Now that I have you thinking about
the importance of asking why, let’s consider another very important question.
What if?
What if asking why led you to
consider new and uncharted possibilities?
What if you realized some of those
possibilities could be just the road you need to take?
What if you took a chance?
What if that chance you took changed
your life, as well as the lives of your family members?
What if it was hard and required a
lot of sacrifice?
What if that hard thing meant good
progress in the future?
What if that progress was something
that taught your children or other loved ones about the importance of following
their dreams?
What if they took that lesson and did
something big?
What if your choices rippled on for
generations?
Or
What if that chance wasn’t right for
you, but you learned from it anyway?
What if that wrong choice led you to
another choice that could be the right one?
What if you learned a lot of
important lessons along the way?
What if your loved ones saw you try
and knew that your journey made you who you are?
What if your future, and theirs, was
better because you took a chance on the possibility of what if?
Progress. Pass it on.
**For writers: What if this question created an entire story.
Conflict, character arcs, beginning, middle, end—all thrive on this question.
Because in the world of fiction, reality stems from possibility. It’s how good stories are created.
