WHAT IF

What if a question about what could happen or what could have happened in a particular situation if something was or had been different:

It is a question that is meant to jog your mind of the endless possibilities, imaginability, conceivability or plausibility of events that would occur if a prior event was to be done different. Most of the time the end results might scare you to even think about them but you know what, some things are inevitable.

So some time back I went through two ordeals that made me think so hard that I had to come up with this blog post to also make you jog your mind. The first incident involved my mum. She had been admitted to hospital (the first time ever) and we kept going to visit her every day, one day I had just left the hospital and was too tired I just wanted to get home and rest. Just when I opened my house my mum calls me and tells me to bring her, her sweater. In my mind I came up with so many excuses that I would give her so as not to go back all that way. But something struck my mind and I was stuck at ‘what if?’ What if I go tomorrow and am told she is gone? What if cold got the better of her? What if she knew she was going and had some info for me? I immediately went back, took her the sweater she requested. 

Secondly a friend of mine had a sick patient who had lost a lot of blood and wanted donors, I had promised to go but got so busy that told myself that I would go the following day very early. The following day AGAIN I told myself after church am heading straight to the hospital. So after church service I call to get direction of where am supposed to actually go, which hospital. And the news that I got rendered me speechless. She had actually gone. Now I sat in the car and asked myself lots of What if question. What if I had gone yesterday as promised? Would things have turned out different. 

Now my main AIM is to let you know if you have the opportunity to do something now, go ahead and do it. Don’t wait for tomorrow to tell us, you had the opportunity to change fate but you procrastinated it. Below is a few what if scenarios that can make you rethink if you were about to postpone something that you could do today.

So What If

        1.         Today was your last day…

        2.       Your mum asks you to visit but you decide to go the following day so that you can at least  you can buy her something when you visit, but that next day never comes.

        3.       You finally open up to your crush and she texts you back but you decide to read it the morning only to realise she was telling you to open the door she is outside.

        4.       The pastor calls for guys to get saved and you decide you will go the next time, only for you to find out that that was judgement day.

        5.       You keep waiting for the perfect time/moment to propose and she gets tired of waiting and another guy seizes the opportunity.

       6.       You keep telling yourself she can’t find better than you only to realize you were the frog she had to kiss before she finds prince charming.

       7.       You don’t answer a new number calling thinking its ‘TALA’ or ‘BRANCH’ calling to claim their depts. Only to realize it was the HR from the company you had applied to get a job but now the chance is gone since they called you three times and you never picked.

       8.       You thought grass was greener on the other side only to realize it was more greener on the side you were before but now it’s too late to turn back since you already moved to that other side. 

      9.       You aborted that child just because he refused to take up responsibility and you were not ready to raise a kid by yourself. Only to realize that was supposed to be the only kid you were to have.

     10.   You keep pushing him/her away and they keep staying but finally they go and they end up happier than they were with you.

Life is full of ups and downs, and surprises, when you think you have everything figured out that’s when life hits you the most. Left, right and center. Don’t be too casual and too comfortable. Anticipate, think, prepare. Only this way, you will be able to tackle anything that comes your way. Because you know what…… The future is not certain.