The Life You COULD Have Had

Roy Carter
2 min readJan 22, 2024

Could you have had an alternative life if only you had turned a different corner?

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Let me ask you something.

Do you believe in an afterlife?

I guess one way or another we are all going to find out, right?

What if we get to the end of our life though, and we lay there and ask ourselves a question?

The question is this…

Could my life have been different?

Which leads you to further questions, as you lay there waiting for the end.

Could I have had an alternative life if only I had turned a different corner?

What if, when I reached that point in my life when I said, ‘I wish there were more to life than this’, what if I had decided at that point to actually start doing something about changing the way my life was for the better?

What if, instead of continuing to live a life that was sucking the very soul out of me at that point, what if I had instead started to create a plan?

A job escape plan.

Could my life have been very different?

Could I have had an alternative lifestyle than the one I eventually ended up living?

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Roy Carter

Founder of www.LettersFromASmallisland.com monthly newsletter sent from my home on Magnetic Island — ‘A Quaint Little Drinking Island With A Fishing Problem! ‘