Change can be defined as "the act or instance of making or becoming different." It can be more directly defined as something we often question to ourselves many times a day.

Throughout the day we make choices: The choice between pancakes and eggs or just coffee for breakfast. The question of whether or not the answer you wrote down on your college biology test was the right one, whether or not to go to the gym today (after you said you were going to for the last two months) and whether or not you'll wait to start your five-page essay that's due at midnight, until 11 o'clock that night. We make hundreds of choices regarding what we're going to wear, and how we're going to respond to a situation, all in a matter of seconds.

But the question that always seems to remain is: Do you regret the choice you made? Would you change it if you could?

Society's mantra is to do things quickly and efficiently. We are taught to make choices at the speed of light, without taking time to really think them through. The concern is that, although we are trained to think rapidly, are we given enough time to really make the right decision? Is this thought process causing us to regret the decisions we have made?

Take a moment and look at yourself in the mirror: Would you change the person you see on the other side? Do you recognize the person in your reflection? Do you like them?

It's easy to say you regret a decision you have made, or even wish you could change it, but is it really as simple as that? Is it as easy to say you want to change, as it is to actually change and correct your wrongs? Are we, humans, actually capable of changing?

Some individuals say they would do nearly anything to change their mistakes. Others, though, claim it is better to leave "your past in your past," and not to worry about it because it ultimately cannot be changed. However, if time travelling was real, would you go back in time and erase your past?

I often wonder what it would be like to start over, to have a clean slate. I wonder if people would actually change as much as they claim they would. But that is something I will never know because clean slates do not exist, only second chances do. Though, we may be better off without a "pause" and "redo" button because with them, we wouldn't understand the thin line between right and wrong, on which we walk on.

Change is a funny thing; you can change one, small thing in the past and it changes everything from then on, but change the future, and you have a second chance to start fresh.

So, would you change who you are? Will you?