# THE LIVES I NEVER LIVED What if I had stayed? What if I had gone? What if the road I left behind was where I belonged all along? What if I changed my job? What if I moved away? What if I left the life I know and started over yesterday? Sometimes I wonder who I'd be by now, if I'd said yes instead of no, if I'd left instead of stayed around. There are ghosts in every choice, little versions of me walking through the lives I'll never get to see. **What if I stayed? What if I ran? What if there's another me somewhere I don't understand? What if I chose differently, would I be happier tonight? I'll never know... and maybe that's alright.** What if I loved someone else? What if they loved me too? What if another life is waiting somewhere I never knew? What if tomorrow I wake up and decide to leave this place behind me and begin another life? Maybe that's the strange thing about being alive— every road we take leaves another one behind. And I could spend forever looking through those doors, wondering what was waiting there, wondering who I was before. But I am here. And maybe that's enough. **What if I stayed? What if I ran? What if there's another me somewhere I don't understand? What if I chose differently, would I be happier tonight? I'll never know... and maybe that's alright.** There are a thousand lives I could have lived, a thousand roads I never took. Some may have been brighter. Some may have hurt less. Some may have led me somewhere I'll never get to know. And that's okay. Let the ghosts keep walking down the roads I left behind. I don't need to follow them anymore. There are a thousand lives I could have lived... but I'm living this one tonight.
