Thanks to a suggestion from Sammanthia, I thought I would check out Sprite’s Keeper. Jennifer posts a new topic every week and asks her readers to write about it.

OK, I’m going to give this one a shot. Not sure quite where it will lead. The topic this week is simply: “What if?”

If you’ve been around my blog a little while, you may know that I’m a bit of a movie nut. And I lean toward sci fi and action movies. Still, there is one movie that is pretty much the penultimate “What If” movie, and that would be “It’s a Wonderful Life.” (and no, I don’t really know what ‘penultimate’ means, it just kinda jumped out there)

What if I had never been born? How would the people I know be affected?

Now, I’m not nearly deep enough to write about not being born, but this is pretty close:

1982. New Year’s Eve party at Amy’s house. Senior in high school. And I met a girl.

I didn’t realize it at that moment, but I should have known – she would change my life. It was at least as important as being born.

We were set up on a date a few months later, then went to Senior Prom, and by the following Christmas we were engaged. A few years later we were married, and, well, the rest is history.

What if we had never met? What if she had fallen for somebody else? That is a scary question, for me. I’m sure things would have worked out well for her, but I don’t think I would have fared well at all. The bad thing is that on a daily basis, I take it for granted that this happened at all; I take it for granted that we’re together still, when almost daily I find that other folks I knew (and some from the same party) have married and divorced, or had serious health issues. We are a couple of the lucky ones.

Now what if I don’t get my act together now?