Reimagining the Past

Do you ever reimagine past experiences you have had, indulge in a creatively-driven form of "redecision therapy" as you compose a story?

To be more specific, have you ever passed up an opportunity and then built a story around the "what if" of having seized that opportunity?

What if you had been less afraid?

What if you'd expressed how you really felt?

What if you had allowed your heart to rule your head (or your head your heart)?

I'm toying with something of the sort at the moment and was just curious to know if and how anyone else had taken those "if only I'd..." fantasies into the realm of fiction.

So, tell me. Have you ever taken a situation from your own experience, peopled it with characters of your own devising and then seen how it played itself out?