Considering the “What If?”
What if we all had a story in us that needed to be told, but we couldn’t find the words to tell it? What if we never tried?
What if we wanted to do or say something that didn’t exist yet, how could we even begin to describe what it might be?
What if it’s a feeling that we didn’t know how to describe? Does that really mean that such a feeling doesn’t exist or that others might not also be experiencing the same thing?
What if that word or topic we are searching for existed somewhere, but we just didn’t know where to find it? Or perhaps it’s a “Buzzword of the Year”, for the year 2012?
What if we could convey just enough of an idea to generate some spark of life to ignite whatever it needed to survive and then grow? [This isn’t starting to sound a bit science-fiction-y is it?]
What if we tried to explain our elusive something and no one we told “gets” it? What if we can’t fully grasp the sentiment ourselves, but we know there’s something there (not in the spooky or spiritual kind of way), but in the “it’s-at-the-tip-of-my-tongue” kind of way?
What if it’s an unspoken good idea that dies a lonely death? Or perhaps it turns out to be a bad idea that we’ve saved ourselves a ton of time and heartache not pursuing?
What if we hold off pursuing that elusive idea that someone else is also coincidentally and concurrently being tickled to pursue, too? What if he gets there first and validates our urges a bit too late for us to own them exclusively? What if we had enough of a different angle on that same sentiment to successfully pursue it anyway?
What if this unknown unpredictable pursuit consumed all our time and we achieved our wildest dreams pursuing it? What if we sacrificed everything for nothing? What if we did nothing and achieved that same nothing, would that be the same?
What if it wasn’t an All or Nothing proposition?
What if I hadn’t written this post? What if no one reads this? What if everyone reads this? What if just the right person reads this? What if I just felt better getting these words out on paper?
What if I stopped asking “what if”? What if I never considered “what if”?
