What would you do...?

"What would you do for a Klondike Bar?" was the slogan of an ice cream bar, manufactured by Good Humor/Breyers. The advertising campaign generally showed people doing ridiculous things to get their hands on the ice cream. We ask ourselves, "What you do if you won a million dollars?" We think up all sorts of scenarios that would allegedly make us happy. We then smile with the realization that this dream may never happen. Meat Loaf, born Michael Lee Aday, sings, "I would do anything for love, but I won't do that." It is only until he gets near the end of the song, when the female vocalist accompanying him asks specific questions, that we realize what THAT is.

The question remains "What would you do…?" We can't really say until we've been thrust into that position. We can ponder, dream and conjecture, but we really don't know. We can prepare for emergencies, disasters, and misfortunes to forewarn or give us an idea as to what to expect but until we actually step into that situation it is all "up for grabs."

From the whimsical we get, "To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable," wrote Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900) in his book The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891.

On the pessimistic side we find Dr. Frank Crane (1861–1928) Presbyterian minister, speaker, and columnist: "Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different." Somewhere in the middle lies the true answer; my suggestion is keep thinking, planning and guessing for that is what places us above the rest of God's creation and gives us hope for a better future.

K.