What Could Have Been

What could have been, but wasn’t

What might have been, but isn’t

What I have is deserved by me,

What isn’t, wasn’t meant to be.

We come across so many people everyday-people we know, love and interact with; people we only recognize by face-the liftman, the security guard, colleagues in our college or workplace; and people we don’t know-the passerby’s on the road, in cars, in cafes, malls and multiplexes.

What we expect from people is sometimes met and sometimes not. We wish he/she wasn’t just a friend. How nice it’d be if I meant something more to her/him. We wish we didn’t have that fight a year ago and were still friends today. It would have been fun to still hear her witty suggestions for all life’s problems-big or small. We wish we had we had gotten to know someone better-a friend that could have been. We wonder how it would have been if we hadn’t hesitated to give our phone number where we could have, maybe should have.

Sometimes we wish we had bunked that class and gone for the film and gotten free popcorn as part of the promotional offer. If we had sneaked out of house and gone for the party maybe we would have met the guy we had been hearing about for months. Maybe going for that seminar would have informed me about the course which I wanted to pursue or maybe it was just boring. There are so many things we could have done instead of what we did. The things which could have been something but are something else. The relationship that could have been but isn’t. But it’s okay right? What we have now is a result of our past decisions and what we decide now will determine what happens next.

The choice is always ours but still sometimes when a cool breeze blows and the sun sets, our heart goes out in search of things which might have been not always with regret, maybe just a slight wistful longing. What we have now is the best for us yes, but who would know what could have been…?

QOTB: What are the things you wish “could have been”??!