[ WP ] You are given the chance to choose any 10 minute chunk of your life and do it over .

`` Who are you?'' my voice shook, before me stood a wretched creature, hunching with ragged hair and a horrid smile, I had just died. 
 
 `` That is of no importance, mortal, I have been known by many names across the ages: The Crone, Skuld, Death, The Grim Reaper, they're all me, I am they. You have a choice now, mortal, just as you all do, just as you've had many times, now...'' 
 
 She, and I do think that it was a she, paused for a minute, crooked smile widening; I could see her yellow teeth and smell her putrid breath, like some poor creature had crawled inside and died there. 
 
 `` You can choose to end it, now, and leave your life behind.... or you can choose any point in your life and try again, start anew. You'll remember all that you do now, but only for ten minutes starting where you begin...'' 
 
 My life, cliched as it may sound, flashed before my eyes. Years of regret, loneliness, a sad death with nobody to remember me, tears in my eyes as I realized what a waste my time had been. I thought for a minute about where I might begin again, and after making up my mind, I spoke. 
 
 `` Of course I'll-'' 
 
 I did n't get to finish, almost as soon as I opened my mouth the breath was sucked out of my lungs, like some cold fist slammed into my chest. 
 
 When I opened my eyes again, I was standing with my friend Beth, beautiful Beth who I never thought I would see again, alone on a bridge in the warm, Spring afternoon. 
 
 Immediately a smile played on my lips, another chance, an opportunity to do it right. Here goes nothing. 
 
 I opened my mouth, `` Look, Beth, I know this is all so sudden, and we're both so busy right now, we do n't have time, but something I've realized recently is that life is full of not having time, we'll never have time for the things we care about unless we make time, will you be my girlfriend?''
