Interesting question?  One Judas Kiss is going to look at through one character's eyes.  But for each of us I think we should ask ourselves... would we?  If so when and where would we make the change.

For me I would most certainly.  I know exactly the day I'd change.  I'd make certain myself nor my brother went to the neighbor's bbq so we wouldn't have been in the accident.  My brother never would have died and I'd not have been burned.

What about you?

There are many things that I think about that I would like to go back in time and change, from major life decisions like where to go to college, to minor things like saying things differently in an argument or taking a different class.

I often wonder what my life would be like if I had gone to one of the colleges that were offering me a full scholarship instead of attending college near home.  I'd have more money and probably have an easier time getting into med school, I'd be somewhere with warmer weather, and a whole bunch of other benefits.  But then I think: I had stayed home to help raise my sisters, and if I had gone far away to college, what would the ramifications for them be?  When I think about what could have changed because of all of the events in my life, I realize that I would be a whole different person if I changed even a few things, and I would not have made a difference in some peoples' lives.

Also If I had made some small decisions like not going to a party, or choosing a different instrument to play in orchestra, I would not have met some of my closest friends, and had some of the experiences that I have enjoyed.  As in the Star Trek Voyager episode "Year of Hell" and the Next Generation episode "Parallels," each alternate path or fate of people leads to drastic changes in the timeline.  And in H.G. Well's The Time Machine, some events are unavoidable no matter what you do to change them. I would, however, make myself enjoy the moment and not be so worried about the future and hopefully it wouldn't screw up the timeline.  Also, if I had experienced a tragedy such as Mighty's, I probably would go back and change an event, even if it meant being a different person.

Time travel and its consequences are so unpredictable, though, so it is really a fascinating topic to ponder...

You make some great points there Bradley.  We really don't know how different choices would turn out.  They may turn out worse than what you have.  If not for you then other loved ones around you.  I know for a fact I have touched various others lives in some profound ways.  Perhaps if I did change the accident that killed my brother might not have altered some of the others.  Never the less I still think I'd go through with it.

You know, I think I would at least want to see the path it would have set me on. must like Bradley, I could have gone to NYU. It was a huge opportunity for me, but the school was just too expensive for myself, and my dad didn't want to help pay for it. I often wonder what would happen if things were different. If i had gone. Would I still be in New York? I know I would not have met Adam of course and hundreds of other people. But I have just joined New Voyages first? Would I have still met Carlos? Maybe my path would have been a straighter path? I really don't know. I'm sure there are even smaller insignifant things that can change my path at any given moment. But thats the big one I think about a lot. Though it wasn't my choice to shape that. It was my fathers.

I ... don't know. I suspect that part of my problem--unlike JT or Mighty--would be determining where and when to make any change. I'm not certain that there's any major pivotal point to change. Probably, if anything, it would be the same as Bradley's and JT's: which college to attend. I was offered a full scholarship at what I thought was my dream college (don't ask), only to turn it down for what I perceived as a better scholarship (which included time overseas) at a university closer to home. Given the sheer number of things that particular choice has influenced, from realizations about sexual identity to relationships and hobbies to my current job (outside my original major), I can't even begin to speculate what the differences would have been. That's more pivotal than anything else offhand, and I'm not sure that the results would have been more stellar had things gone differently.

Still, there are dozens of small decisions about which I sometimes wonder. Occasionally, I'd love, a la Next, to be able to see the various consequences of different decisions, even if only in retrospect.

Yes, I would.  I know today and try to remind myself that there are two sides to every coin.