Mitch Albom

And I thought, I hope, and I do hope that people will read it and make them maybe think about that whole grass being greener with somebody else idea because it's not just the first blade of grass.

It's the whole lawn that you have to do all over again.

Yeah.

And that, Tanya, is kind of the takeaway from it for me.

You know, a number of people since the book has come out have asked me, so is there anything in your life that you would do over again?

And I think some people expect that I would say no.

I don't know, they think Tuesdays with Maury has turned me into a Zen master or something.

And I would say, no, no, all is what the universe is supposed to be.

No, of course I would do things over in my life.

I can rattle off 30 things right now.

But if you said to me, in doing them over, you have to surrender whatever you've learned and whatever you've done as a result of what you've learned from your mistakes...

then I wouldn't trade it because all of those things that I would redo, the consequences of those things

Made me into who I am now.

You know, it's like taking out a piece of the tapestry.

It falls apart.

So I wouldn't go back and undo things if I had to sacrifice what I had learned from doing them.

And Yaya, his grandmother, at one point says to him, he says, how come we only get to go back twice?

You know, why don't we get to go back again and again?

She says, Alfie, if you kept getting second chances, you wouldn't learn a damn thing.

Hmm.