You know, I haven't thought much about things like this. Maybe when I was younger, but I've become very good at living with less, to where it's become an all I know, and I've made quite a comfortable life for myself.
Hmmmm... So if I could have anything.. and be anything.. what would I do????
Gimme a minute to think about this one....
First of all, I'd make a large ranch appear somewhere on the coast. Hmm... how about around Big Sur California? There would be lots of animals. Horses... I'd want a Pinto just like the horse I owned as a child. I'd want Shetland Ponies... for no other reason than to braid their hair.
The house would be made of cob, with cool designs sculpted into the walls, and a real bottle wall (have you seen those? where they put bottles inside of jars and put them into the mud wall so that light comes through?) I'd have maids, and cooks, and a real laundress, but it wouldn't be formal at all.
I'd want a wood stove that you can cook on top of, that has an oven next to the firebox just for fun.
I'd want goats, and chickens, and ducks, and hmm.. I'd want big fat happy cows slogging around in the mud, like the ones I've seen at a ranch I used to visit many years ago in Gold Hill (the happiest cows I've ever seen). But not too many. I only want maybe two or three as pets.
I want a good reliable car. A big one. Maybe a van or truck so I can sleep in the back on road trips. Or you know what.. An RV would be nice too.
I'd want to be up on a cliff over the ocean, with my own staircase that goes down to a beach with big rocks sticking out of the water. There would be barrier islands way out at sea, so the waves would be high enough to surf in, but calm enough to snorkel in.
The water would be blue and warm, and the sand pure white, like in Florida on the Gulf Coast.
There would be beach grass. And sea lions, and harbor seals, and sometimes herds of elk on the beach. And my own little tidepool with starfish and sea anemones, and hermit crabs.
I would retire every member of my family with twice the amount of money they would ever want or need for the rest of their lives.
I would snap my fingers and end cancer, HIV, polio, world hunger, war, child slavery, etc.
I would end all the covid lockdowns and make it so Covid never existed.
I would travel the world with a really cute guy in a big yacht. Not too big, but not cramped either. I want multiple floors, and a big bedroom, and a full kitchen staff.... and a swimming pool on deck. Yes.
And my yacht would be followed wherever I go by my own pod of dolphins, because, well, It's my fantasy. And I like dolphins.
I'd give to anyone who asked, double what they asked for.
It would never get too hot or too cold, even when it snowed. The clouds would be big cumulonimbus and I'd watch them grow and change.
And I'd live happily ever after, with the people I loved most, and ride horses every day. And there would be rainbows every day, and fog in the mornings. And I'd watch hot air balloons drift over the hills every morning as I sat on the porch with my tea.
