Sometimes I Ponder

What would the world be like if Hitler was accepted into art school.

Then my mind starts to wander to other potential things.

If the north and south never fought it out in the civil war; if America and Europe the revolutionary war. Or perhaps just a different ending.

What if we knew there were no WMDs and it was all a sham?

What if we never had the dark ages, the witch hunts, the crusades?

How different would our lives be if these things had never been engaged? Would it be better? Or worse? Perhaps a little of both. But at least I would be able to sleep at night not pondering the what ifs of the past.