If Only
"What would you do if you
Just one little pill in your hand
That changed around all you could be
That helped you forget what you've seen
If all you've ever wanted, was to let go..."
(The Calling, if you're interested)
There are a lot of things I wish were different... everything from the leaderships of the world and the tendencies of humanity down to the hair that grows (or maybe just lives) on my head. Would change them if I could? If I could change just one thing, what would it be? What would you change if you had just one wish? I'd like to think I'd be noble and change something for the good of all humanity. Undo the last few years of hugely destabilising crusades against some fictitious "axis of evil" and the misdirected "morals" of western administrations. I think I'd be very tempted to change something a great deal more selfish.
To quote another song on the same album
"and if somehow fate were in my hands
Would it be enough to understand
Why wee feel lost in a world so small
If only love could find us all..."
Just one little pill in your hand
That changed around all you could be
That helped you forget what you've seen
If all you've ever wanted, was to let go..."
(The Calling, if you're interested)
There are a lot of things I wish were different... everything from the leaderships of the world and the tendencies of humanity down to the hair that grows (or maybe just lives) on my head. Would change them if I could? If I could change just one thing, what would it be? What would you change if you had just one wish? I'd like to think I'd be noble and change something for the good of all humanity. Undo the last few years of hugely destabilising crusades against some fictitious "axis of evil" and the misdirected "morals" of western administrations. I think I'd be very tempted to change something a great deal more selfish.
To quote another song on the same album
"and if somehow fate were in my hands
Would it be enough to understand
Why wee feel lost in a world so small
If only love could find us all..."
posted by Sarum at
Monday, July 05, 2004
1 Comments:
Thinking slightly less altruistically, I'd like to see what would have happened if, at various points in life, I'd made slightly (or very) different choices - rerunning the Butterfly Effect you might call it.
E.g. I only started down the path of becoming an actuary because I was slightly late on the first day for a temp job which they'd double-booked. If I'd been the first one there, I'd have kept the job, not got the replacement one I did get in the life office down the road, and I doubt I'd be typing this here to you today.
If I was being noble about things, I'd probably go for making everyone always take the long view into account - most of the problems I see in the world come about because people aren't thinking long-term enough.
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