i wish life was all in CAD.

then it would be easy to create, save and open anytime you want. you could delete the whole file too if you didn't like it much, then hit the NEW button and could start over.

or if you got your life file all drawn up on model space, you could make changes to it. of course you could always add more. just hit PL or L or C or use any of the drawing tools on the side toolbar (just right-click on the gray area to show the toolbars) and you'd have your polylines and simple lines and circles, arcs, cloud shapes, polygons. anything in hell you want.

then, if there was any little thing in your life that you didn't like, and you didn't want to start over with a clean slate, you could just trim whatever it was that you wanted to disappear. hit TR once and you could trim things that were too long, too big, too obnoxious, too scandalous. or if they were too short or not adequate, type in EXTEND or TR and hold the shift key down, and you could make any line or polyline or arc longer. or if you wanted more control, you use LENGTHEN and by choosing DE you could specify how many units you'd like your lines longer or shorter. FI if you wanted smooth curves where your corners were or hold down shift if you wanted sharper edges.

if you found that your lines weren't behaving the way you wanted, just PEDIT them and you could JOIN them or CLOSE or OPEN them and make them more manageable.

if there was an element in your life that you liked so much and you wanted it all over the place, you could CO it so you wouldn't have to keep doing it and bore yourself to death. or if you didn't like their current coordinates, hit M and they'll move. if they were upside-down, RO them, MIRROR if they were sideways. but say, you wanted a particular thing duplicated and you wanted to place the copy in the same direction as the original and you wanted a certain distance between them, just go and O them and they'll be copied and offsetted.

but sometimes in life (and in CAD) you don't always draw everything. sometimes you'd want to insert a block or XREF a different file. maybe your friend had a nice frame that really knocked you out so you XR it onto your own file. the catch, though, is that you'd have to take the entire XREF-ed file. too bad you couldn't do it piece by piece or layer by layer. so then what could do would be to EXPLODE it so it'd break into little bits and pieces. you could then delete them individually.

E would be the greatest thing if our lives were all in CAD. we could just erase whatever thing we didn't want anymore or wanted to forget. then, if you thought you made a mistake in erasing the thing, you could always hit U and undo your last move. you could even specify how many steps back you wanted. you'd have to be quick though. if you SAVE it, you couldn't go back. in any case, U would still be the best thing. you could keep going back.

but say, you wanted to take a break and step back from all the drawing, the editing, the insertion of other blocks and files. all that drama. you wanted to take a step back and see what was already done. you could switch tabs from model space to layout space. MVIEW the selected parts you wanted to see. Z-SPACE-E-SPACE to see the whole thing, but the scale might be too small depending on how full your draft was. so then the better move would be Z-SPACE-S-SPACE, specify the scale, and you could see the selected parts up close. but i guess the real beauty of the layout space is that you could have different viewports on a single page. so then you could have zoomed-in snapshots of the different elements that you had on different windows. type in LEADER to make arrows and point to the tiniest details. people would only see the best parts, and you wouldn't have to show everything. if you wanted your viewports in certain positions, MVSETUP or DVIEW them. you could even lock the display to make sure it wouldn't move or change its own scale or whatever. but as always, U or E if mishaps happened.

i guess sometimes there would be layers in life that you wouldn't want to see for a certain period of time, but erasing them entirely would be too hard. what you could easily do would be to go LA and freeze the layers you didn't want to see yet. you could always turn them back on later, say, when the pain was gone, the hurt was over, all the dumb drama was over with. sadly, for this to work right, you should've figured out your setup in the beginning. say, one layer for one person in your life. so every time you drew an experience with that person, that would just be exclusive to that person's layer. so just in case you chose not to see that person's layer and memories at a certain period in your life, you could just freeze it and CAD would be nice enough to hide it from you. you wouldn't be able to see or change it. you could always unfreeze later. but if the time came and you never wanted to have anything to do with a handful of people layers, just PURGE them. purge the hell out of them.

one thing you couldn't purge, though, would be the 0-layer. cuz that would be you.

i think life would be beautiful in CAD. all the colors. all the shapes. all the different things you could do to it. you'd have absolute control.

so what if your boss told you to revise it? at least you could still revise it using any technique your little heart desired.