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What if?

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What if?

Often we say those two words after something has or hasn’t happened. ‘What if I had got up earlier?’, ‘What if I had only said….’, ‘What if we had spent more time listening to her’, ‘What if….’.

The fact is we didn’t get up earlier and we were late, we didn’t say that thing and we missed out, we didn’t listen to someone before it was too late.

We are always analysing the past and playing out scenarios in our heads to see how things could have played out differently. It is a waste of time, as it’s an outcome you can’t alter.

Rather than ‘what if…?’ we decided to say ‘what can I do to change?’.

Changing ourselves is the key to better future outcomes and a good deal less of ‘what if?’.

Imagine

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We are as humans all bestowed with the a gift – imagination.

This is a gift that we have truly taken for granted and lost the realisation of just how monumentally important it is to our very survival.

Yet the system strives hard to get us to suppress that gift, it scares the system, as if we were all to use it to it’s full potential, well we might just imagine a world without the people who control us. We might just imagine a world where we do not need a tiny few controlling and manipulating us.

If it was not for imagination, the human race would still be hunter/gatherers. We have dared to imagine so many things, yet here we are in the 21st century and so few of us now dare to imagine better, different, new.

Fear and conditioning (sounds like a bad shampoo) have paralysed us from using our imaginations. We have become so frightened of others judging us, so afraid of ridicule and so lacking in adventure. We live in fear of all the rules and regulations.

If the human race does not imagine, then the human race will die.