![[My Life, Revised_Chapter 0.mp3]]Welcome to My Life, Revised. This is a fictional story about a man who gets the chance to do what most of us have imagined at one point or another: go back and revise the choices that made his life what it is. The story follows Derek Wayne Ryan. He’s thirty, tired, disappointed, and more than a little disgusted with the person he’s become. Work drains him. His body feels like evidence against him. His days keep disappearing into the same compromises, the same distractions, the same quiet feeling that life is not becoming what it was supposed to become. And then a journal arrives in the mail with his name stamped on the front. Inside are instructions that should be impossible. At first, it seems ridiculous. Then small things stop lining up. A choice he doesn’t remember making. Evidence of a weekend he doesn’t remember living. A present that seems to have shifted because somewhere in the past, something about him changed. What the journal offers is simple to describe and very hard to resist: the chance to revise your life at the point where it went wrong. To say yes instead of no. To take the risk. To make the better decision. To become, finally, the person you keep telling yourself you could have been. But the deeper Derek goes, the stranger the bargain becomes. Because getting a better life is not the same thing as building one. And the version of your life that looks better from the outside may still feel wrong from the inside. If you’ve ever replayed old decisions in your head, if you’ve ever wondered who you might be if you had done just a few things differently, this story is for you. This is My Life, Revised.