I, Me, Myself

Rachel: ...God, could you imagine if I actually married him?! I mean how different would my life be?
Ross: I know what you mean, I've always wondered how different my life would be if--if I'd never gotten divorced.
Phoebe: Which time?
Ross: The first time! No seriously, imagine if Carol hadn't realized she was a lesbian.
(略)
Monica: And what if I was still fat? (To Chandler) Well, you wouldn't be dating me, that's for sure.
Chandler: Sure I would!
All: (simultaneously) Oh yeah! Come on! Yeah right!
Chandler: What, you guys really think that I'm that shallow?
Ross: No, I just think Monica was that fat.
Joey: Hey, imagine if I never got fired off Days Of Our Lives!
Chandler: What if I had had the guts to quit my job? I'd probably be writing for the New Yorker, getting paid to be funny. But my job's fun too! I mean tomorrow, I--I don't have to wear a tie.
Phoebe: What if I had taken that job at Merrill Lynch?
Ross: What?!
Rachel: Merrill Lynch?
Phoebe: Yeah, I had a massage client who worked there and-and he said I had a knack for stocks.
Rachel: Well why didn't you take the job?
Phoebe: Because at that time you see, I thought everything that rhymed was true. So I thought y' know that if I'd work with stocks, I'd have to live in a box, and only eat lox, and have a pet fox.
Ross: Hey, do you guys think that if all those things happened, we'd still hang out?

上面那段台詞的大意是：
如果 Rachel 還是嫁給了 Barry（那個上了她好朋友的男人），
如果 Ross 的老婆後來沒有成為女同性戀，
如果 Monica 還是像高中時期那麼胖，
如果 Joey 還是某部超紅的連續劇演員之一，
如果 Chandler 放棄他現在的工作（天曉得那是啥XD）而轉行當自由作家，
如果 Phoebe 跑去當了股市交易員？

這一切如果真的發生，
當然結局有好有壞，
但最讓我念念不忘的是最後一句，
Ross 問：「我們還會是好朋友嗎？」

對啊，這人生當中有很多轉捩點，
每經過一次人生轉變，
大家都會想，另外一個選擇會更好嗎？
這不是在開玩笑，
連美國大詩人 Robert Frost (1874～1963) 都寫了一首詩，
The Road Not Taken 來表達這番心境，
平凡人如我們，會這樣想也是很正常的。

但當時間倒退，我們有重新選擇的機會，
你是否了解到，重新選擇過後的歷史，
也許就不會走到今天，現在，此時此刻？
你目前所擁有的一切，
你的朋友，你的事業，你的情人，
都會因為過去某個時間點的選擇改變了，
而從此不會成為你記憶裡的一部分？

看到這裡，有些朋友可能想起一部電影：蝴蝶效應。:)

仔細想想，回到過去改變某個決定，
是不是真得值得你這樣做呢？
你要明白一件事：
你現在的思想、行為模式，
都是從以前到現在不斷演進的結果，
你回到那一點，
就還是會以當時的知識和行為模式，
去做你那時候會做的事。

對我來說，
我不認為再給我第二次選擇的機會，
我就會做出不同的選擇。

我也不希望失去我現在的一切，
我覺得人生發生過的每件事，
都自有它本身的意義存在，
而正因為人生不能倒退重來，
我們才能不斷活出新的生活，
在每一次轉變的時間點上，
一直不斷不斷地向前進。

不是嗎？ :)