[ WP ] Everyone is given game based superpowers . While most chose staples like super strength , flight or freakin lazer beans , you and you alone chose the quicksave feature

Here's the thing about regret: Everyone has it. 
 
 I mean, you go through life and there are decisions to be made, choices presented to you. Good choices, bad choices; sometimes completely neutral choices it's just that one is more interesting than the other, one requires more risk. 
 
 And people find all kinds of ways help them make those choices -- advice from loved ones, scammy self help books, magic eight balls, coin flips, tarot cards, psychics, you name it. And why? Because they do n't want to regret. No one wants to regret. That's why it's such a negative word, because it sucks wondering for the rest of your life if you made the best choice. Because no matter how many pseudo-poignant platitudes you give someone about letting go of the past, there's always going to be that one choice, that one decision they made that haunts them to the grave wondering: What if? 
 
 With one exception. 
 
 That's right. At my thirteenth birthday, during my coming of age ceremony, while all the rest of my friends were choosing basic, standard abilities like invisibility and flight, superstrength, telekinesis, whatever; I chose the ability to save my progress. 
 
 Alright, so technically it's the ability to rewind time to a particular point. But the important thing here is that I do n't have to wonder. I just drop a save point before every major decision and I know what would happen if I transferred to the public high school after eight years of private elementary school; I know what would happen if I'd gotten up the guts to ask my best friend to the homecoming dance; I know what would happen if I went to my first choice college and gone into debt instead of taking the full scholarship from my safety school; I know what would happen if I chose the high paying job that took me across the country away from my family and hometown, instead of the reasonably paying job that kept me close to the world I was comfortable in. 
 
 I've molded my life to its most ideal, going back over and over making different choices until I find the path I like the most. 
 
 People ask me sometimes whether I feel like I've just taken the thrill out of life. I say thrills do n't have to come from not being sure whether something's going to work out for the best or just crash and burn; thrills just come from not knowing what's going to happen next. What I've taken out of my life? Is the anxiety that something might go horribly wrong because of a decision I made and I wo n't be able to do anything about it. 
 
 Besides, it's not like bad things never happen to me. That's something that a lot of people do n't always seem to get, sometimes shit happens and it's not because of anything you did -- people get mugged, get into car accidents, homes burn down, economies crash. But because of my ability I have this fantastic support system and a decent nest egg to fall back on in hard times that I ca n't just save my way out of. 
 
 A solid decision overall, if you ask me. And at the end of the day my only real regret? 
 
 Being able to fly would've been REALLY cool.
