Normally, people probably don't think a lot about how timing affects everything. Just a few milliseconds could put somebody's life on a path of destruction, or on a path of greatness. There are so many situations where a few seconds, an hour, a day, could change everything. Here are a few examples of what I mean.
- What if because a bird landed in front of you and made you stop in your tracks your life was saved. What if after you stopped and looked at this peculiar little bird you saw about a block ahead of you a bus run off the road and crash onto a side walk right where you would've been walking if it wasn't for a few seconds delay?
- What if you were in a café and there was a rude person behind you, so you decided to just leave without even picking up your coffee? What if after you left you still had to go to the store? When you walk into this store you are the four hundredth and fiftieth customer to walk in so you win five hundred dollars. If it hadn't been for that rude customer making you leave a few minutes earlier perhaps you would've been the four hundredth and fifty-second customer.
- What if by some odd chance you missed your plane? And then an hour later that same plane you were supposed to be on crashed?
- What if by a couple minutes your parents missed the moment in time that they were supposed to meet? What if you were never born? What if, you were born a year later because of them not meeting at the right time? What if because of this, every moment in life that you've ever had was altered?
- What if, by a couple seconds, you never walked out of the store and bumped into the man that is your husband now? Would you still be married to him? Would you have children? Would you be happy with who you would've been?
Situations like these, if they happened to you, really make you question things. What if I wouldn't have stopped..? What if I would've waited for my coffee? What if I would've gotten to my flight five minutes earlier? What if? What if? Perhaps all we're left with is wondering what would've happened if only those few seconds, minutes, hours, or days, hadn't of went by at that certain time.
What if is one of the various question that have endless possibilities in this world.
ReplyDeleteEveryone has a different answer, a different outlook, and a different way to take the question. Sometimes it's fun to light up your imagination and think of the impossible. Sometimes it's more fun to live in your mind and think of the things you could've done and should've done, than face what you have done. You're a great writer and I hope you continue to write. I love you, and I'm ready to see you soon!!
-Bethany pace