If I were God – A perfect world?
Preamble
You can find god in a cuppa tea or a bowl of soup, certainly in a glass of wine.
You can lose him when you didn’t back that horse you had picked, and then it won!
But he soon returns when you walk on a beach in a warm wind and see white
wave tops dancing. That’s until you recall they look like wild horses and you wish
you’d put even just one dollar on that winner. Then you just say, “Ah well, next time,” and return your full attention to the beauty of the beach.
Ever wonder why there’s so much hell, pain, suffering and illness in the world? Surely if there was a god, he’d do something about it.
So, here we go, if I were God: Every nestling would get to fly even if for only a minute. Every lame creature would get well. All baby birds and other creatures in nests will always be safe and fed. Mothers of all creatures would teach their offspring road rules. Humans would treat creatures as if they were close family. There would be no wanton killing, no eating them, no herding and no silly baby talk.
I would make sure all homeless pets get a home, and all lost pets can return home safely. Anyone bored in their job would suddenly find joy in every moment.
Family members and friends would always speak kindly in an interesting way.
People would be less judgemental and more accepting of others and their different ways.
Happy endings in both entertainment and real life would be realistic, never just all sweetness. Hollywood would create more B/W dreams.
All children would have mums, a good home, food on the table and a warm bed.
Homeless people will have a roof over their heads and warm beds for the rest of time.
All of the above, even just a few would give a better chance for world peace.
In My Perfect World
- Girls will ask boys to dance, and they’ll generously accept.
- No-one will steal because they realise they have everything.
- Everyone will drive at a speed where no birds or hedgehogs are killed, no
nestlings or babies left waiting for mothers never to return.
- There will be no disapproval, just helpfulness if needed. In particular, there will be no telling others how to act in emotional and grieving situations. Disapprovers will get down off their hindlegs – there will be no more hissy fits, no more kilts oot o’ kilter or knickers in a twist, no more mouth puckering, and no more “sphinkter-twitching”.
- All judgemental people would become kindly and smiling to experience how nice not to be judged or how pleasant to feel good of others, especially to know how useless is their judging and po-faced look.
- The hunter would first be hunted to feel what it’s like. If there was a wounded creature and a wounded hunter, I would rescue the creature first.
- I would be able to be in several places at once, if only for good fun!
- The speed limit would be reduced to 50 kms an hour and every bird hit
by vehicles would rise, fly again and crap on the windscreens of the vehicles.
- I would have a “Decade Button” to return me every ten years to age 60, my sixties the best. I would love being stuck in that time warp; other deserving people could have it too. Apart from which, time in old age would move more slowly rather than rushing full speed ahead.
- All the diseases and ailments of the world would be eliminated; the increased
wellness would help the world to be a better place both in happiness and the savings.
- There would be more help for people to enable them to eat better, exercise more, generally feel much better. Prevention before cure.
- A universal basic wage for everyone would be wonderful for supporting people in realising their ambitions and helping their countries. This wage would be similar to the pension for over 65s – not quite sure why all of them receive this when many of them are quite well off. Maybe it’s easier to give the same to everyone.
- Parents would receive daily help to enable them to have quiet time which would give them the strength to act more wisely with consideration.
- Water could be turned into wine, probably on tap, so maybe every household would have a wine tap. It would certainly be on tap in the street.
- Books that you think of would appear instantly in your hands ready to read.
- I would be able to sit and play anything I wanted at the piano; I would be able to play chords easily on the guitar.
- No-one would have to go into hospitals or diagnosed with some awful ailment.
- People would receive international travel allowances but they would have to make presentations on their experiences on return.
- There would be no advertising anywhere, especially on TV. If there had to be, it would be quietly and normally spoken, not shouted at us.
- No-one in the professional media would be allowed to use words like “devastated, traumatised or confronting”; words like “impact, smashed and thrashed” would be banned, and especially the ugly word, “gutted” for “very upset”. The word “frustrated” for “very disappointed or upset” would be gone. There would be no “going forward” for “future”, and no “on the ground” – presenters would be asked to read “there” if some script writers hadn’t got the message already from me on high.
Professional media speakers would use plain language: “possibly” instead of potentially; “influence” or “affect” instead of impact; “many” not multiple. Also there would be no more “check it out”, no more “the reason is because”, no more “Thanks for your time” and presenters will only say, “In Australia” or “Across the Tasman”, and further in general, there will be no more fancy words when a plain one is sufficient.
- There would be no personal commenting dwelling on the negative stuff. People would be hardwired to be positive and keep their horrible thoughts and feelings about others to themselves.
- News reports would be interesting and relevant, not blethers of the likes of “The Mercure Hotel in Wellington caught on fire but no-one was hurt”, or “A building has collapsed in S-E China killing two people”, or a TV item about some sheep on the Champs-Elysées, that latter one mercifully brief!
- People would be helped to save the planet, such as with “mindful gardening”, planting many trees, reducing methane and red meat (I just read something saying if the world cut its red meat consumption by 40% , climate change would be solved.
- All plastic bottles and containers would magically turn into glass, wood or tin. Apart from which they wouldn’t be jettisoned in the first place, littering the roads and parks.
So a heap of stuff to keep this would-be God very busy, but people would be told only once, then I would intervene as positively, pleasantly and helpfully as I could.