quotes and saying about opportunity and risk. In order to gain something, you have to take a chance.  Otherwise, you’ll never get anywhere.  Every person you meet is a potential something—friend, lover, confidant, partner in crime, or that long-lost sister or brother that fate forgot to give you. It’s rather daunting to think about it; there’s potential in every chance meeting, in every casual acquaintance, in every little accident that life throws your way. The trouble is, if you’re not paying attention, you might miss what might’ve been. You might miss a connection, an opportunity, a possible something.

People always says you can’t lose what you never had, but I think I’m inclined to disagree.  If any opportunity isn’t seized, it is still lost. You’ve lost that potential, that maybe, that experience that might’ve been. So, yes, it’s not exactly like losing your keys.  Instead, it’s like losing the phone number of someone you like, but never had the chance to call.  It was there, in your grasp—that maybe—and now, it’s not.

Can we ever get back to that place? That place where something is possible?  It depends, really, on the situation, the players, and a myriad of circumstance.  Things change, people change, lives change. So, you might get a second chance (or a third, or a fourth), but it’s the first chance. It’s a new one; it’s different.

It could also mean we’re missing out on potential stalkers but the way you look at it sounds alot better than me.

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