Paranormal
I'd like to... quit my job and open up a bar. It won't be one of those regular bars or clubs where you go with your friends for a nice, relaxing time and end up having to yell at each other, over and over again the two most common words that are screamed out all over the world every night in bars: "Huh...? What?!"
Or the type of bar or club where the noise pollution they spew off as music tears your eardrums apart and give you an entirely new audio perspective on life in general by reducing all your inane conversations to a series of incoherent muffles, which isn't much different from your regular conversations in the first place. That is, if you frequent night clubs.
"Dude! Great party last night."
*BOOM BOOM BOOM*
"umfmf fffhmm mfhmmmff"
*BOOM BOOM BOOM*
"Uh... yeah man."
*BOOM BOOM BOOM*
"Mmfghmhgf mm."
*BOOM BOOM BOOM*
"Huh...? What?!"
*BOOM BOOM BOOM*
And that's the morning after.
No, my bar would be just right. A delectable mesh of good music playing constantly, not too loud, but not inaudible either. Of course, the phrase good music automatically excludes a lot of today's crap being spit at you on MTV and VH1, the kinds of Britney Spears and Beyonce. I'm talking about music which you can listen to anytime, even 10 years after it was made. The music would be something of an interlude in the conversations among the casual, relaxed customers. No uptight families would be there, you know them... the ones who go to a restaurant with the sole purpose of creating a hue and cry over some small mistake that the waiter makes, or to find something lacking in the meals. We want people who know how to appreciate the smaller things in life.
I'd like to... join NASA and become the first man on Mars. The experience of setting foot on a distant world, where you are the only human, to look upon billions of years of emptiness, lifelessness (as of now) and silence, that would be something entirely different. A void which would make you think of Earth and how it may have been billions of years ago. And to finally give some tangibility to the enigma that is the Red Planet, which has fascinated us ever since it was discovered and the canals 'sighted'.
And of course, to wonder, despite all evidence against it, whether a group of Martians are behind some rocky cliff monitoring us, wondering who we are and what we wanted from their dusty plains. Being on Mars would also give one the sense of what a superhero feels like up in the air. Or it could give one the sense of timelessness, floating back to the ground after a powerful almost-gravityless jump into the pink skies of Mars as its citizens prepare to take aim...
I'd like to... be a rock star. Not just any rock star, but a rock star that created real music. I don't like the music that's coming out nowadays, it's a cacophony of cosmetics mixed with pure bullshit and ringing cash registers propagated by the millions of sheep who couldn't think for themselves even if MTV asked them to, because music has now turned into something to listen to as you watch the videos. I'm talking real music that people could appreciate 30 years from now and enjoy. And perhaps, while I'm at it, achieve fame on the scales attained by Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley and U2. (And some day, the Goo Goo Dolls.) I want to write music with lyrics and soul, something that people would find meaning in, not something that one would use to praise someone's booty with. A fan buying the music should feel that the money spent on it was worth every micropenny.
I'd like to... discover The Truth. To all things paranormal and why the exist, and to the littler things such as where does that sock go from the dryer. And The eternal question which has been asked since questions could be asked. Discover it, and prove it, no matter what it was: That we are living in something akin to a Matrix, or that we are one of several thousand planets with life on it, or that there exists an infinite multiverse in which our universe exists, and bringing out the probability of our existence to 1, or that we are nothing but the figments of imaginations of a group of mentally retarded aliens in some jail cell in a real planet in a real universe outside this one. Whatever it may be, it would help to put an end once and for all to the inane bickering of self appointed authorities on the matter. And we'd have no more religious nutters, thank god (ha!). I imagine that it would also give us as humans a new perspective on the universe, our existence and give us a direction to head in instead of accepting what we're supposed to do.
I'd like to... travel. Just travel to every location that catches my fancy, and travel my entire life. It will give me the chance to see all the cultures, the way different people live, eat, work and think. And I can visit every beautiful, ugly, humorous and mysterious place there is. Mythological/mysterious places are on the top of my list, such as the Incan/Mayan/Aztec ruins in Latin America and South America, the pyramids and temples in Egypt, ruins in China and Mongolia, India, Europe, with a little of the Easter Islands and Polynesia. There's also the jungles of Central Africa, the polar deserts of Antarctica, and other intriguing places like the Sahara, Scandinavia, Siberia, Australian Outbacks and Northern Canada where the auroras beckon you.
I'd like to... travel back in time and see what really happened. The goodness of those we call evil and the flaws of those we call good. I'd like to see Egypt, the Incans, Aztecs, Mongolians, Indians, Mayans, Vikings and Native Americans as they were and, if it existed, Mu and Atlantis. I want to see whether they were as advanced as we think they were, what technologies existed and were eventually lost to the prevalent ignorance over time. I can then see what events cumulated into the mythologies and holy books of today. And whether the dinosaurs were as they've been shown to us in Jurassic Park. What did people do before the wheel was invented? How did they bear the heat without ACs, TV and MP3s?
