Back To The Future

What if you could go back? What year would you go back to? 2005? (The housing market was booming then.) 1999? (Many were storing food and water for the Y2K computer meltdown. You, too?) 1995? (The 49ers won their fifth Super Bowl, 49-26, over the San Diego Chargers. O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown, and Ron Goldman.) 1981? (Ronald Reagan was shot. Video: HERE) So what year would you go back to? Hmm?

And I guess the truth is sometimes we wish we could go back. We wish we could go back to a "happier" time. A time when things weren't quite as challenging. A time when (at least it seemed like) we didn't have to work so hard to survive. (Was there ever a time like that?)

And if I'm reminded about anything in this quick post about going back, I'm reminded that, sure there were good times in the past (Super Bowl wins, real estate booms), but there were tough times, too. It wasn't always so rosy, peachy keen, with a cherry on top in the past. (Right?) We worked through some hardships. We worked through some pain ~ and we made it. We made it to today. (We'll make it to tomorrow, too.)