Writing Prompt: Back to the Future

If you were 12, and could see yourself now, do you think you'd be happy or disappointed, and why?

Hmmm...I'm trying to remember me at twelve. I think perhaps happy and disappointed aren't the right pair of words. I'd like to think I'd be happy to see myself as a grown woman, secure in the embrace of several overlapping loving communities. I think, though, that given how idealistic I was at twelve, I might be somewhat disappointed to see how reality had interfered with the things I dreamed of. I don't know that the twelve-year-old could understand the choices I've made, or the reasons for them. I'd like to think, also, that if she saw the struggles I've had, she would take different paths than I took.