Wouldn't It Be Nice If.....

.....I attracted such a large reader base to my way-too-honest blog, and it was so popular, that I could get syndicated and make a living off my exceptionally creative and gut-wrenchingly honest writing?

.....I got along wonderfully with both my parents and had the kind of relationship with them that I dream of having with my own kids someday if I am blessed to have a family?

......I won a million dollars? That one is just way too easy to think of....

....I became a completely surrendered man to God and allowed Him to use me as He pleased?

......I was able to take a tour of all the famous WWII battle sites that I've read so much about and of which my imagination has painted so many vivid pictures?

....I got to meet my grandfather whom I never met? Oh, the questions I'd have for him!

.....I got to take a vacation to that awesome looking resort in Bora Bora! And of course, not alone but with a significant other--actually, she'd have to be my wife, because otherwise, there'd be fornication involved. There's no way I could vacation at such a beautiful and romantic location and be celibate at the same time. Well, unless I went with some buddies (my non-gay sounding way of referring to my guy friends), and of course, what fun would that be??

....I could fly a big old B-17, a B-24, a Corsair, a 747, a C-130 Hercules, a KC-135, a B-52, and a DC-3? Note: I'm not 100% on every one of those plane names, but I know which ones I'm talking about.

....I met a cute little dark-haired chickie that met all my desires for a mate?

.....oh, and I guess I should add that I met her requirements as well. Otherwise, if she was not interested in me, it'd just be torture meeting her in the first place.

......God took me on a trip through the universe so I could see firsthand his awesome handiwork?

....all those stupid stocks and options I've traded over the last few years on Scottrade actually made me money instead of losing me an arm and a leg?

.....I had multiple lives and I could experience some crazy death-defying stunts without fear of death? I know it sounds really sick and morbid, but I'd like to see what it was like to go down in a bomber during WWII, go down in an old WWII U-Boat, die fighting on the Eastern Front, perform crazy aerobatic tricks, climb Mt. Everest or some other formidable, yet less-littered mountain, play professional football, walk into a furnace like the 3 guys in the Bible did, fight a lion or tiger in the Coliseum, go face-to-face with a bear in the woods.....that's enough deaths I think.

....okay, so I've reread several of these Wouldn't-it-be-nice-ifs and "nice" really doesn't fit the bill for some of them. Perhaps, "Wouldn't it be awesome, exciting, amazing, or wonderful" would be more appropriate for some of them.

.....I was able to go to sleep just like that when I wanted to?

....I was also able to wake up just like that when I wanted to or needed to?

......I could live my life over again, knowing not just what I know now, but also what I'll know during the course of my whole life, as well as what others know and will know, and while I'm at it, whatever God knows as well! That's so all-encompassing, it almost doesn't sound like fun. As if there'd be no challenge involved in it. Of course, I've got a feeling even with all that knowledge and wisdom, I'd still manage to botch some things up and make life interesting to say the least.

.....I could see and hold my Little Lina and raise her. I'm sorry Gladys if you are reading this. I don't mean to hurt you. I know we both wish we had her and could raise her together. I'm just glad her little life touched us for as long as she did, and that we will meet her and be with her one day soon.

....I could be on "Survivor."

.....I could live on a deserted, tropical island for a while, preferably Tarawa in the Gilberts, and live off of island fruit, good beer, good cheese and good bread. Yum Yum!!

.....I could eat Mexican and chili more often than I do?

.....I had more muscles than I do? Okay, I guess more is the incorrect terminology. Same muscles I already have, but bigger and stronger?

.....I had a few awesome homes like the ones shown in the "Lord of the Rings" movies? Did you ever notice how awesome those tree houses were that the elves lived in??? Or that cool underground house Bilbo Baggins lived in?? Or almost as cool would be living in one of those Cold-War era missile silos that has been converted into a cool underground home!! Yeah Buddy!

......I knew how to and had the confidence to go up and just meet any chick that caught my eye?

......they liked me when I met them?

.......I had a wonderful wife and a whole slew of kids?

.....I could go to sleep right now? Did I mention this one already?

Okay, I'm pretty sure I've just about run this blog-topic into the ground, both for your eyes and my typing hands. Goodnight.