| I think it's important to take a good look at your life and ask yourself some crucial "what if" questions. My five-year old daughter often asks me these kind of hypothetical questions and they really make me think... Our conversations go something like this: "Mommy, what if you and I were both dogs?" "What kind of dogs are we?" "Poodles, and you were a big poodle that smelled bad because you never got a bath." "Hmmm...well, I'd still want to snuggle you at night." "But you can't. I have a different owner and I get baths. And don't forget, you smell bad." You really get to know what a person is like in the world of the hypothetical. Yesterday, I asked my kids... "Imagine that you are a big frog and you're really hungry. You haven't eaten anything for days and your family members are flies. Which of us would you eat first?" My son immediately answered, "I'd eat you, mom." Wounded, I asked him why I'd been eliminated so quickly. "Because you're a woman and women are at the bottom of the food chain. Everyone knows that!" Like I said, you really get to know a person. I encourage you to create this kind of dialogue in your home. The answers you get might surprise you. In this case, every family member, except my oldest daughter, said I'd be the first to go. She said she'd eat her brother first for his food chain comment...then she'd eat me. |
| Hypothetical Questions... |
| Sometimes, it's interesting to look at history and ask some hypothetical questions. What if the horrible had never happened? Or What if the awesome had never been? (This will probably make a few of you mad...sorry...hehe) |
| what might life be like today...? if Columbus had sailed off the end of the earth? if Native Americans had had "no trespassing" signs? if Native Americans had declined to sell us land, and instead told us we could live on reservations? if Africans had had "no trespassing" signs? if women had granted men the right to vote? if Johnny would have named himself Johnny Peach Pit or Johnny Eggplant or Johnny Banana Tree...and since bananas don't grow here, he'd have given up in disgust, ever to be remembered as Johnny Pot-head? if Noah had killed a fly...and a mosquito? Don't you wish? if Hitler had been born a Jew? if gas prices weren't so ridiculously high? if there hadn't been a stock market crash in 1929? if the Wright brothers had been afraid of heights? if Jesus Christ really had been just a prophet? What hope would you have? if dinosaurs weren't extinct? if no one had invented coffee? Why would you even want to get out of bed? if no one had invented sliced bread? if Eve liked to kill snakes? That should be enough questions to get you started. Have a nice week...and keep thinking outside the box. |
| Posted: No Trespassing FYI: Our definition of a "savage" is someone who steals land. |
| Posted: No Trespassing FYI: Our definition of "uncivilized" is someone who steals people. |
