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Originally posted by bccpl77
.... I'm tired of all the shoulda, coulda, wouldas. |
This sentence has been gnawing at my mind all day.
Only I remember it as in a bit of reverse sequence..."shoulda, woulda, coulda". Chuck Barris wrote a book a kazillion years ago, ya know the guy who hosted and created The Gong Show. (Does that date me or what? lol) The book was titled "You and me Babe". I was fourteen when I read that book. I remember 'cause it was 1975 when we moved from Colorado to Ohio, and the week before we left, we spent it in Estes Park. I bought that book to take with me. I must have read it ten times during that week. The story is one in which a man meets and falls in love with a woman while they are dirt poor and then he suddenly becomes rich and famous through his creation of game shows and it detracted from his everday life with his family and friends. He became so wrapped up in the importance of 'who he was' rather than what he 'should have been'. The feeling of importance empowered him to achieve more, and the more he did so, the less important those around him became. The bitter reality was that he lost what was most important to him. His wife and daughter and all of his 'common' friends, because they no longer felt they held importance in his life. His realization, when he was left alone, was that he had all the money to make him comfortable for life, many times over, yet his life was so empty as he didn't have any true friends or his family. His reflection was 'shoulda, woulda, coulda'...if he'd only known how it would all turn out...
I have to wonder today, if it wasn't a reflection of his own life.