What if...? (poem) by Ed Matlack on AuthorsDen

Reviewed on January 27, 2005

Thanks for this insightful eye opener Ed!!

Thanks for being one of those "What if's" that I have met to make me cope and laugh!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by William Bonilla

Reviewed on January 27, 2005

Thank God for long distance runs
Big Guy
You should make more of them
They seem to truly
bring out the poetic master that you really are

William .....Peace Brother

Reviewed by SHERRY HEIM

Reviewed on January 27, 2005

The questions of our direction is one that I believe we all ponder at some time or another. We are here now, and that is what is really important. How we deal with what life has delivered to us will prove our ultimate desire to survive and thrive or just eke through the experience. Nobody ever said that the road to enlightenment would be short or easy...you just have to keep plugging along. Very nice write!
Take care,
Sherry

Reviewed by Katy Walsvik (Reader)

Reviewed on January 27, 2005

I never go there... never think like this. Interestingly, though, I was entirely captivated by your journey through the "what if" maze... Actually, I go from a different angle, I guess... thinking, 'hmmmm... I'm exactly where I am because of everything before this...' and then I put one Size Five foot in front of the other, pack my little lunch, and set off to see where I'll end up next! Life is an adventure. You write philosophically with panache, Eddie M... Lovely! (smile) katy xox.

Reviewed by Daniel McTaggart

Reviewed on January 27, 2005

I don't think you would run away, Ed. You don't look like the running type to me. You could walk away. And then you wouldn't be all sweaty and tired. Just be sure to pack plenty of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Reviewed by Mr. Ed

Reviewed on January 27, 2005

I play the 'What If' game all the time, and I usually end up deciding that some of these choices were really not choices at all - they were just what life somehow had in store for us.

My favorite one is: What if my first wife had agreed to re-locate to Seattle with me because of a job I had accepted there? We would probably have still ended up divorced, but I would never have met Rebecca, or any of the animals that I have now.

Mind-boggling stuff, my friend.

Reviewed by Anna Marie Fritz (Reader)

Reviewed on January 27, 2005

We seem to be in like moods,today, 'meditatively,' Ed.
Even if all your questions don't get answers...keep taking
the meds...like I do. "What ifs" are the bane of the writer's
life. What would we do without them?

Reviewed by Sue Hess

Reviewed on January 27, 2005

well we know about the rufuz part anyway...i often wonder about the other branch of the road too...would we be the same person if this or that had changed. i think you would rise to the top regardless

Reviewed by Kate Clifford (Reader)

Reviewed on January 27, 2005

If change does not occurr no one grows. Sometimes events in our lives that seem negative is positive in the way it changes our flow of direction. Like the thinking process you have used in this. Great write.

Reviewed by Judy Lloyd (Reader)

Reviewed on January 27, 2005

I for one hope you do not run away and like everything you post. But I ask myself the same questions.