If I Knew What I Knew Then

By: Alison Amarain

If I knew how my life would be would be would I even try

Would I have spent all that time studying for the minor I won’t use

Would I have made the friends who would betray me

Would I date the guys that were bad for me

Would I go to those parties with people I’ll never see again

Would I go on the trips that ruined

Would I do anything to change my present?

If I knew how my life would be would I like it

Would I hate who I became

Would I be proud of my accomplishments

Would I even be me without all previous failures

Would I learn or make the same mistakes

Surround myself with the poisonous people who haunt me

If I knew how my life would be it would it even help me

Would the future even be able to change my past

Should it?

What person would I become if I knew everything without experiencing it

Would I even recognize myself

Would I have the passion inside me

Would I have the same hobbies

Ignorance is bliss and knowledge is power

But sometimes you need to experience to grow