We live dual lives: one real and one relegated to the world of potential, longing, imagination and regret.
Perhaps it is a characteristic of the human condition that we can always imagine ourselves in two places at once. If we have children, we wonder what life would be like without them; if we don't, we wonder the same. We think about travelling if we had not, about leaving and whether we should have, and about staying and whether we should have gone.
