Friday, January 31, 2014

What if...

It snowed again.
Trees were blue.
It rained cats and dogs.
We couldn't see colors.
Everyone looked the same.
We could fly.
Unicorns were real.
Narwhals were in warm waters.
Our pets could talk.
We got married younger.
There was no such thing as school.
No one had cell phones.
Everyone liked to read.
Clouds were actually soft and you could jump on them.
We lived in outerspace.
We lived in the ocean.
We lived in the trees.
Our dreams at night came true.

What if we lived in the trees? We could all live in tree houses and sleep in hammocks way up in the trees on warm summer nights. We could build tree villages with bridges connecting them. I don't know how we would get our pets up there but maybe there could be some sort of elevator inside the tree trunk, that way the elderly, infants, and animals could get up. This would be a difficult life for people who are afraid of heights, but I guess that fear wouldn't exist because if we all started out in the trees, no one would know any different. We would all basically live like Trazan and Jane. Maybe we would have monkey friends. I'm sure we would have lot of birds and squirrels to keep us company. Of course we could still go down and adventure on the ground and swim in waters. Eventually cars and grocery stores would be built so people could get from one tree village to another and go to the grocery store. Maybe we just wouldn't have stoves or ovens because that seems like it'd be a fire hazard. Maybe our kitchens could be inside the trees too and somehow made to be safe for cooking in. I'm sure with our technology we could figure that out. You know what trees would be perfect to live in? The Red Woods in Canada. They are so big that we could make our homes in the trunks rather than tree houses on the branches. Maybe there would be different kinds of villages, ones inside the trees and ones on the branches. I wonder if the whole world could live in the trees. Probably not because a lot of places don't have trees in their terrain. So the idea I'd like to submit to the world is maybe not necessarily what if we all lived in tree houses, but what if we didn't live in houses and neighborhoods like we do now. We could live in trees, underground, underwater, or even in space.

What if our dreams at night came true? We all have those incredible and inspiring dreams that we wish were reality when we wake up from them. Imagine if when we woke up, our world was changed to that dream. And each time we dream, our reality shifts to the time and place of the dream. Nightmares would be the exception. They would not be reality. I'm making that up because I for one, do not want to experience any of my nightmares over again, much less live in one. However, I've had some really amazing dreams that I'd re-live in a heartbeat. So what if we still had reality, but we could teleport into our dreams after we've had them and live them out for a little while until we got our fill or wanted to return to reality. Hopefully we'd never lose sight of our dreams and reality by switching in and out of them. Or what if the good dreams we had just came true. That dream you had about getting that promotion and moving to Hawaii or maybe it was a dream about being pregnant and finally having a baby. One dream of mine for example that I wish had come true was a dream where I got a job traveling the world and doing photography. Another dream I had recently was that I got a horse. If either of those things happened, I'd be ecstatic.

What if everyone looked the same? Instead of being judged by our looks, people would be judged for who they are. People wouldn't waste so much time on their hair, their bodies, or their wardrobes. we wouldn't be able to look down on people for their size, weight, or style. Our world would be much less materialistic. We would get to know people beyond the surface and have no reason not to like them or judge them from afar. Society today is so caught up in looks that it blows my mind. I think a lot of us have become numb to this and even contributed to it. I wish we weren't immune to the way we treat people and that we made more of an effort to accept those who don't fit in according to society's standards. You might be the cool kid, but what if you weren't? We all know what it feels like to be an outcast in one way or another and why would we ever wish that upon someone else? I feel like if we were all the same, we would accept people for who they are and the world would be a much more loving, compassionate, and accepting place.

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