Terry's 3M's

Whoa! I didn't clean out the mailbox the other day, and now I have over 3M of stuff in there. I hate to see what my zdnetmail.com addy has in it! I guess I'd either better get to reading my mail more often or giving up the mailing lists. But, I'm like a little kid. I am loathe to unsubscribe because I'm afraid that I might miss something--like a good url or something.

I was reading last night (like that comes as a big shock) and I got to wondering. In Koontz' Strange Highways, Joey is sure that everything went wrong for him when he took a certain road that was different from the path he normally took. Twenty years later he comes to the same crossroads and has the irrational feeling that if this time he takes the road he should have taken on that other rainy night 20 years before, things will turn around for him again. I left him standing beside the car in the rain at the crossroads.

Later, I was watching a tape of Deep Space Nine. Sisko had a hard choice to make. Give up being a Starfleet Captain and listen to the Prophets or follow orders and run a mission into Cardassian territory. He chose to remain a Starfleet captain...and Jadzia dies.

A coincidence? Probably. But, I couldn't help wondering. All of life is decision-making. I know that I've made some bad decisions in the past. And I've made some good ones, too. But, is there a real crossroads in everyone's life? If there is, what if the wrong road was chosen? Can things be redeemed or remedied? Can the right road be found again? And if it is found, what new obstacles or detours will one find?