The What IF's

The what if's are what keeps us awake at night and is what keeps us longing to dream. The what if's are different for everyone and often are different from night to night. A basketball player asks what if he had just made the winning shot. A baseball player what if's about the strikeout to end the game when all he needed was a hit to be the hero. The artist what if's about why they were not the one to paint the picture or to write those words that are so well known now. The single mother what if's what life may have been like without the child and how she is glad for the path she has been taken on. The dreamer what if's winning the lottery and spending the cash. The student what if's the path the have chosen, that maybe they would rather be an engineer instead of a psychologist, or they what if they had just studied the right questions. We finally come upon the people that the what if's are most associated with, the lovers. Lovers what if so many things before they go to sleep and live each scenario out in their dreams, because in the dream nothing can go wrong. They what if they hadn't met the one they now fall to sleep dreaming about. They what if the path the would be on if they had not shown up to the show, or maybe gone home right after cause they were tired. They what if maybe they were the one to pass out on the couch, or what would have happened had they not made the choice to walk away. Every person what if's their past, their present and their future. Without the what if'ing we would just be completely content with what we have, never questioning anything, never taking the chance. The what if's make taking the chance worth it. The what if's are what make the basketball player take that last shot, are what make the baseball player swing for that pitch the next chance he gets to be the hero. They keep the artist's trying to create, the dreamers to keep dreamin and the students to try the little bit harder. The what if's are what cause the lovers to take the chance on someone, to do things they would normally never do, to take pictures of themselves naked with a cowboy hat, to drive to Humboldt for no reason, to sit under the stars on a trampoline and not care about anything else in the world except that point in time, caring only about being in that one place. The what if's keep us from regreting laying everything out there, they make things that happen accidentally so, so worth it.

The what if's make up the what is...keep dreaming!