Imagine the Unimaginable

Every day when we wake up, it’s a brand new day. Fresh, brand new, straight out the box, new car smell, new shoe smell new. A famous quote by Eleanor Roosevelt goes something like this: “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present’.” We have no idea what a new day is going to bring. But the unbelievable possibilities that a new day can bring are wondrous. What if a new day brought something so new that you couldn’t even comprehend why it was happening? Something so magical, enchanting, powerful, influential, and utterly amazing that your heart stops……………………………but only for a moment…………

If you wake up tomorrow morning, and someone presents you with a choice, would you listen? What if someone presented to you a crystal ball? The very idea of it is a joke. But what if it isn’t a joke on this morning? They say, “You may look into the crystal ball for a glimpse of your future in 20 years.” Would you look? If you like what you see, and you believe in fate, you’ll most likely go on your way with a little skip in your step. What if you don’t like what you see…..but you don’t even know that you don’t like what you see because, interestingly enough, that’s not you yet. It’s you in 20 years. A completely different reality, life, and moment. If your future puts you in a precarious and unfathomable situation, would you start to change who you are and the actions that people judge you by? Or would you just go on your way? Would you look?

If you wake up tomorrow morning, and you find an Aladdin-lookin’ genie lamp waiting for you, you’re going to rub it right? Of course you are, because it’s there, it’s cool looking, and there’s no way that a genie would come out of it…..right? What if one did? Sure, you would be scared half to death and maybe call the police, but you would probably catch your breath eventually. He (or She) says what you’ve always dreamed of hearing, “I’m your genie, and I am here to grant you 3 wishes.” What would your 3 wishes be? Would it be to cure the incurable? Superpowers? Infinite amount of money? How about good health for your family for generations? No more unnecessary violence on Earth? Success to your friends and family in all of their future endeavors? What would your 3 wishes be?

Restart. Refresh. Redo. If you wake up tomorrow morning and you’re presented with a “redo” button, would you press it? When I say redo, I mean redo a day, a moment, a time, a minute. Was there ever a period in your short life thus far that you wish you could just repeat knowing that you could change the outcome to exactly how you perceived it should have turned out to be? I certainly do. But, before you press that button, think about the ramifications of the action you’re about to partake in. If you go back and change what has made you who are today, will you be wiser? Or just more naïve? Maybe you would be better off or maybe not. Would you press the button?

You love, we love, and the world loves. There are people we would go to the ends of the Earth for and back 5 times over without hesitation. If you wake up tomorrow morning, and you are presented with an ultimatum that is so inexplicable, what would you do? In this case, you wake up to a world that is in ruins after an apocalyptic event. Everyone has vanished, but you somehow have the power to bring back to life one person that you can spend the rest of your life with. Who would it be? Can your mind comprehend the incomprehensible? Your mother, father, brother, sister, daughter, son……….. girlfriend, boyfriend, wife or husband? Who would you choose?

We all imagine the unimaginable. We have stints of daydreaming when we’re out with friends, in class, or just sitting down. We’re flying, we’re with the ones we love, we’re in love, we’re rich with emotion that no amount of money can provide. We are in another place. A place that is far, far, far away from this reality that we call Life and this home that we call Earth. Imagine the unimaginable