thought experiment

in a thought experiment you closed your eyes. you imagined a life 15, 20 years from now. a normal life, adult, parental, a couple kids, house, front lawn, dog or maybe a cat, a job that you don’t totally love, a wife that you sometimes feel regret towards. you imagined being that future version of yourself reflecting back on where you are now. you imagined remembering the pink house and chairs on the front porch, the cracking plaster, the mice scurrying through the ceiling as you lay trying to fall asleep, the thrift store mugs, the stacks of dirty dishes, wine stains on the furniture and beer cans in the bedrooms, ice cream for breakfast and pancakes for dinner, dust on the floor, dust on the stairs, dust in our eyes. and the future version of yourself reflecting on it all in a thought experiment in your mind thought, just one day, i want to go back for and relive it for just one day, for just one day.

“some day this house will burn down and we’ll be long gone by then”