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Bret Primack's avatar

All of us carry a mental list — a quiet inventory of what could have been. Moments that linger like ghosts in the corridors of memory. These are the fork-in-the-road incidents: the job we didn’t take, the phone call we never made, the person we let go, the dream we put on hold. Each one could’ve sent our lives down a completely different path.

But what governs those pivotal moments? Is it fate — some cosmic design unfolding with eerie precision? Or is it our own choices, shaped by fear, hope, instinct, or chance? Maybe it’s both. Maybe fate lays out the options, but it’s our decisions that give them weight. The truth is, we never really know what might’ve happened. All we can do is live with the echoes, learn from them, and keep walking forward — one choice at a time.

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NJH's avatar

Whoa—that’s some deep s—t. Of course, life’s twists and turns are unpredictable—and as the late Sydney Harris once wrote, ‘our ignorance is our impetus.’

But your writing of Dex, the jam sessions, the clubs, the songs, are eloquent and moving.

I’ve got my favourite songs from the albums you listed, perhaps share some of yours with the readers?

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