TM #163 - Hindsight is always 20/20
You know, I'm not really sure how to answer this one.
To have something to say about hindsight, I'd have to have regrets about things that I'd done or said. It would mean that there were times that I wish I could go back to and change, or that on the other side have turned out to be bad for me. And sure, there's been plenty of things that have happened that I wish never did, but when we're talking about things that I did or said?
I'm not so sure about that.
If I hadn't stayed behind on Caprica right after the attacks, then Baltar would never have ended up with the fleet. But then I never would have met Sharon and fallen in love with her, and we never would have made Hera.
If I hadn't chosen to stay with Sharon even after I knew she was a Cylon, my life would be simpler and easier. But she never would have saved my life... she, Starbuck and I never would have gotten off of Caprica... and all the times she saved the fleet's collective ass would never have happened.
*locked*
If I hadn't stopped the plan to execute the Cylon prisoners, we wouldn't have to keep running from the Cylons. But I, and I want to think, most of us, couldn't stop running from our consciences.
If I hadn't... shot... Sharon, I wouldn't have to live with having seen that, and having done that. But then we wouldn't have Hera back. I wouldn't have my family back.
*unlocked*
The choices we make are what define us. And even though there's been pain and sadness, I've gotten too much out of the things I've done to want to take them back.
Capt. Karl "Helo" Agathon
Battlestar Galactica
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