What if

A “what if”, to me, is alike a glittery & mystical unicorn.

Imaginary. Illusive.

Tickling my mind enough to leave my heart salivating to experience it:

What if we could record our core memories & relive them,

I wonder, while wiping the dust off my grade-9 class photograph.

(Would that make moments mercifully immortal or meaningless, then?)

In a world full of strangers (read: potential BFFs you haven’t met yet)

What if maps, instead of helping us discover locations, led us right to our soul mates?

What if we were introduced only to people “universe-approved” for us?

(Would we be aptly pampered or needlessly shielded, then?)

What if we got extra ‘lives’ like those in a game, for each time we goofed up & wanted to escape consequences?

Oh, what if consequences never existed?

What if life was just an adventure renounced from responsibilities

With the main objective of ‘living life’ to the fullest. No deadlines. No wringing decisions.

Just a bold & riveting bucket list to get through.

Instantly noticing my heaping to-do list, I ask myself

What if we could control time?

Pause it, just till I gather myself, dust myself up?

Pause it, to have the liberty to do everything I want?

Could time have the compassion to fly at our worst moments and crawl at our best?

While being human comes with the privilege of emotions but no discretion in experiencing them,

What if we could detach ourselves from feelings, in a while?

Or perhaps buy the feelings and experiences we desire?

(Would that fix the world or make it hollow?)

What if we could choose the traits we possess instead of developing them?

Build ourselves much like the characters we customize in a game.

What if each of us had superpowers?

(Would the world be self-serving or altruistic?)

While I map a plan for myself, confounded

I hopelessly sigh wondering,

What if we had a manual to guide us through life?

(Would life be more productive or less meaningful, then?)

The grass is always greener on the other side

So, what if we could briefly experience the situations we so covertly eye?

To really know what it’s like- the good and bad.

(Would that effectively teach us to value what we currently have?)

As a manager-turned-actor expressed (shout-out to all The Office fans):

I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.

What if you had this compass in life?

(Would it change the way you live? Should it change anything?)

Well, what if you had the chance of doing it all over again?

(Would you do it the same?)

As idealized and magical as it seems- much alike our unicorn-

Just what if, we could preview these what ifs?

The thought leaves me in awe :)