Most people I have seen answer this question will always go for money first. Then some might even say they want the world to be peaceful because they want to look generous. Maybe when I was small, I would have easily gone for money too not until I had to take a deeper look at the question to find the honest one underneath.
I wished for just two hours with my grandmother before she passed on some years ago. Not to tell her goodbye. I already had that version of that. But I would go back to ask her one specific question I wish I was too foolish and too young to think of while she was still alive.
She was a trader in her time. And she built something from nothing, especially when things were very hard In her time than it sounds today. No big connection, she didn't even use internet like we are using today, no grant from the government or family money that was kept somewhere. No one was behind her.
Just dedication and decision that I am yet to wrap my head around. Though I was still very young then, but I watched and saw a part of her business but I didn't see the interior. What motivated her to keep pushing forward during those moments when almost nothing worked and the economy was hard. What doubt felt like for her and how did she overcome some obstacles without proper or lemme say any mentorship.
This question always sometimes cross my mind. And I am at the age where I am faced with some similar challenges. A cross road and I am building and going with no map and no one who has actually threaded on this specific route I am on. Money can be easily rebuilt, but conversation cannot. And this is something simpler that the genie might probably expect.
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