one time when i was a kid, my mom took me to Toys R Us and i found an accordion. for some reason, at that age, i really really wanted to play an accordion. i picked it up and carried it around the store with me when i stumbled upon a Crash Test Dummies action figure set with a car that explodes. my mom told me i could only have one and that she would not return it if i found myself unhappy with my decision. i debated on it for like 15 minutes and eventually both my mom and i convinced me that i would never put in the time to learn the accordion, so i put the accordion back. the Crash Test Dummies toy was stuff and i didn't like it and to this day i wonder where i would have ended up if i had gotten that accordion. what if i was a savant and grew up to be the world's greatest accordionist, with my own line of custom accordions and getting thousands of dollars per show. what if i toured the world and met other amazing musicians and collaborated and sent home a fat check every month to my mom so she never had to work or worry about money again.
i guess i'll never know