I saw this bumper sticker in the parking lot yesterday while I was Contributing to the downfall of American Unions, i.e., shopping at WalMart. I also hate that I shopped at WalMart, trust me. But it happened. That’s not the point of the story.

For the briefest of moments when I saw that bumper sticker, I thought it read, “Pray for Unicorns.”  Now, I know this bumper sticker addresses and extremely volatile subject in real life, but for a split second it was about Praying For Unicorns.  For a nanosecond, I lived in a world where people were so passionate about unicorns they implored you to pray for them on the bumpers of their Ford Focuses.

Given the choice, that’s the world I would rather live in.

It’s not that I am particularly passionate about unicorns – I mean, I think they probably have some magical powers and I think when you rub them a genie appears and grants you three wishes, so that’s cool.  But I like the idea of living in a whimsical world where unicorns are that important.

Here’s a partial list of other things I wish would make people passionate enough to vandalize their own vehicles with stickers in support:

Pray for a world where guac isn’t extra

Pray for a TV remote that only has three buttons but still somehow does everything you want

Pray for dogs that can understand English perfectly and are more interesting to talk to than humans

Pray for a third season of True Detective and we all pretend the second season wasn’t a thing

Pray for the ability to eat bread without spending the day in the bathroom (you think this is just for me, but there are a lot of people who would be on board with this prayer)

Pray for your wife to remember not to set the cap to a jar on top of the jar without tightening it so the next person that comes by picks it up by the lid and it drops and shatters/spills all over the floor

 

These seem like prayers for a world we can all live in.  Maybe we need to start making it happen.