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If I Had A Couple Million Dollars

So my mom was telling me after work how she saw one of her dad's friends today.  She said it made her miss her parents even more than she usually does every day.

She has belongings in the house to remind her.  And in the very near future she and her sis will finally have what's left of the original cash assets.  A far cry from what her dad had initially... but it's still fairly substantial on the wealth scale, at least to me it is, I know there are people that have lots more... but hey... I wouldn't complain if I had a couple million coming my way!

What happened to the original stuff is a story for another time.  Or maybe a story that I might never tell.  Or maybe who cares anyways... because life is like that... sometimes you just get part of what was in the past... even if it's a very tiny piece of what used to be.

Pieces of the past.  Sometimes its a small memory of someone instead of the person standing before you.

It reminded me if a stupid chain email letter I got one time from another of my mom's friends several years ago.  At the time I thought it was annoying.  But since he passed away a couple years ago, well, heck I'd give the world to see an email from that guy right about now.

Funny how the stuff we find annoying at the time... we long for later on in life.

The email was about have every day is a new gift of a day and using each day to reset and live again new.  To take the good things from the previous day into the new day.  And let the bad stuff fall to the wayside.  Something like that.  I didn't keep the forward... but right now I wish I had.

Thinking of all that made me think about one of my all time favorite songs "If I Had A Million Dollars" by The Barenaked Ladies.  But instead I was thinking... what if you had a million other things... What other kinds of things could you have besides a million dollars...

What if my mom had a million more days with her dad.

Or if I had a million more days hanging out with her.

Or if I had a million more chain emails from a million friends from the past.

Or a million more nights on the couch with friends.  Playing a million board games... or...

Having a million drinks.  (Maybe not... imagine that hangover)

A million hugs.

A million kisses.

A million times to say I love you to someone.  To say I love you to a family member, or a friend.  Or to say I love you to a significant other.

A million times to give thanks.  To give thanks to the good things in our lives, and the bad for teaching us lessons.

Or maybe a million sunny days with a million beach trips.

Millions of songs if you love music.

Millions of chances to hang out with your cat.  Or your dog.

Millions of hours of television.  Or watching millions of movies.  Or reading a million books.

A million songs.  Or, a million times to listen to a few of your favorite songs.  Or the same song over and over again on repeat a million times.

Or a million of whatever it is you love or are passionate about.

A million laughs.  A million laughs with family, friends, lovers.

I guess I could probably list a million things here...

My thing is... most people have money on their minds.  When there are so many other wonderful things in this life to have on the mind.  So many millions of things that most of us will never have millions of times... because it's all so short.  It's all so limited... and then you're left to relive the memory of it all a million times... longing for that one last time you wish could have been a million last times.