Our life is a book......

I compare the life of a person to books. Some are wonderful novels that we wish would never end and others are stories that make up a series of books that keep you waiting till the spring for the next addition. My life or book as I call it has had many different types of chapters. Some chapters are sappy and sad, some chapters are frustrating, some have you wanting to know more and other chapters having you wondering how will this book end. As I am approaching the 40 marker rather quickly I have began to wonder what chapter for my life is next. There are so many things that I haven't done yet that according to my manual I wrote for myself that I want to do. Funny how the life manual we write of what is important to us changes as we get older and priorities change. I find myself now trying to justify what changes to my manual are acceptable to me. As I look back through the chapters of my life I realize that choices I have made have altered my ability to obtain some of my life manual goals. Have I short changed myself or just changed my mind?