“Maybe nothing”
If you could erase one event from history, what would it be?
There are things in history I desperately wish had never happened. There are things in my own history I wish I could erase too.
But erasing something is different from wishing it hadn’t happened.
Every event leaves something behind. Sometimes wounds, sometimes lessons, sometimes changes that couldn’t have come any other way.
And I’ve lived long enough to know that even the chapters I would never choose helped shape the person who eventually walked out of them.
So maybe I wouldn’t erase an event from history.
Maybe I’d rather hope we finally learn from it.
The Quiet Path 